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Name me some top 100 players who are notorious point vultures

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#1 · (Edited)
You know what I'm talking about, guys like Ferrer, delPo, Lu, Chardy, Felo, who go around the tour playing in events where the field is extremely weak and basically a shoe-in for free points and a title. And the worst is that these guys do it all year round.

Good examples this year,
-This week, Feliciano Lopez, ranked 17 is playing a Challenger in Colombia, lol. Point whore. He's top 20 player playing in a challenger with only a handful of top 100 players lol and the rest are mugs.

-Ferrer plays in MM events like Auckland, Buenos Aires, Acapulco and so on. What a vulture. He's too good for those events.

-Lu, a top 100 player, is the worst. He's like a top 70 player and only plays challengers throughout the year and outclasses everyone to get easy points. His yearly schedule consists of Slams+Masters Series and challengers lol.
 
#42 ·
Ferrer top 30 player? His worth ethic and consistency is top 1 quality, and he has the slam results to back up his ranking. Absurd statement.
 
#43 · (Edited)
He's up to 87 GS wins. Not too shabby. He, Haas and JCF are all pushing for 100, either this year or next year.

Haas - 98 GS wins, JCF - 99 GS wins,

Haas, 483 wins (17 shy of 500),
JCF, 479 wins (21 shy of 500),
Ferrer, 459 wins (41 shy of 500).
 
#45 ·
All praise Davydenko the father of vulturing but he is not a point-vulture he is a money-vulture :D :D
and again ... he hasn't won that much tournaments ...
 
#46 ·
Almugro is the king of ATP 500 south american clay tournaments.
 
#47 ·
Vulturer of course.
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Ah I see. GSMNadal got there first :eek: (Fail troll attempt buddy:lol:duh)
 
#51 ·
When are you considered to be a point vulturer? I mean yes players like Feliciano Lopez always have a couple of weeks in a year where they reach big points. MS QF/SF / get far in a Slam but never win titles.


Is that kinda player more or less of a point vulturer than for example Raonic who wins 3 titles in 1 1/2 season but never gets to QF of big tournaments?
 
#52 ·
Not sure how Ferrer's ranking is inflated. Comparing his to Tsonga.

Code:
	Ferrer	Tsonga
Slam	1620	1620
ATP1000	1635	1555
ATP500	1025	505
ATP250	750	750
WTF	400	800
Total	5430	5230
That's what their ranking points made up of. If Ferrer wins Bastad, he will gain about 25 pts for his ranking.
 
#56 · (Edited)
All these greedy vultures are preventing up and coming players from having their breakthroughs. What's Isner doing in Newport ? His presence there may have cost Goffin his opening match...knowing that he probably would not win the tournament with the likes of Isner in the draw was probably a demotivating factor and partly responsible for his loss to the Becker in R1...:p

Unfortunately vultures are great for these small tournaments. They put them on the tennis map. I'd pay to see Isner in Newport ;)
 
#57 ·
Ridiculous thread.

Tournaments are there to be entered by anyone.

Anyone who thinks Lopez is playing a Challenger for a boost in ranking points or money is a nutcase.

Next thing will be a thread asking why the top four keep entering slams instead of letting up and coming players have a breakthrough.
 
#61 ·
He is the defending champion and they probably asked him back. Maybe he likes Colombia and would rather be in a Latino city than any of the other 4 less than exciting venues.

Anyway, it is his business.

Lopez should be congratulated for bringing some big-name glamour to a small tournament and probably bringing in the fans.

It is beyond ridiculous to recognize that rankings depend on accumulating points and then criticize players for accumulating points.
 
#64 ·
:scratch: so now certain folks are claiming certain players are 'point vultures' for trying to be as sensible as possible and choose the tournaments they enter for reasons as of being able to score some nice bunch of points & cash?
Can't see anything wrong with that.

Ferrer, for instance, has been a very clever guy for choosing to play Rosmalen where he has a good chance of winning it, along with getting some nice number of practice matches on grass, whereas in either Queens or Halle his chances of getting ousted by a grass-court specialist would have been much higher. Ask Nadal for instance...

If a tournament wants to pay for a (sub-) top player to appear at their MM, and the player thinks it's a sensible idea to indeed go there, I cannot see anything wrong with that.
 
#71 ·
I think it is an age thing. Young people today have such distorted values they can even find fault with players doing what they are supposed to do. Or in MTF, they more probably think the players should have some higher purpose so that they can satisfy the need for idol worship. That's nonsense. To the players it is a job - and who doesn't want the highest salary available? How many people complaining here would say at work 'No, I don't want a Year End bonus, give it to someone else?"
 
#65 ·
We can't all be like Haas beating Berdych, Kohlscreiber and Federer just to win a 250.
 
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#69 ·
Monaco and Granollers are typical vultures as well. A bit of a running trend with the hispanic grinders. The lack of talent within their game forces them to play like walls, therefore they cannot play against the big boys and can only compete in lower league tourneys. The baseline pushing is a massive hindrance to these players if they want to achieve big things in tennis. They have the fight but not the skill.
 
#92 ·
Wait isn't Monaco the one that has 2-2 against Murray and those matches all happened on big stages not 250's, He has also pushed Djokovic in the last few meetings they have had. Kohli has played 5 more tournaments than Monaco, because his more of a grinder than Monaco, Seppi too played even more events this year, his such a pusher. Well, Granollers grunting is even more unbearable than anything i've heard.
 
#78 ·
Ferrer is a bit of one, but I can also understand him playing on tiny clay tourneys because he just likes them/the surface. I actually wish murray would play that swing one of these years so he'd acclimate to clay earlier.
 
#95 ·
:haha:

Murray has so many of those plates, he could serve a 4 course dinner now!
 
#99 ·
That wouldn't qualify as 'vulturing' though, Lorenzi's just a medium/high level Challenger player who actually tries to play ATP events when his ranking allows it. He's not a solid top 100 player really. I don't know but it's just odd to call someone a vulture when he can't even win matches at ATP level consistently. As a matter of fact, kudos to him for actually trying at ATP level when he can get in!
 
#100 ·
There is no such thing as "vulturing." It's a stupid concept invented by frustrated haters who need to get a life instead of laughing at photo montages of players with a vulture's body...

Ferrer plays a lot, so what? He trains on different surfaces by playing weaker tournaments, gets a few points, then goes on to play major events and always holds his rank in them.
If other players are not happy, let them play as much as he does, and as consistently. The players who are ranked above him are usually the same players who beat him in major tournaments, so there is nothing to complain about. Period.
 
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