[Smoke944]

Originally Posted by 156mphserve

I think(but I'm not sure) that if you're at a certain ranking you cannot sign up directly for a futures event, but instead you have to get a WC if they want you to play. I think that cutoff is 200 but again I'm not sure.

Same goes for challengers I believe, but obviously that ranking would be way higher, 32 I think it is

50 for challengers

[Gonzil]

Originally Posted by 156mphserve

I think(but I'm not sure) that if you're at a certain ranking you cannot sign up directly for a futures event, but instead you have to get a WC if they want you to play. I think that cutoff is 200 but again I'm not sure.

I checked the ITF rulebook and the cutoff is 150.

[156mphserve]

so I got them both wrong

[Snowwy]

If you are top something, you need a wc to play, see Kohlschreiber this week in Orleans.

[Dudisela75]

Peter retired down 4-1 in the 3rd set of his first round match vs El Mihdawy in Sacramento.

[letshavefun3]

Polansky has withdrawn from next week's Tiburon Challenger.

[Snowwy]

Won his first match of the year 63 75

[misty1]

he actually had a 5-1 lead at one point in the first set and let it get to 5-3, actually having to break for the set if i remember correctly

its not to encouraging(to me anyway) that he got played so tight by a doubles specialist

[Snowwy]

Originally Posted by misty1

he actually had a 5-1 lead at one point in the first set and let it get to 5-3, actually having to break for the set if i remember correctly

its not to encouraging(to me anyway) that he got played so tight by a doubles specialist

Well he really is a top 200 singles player with a career high of 70 that only stopped playing singles because his rank was too low (around 100) compared to his doubles rank. He is not a typical doubles specialist.

[J99]

Originally Posted by Snowwy

Well he really is a top 200 singles player with a career high of 70 that only stopped playing singles because his rank was too low (around 100) compared to his doubles rank. He is not a typical doubles specialist.

Don't you mean high?

[156mphserve]

why would he mean high? His singles rank was too low to get direct entry into atp events which he would be playing in doubles. Therefore he wouldn't get many ranking points because he wouldn't be playing singles as much and therefore his ranking dropped.

How would his ranking be too high?

[J99]

Originally Posted by 156mphserve

why would he mean high? His singles rank was too low to get direct entry into atp events which he would be playing in doubles. Therefore he wouldn't get many ranking points because he wouldn't be playing singles as much and therefore his ranking dropped.

How would his ranking be too high?

Just that top 100 sounded high in comparison, and it's not too low to get DE.

[Snowwy]

Originally Posted by 156mphserve

why would he mean high? His singles rank was too low to get direct entry into atp events which he would be playing in doubles. Therefore he wouldn't get many ranking points because he wouldn't be playing singles as much and therefore his ranking dropped.

How would his ranking be too high?

This is exactly the case.

[Snowwy]

Originally Posted by J99

Just that top 100 sounded high in comparison, and it's not too low to get DE.

Well when you are on the 3rd best doubles team in the world, you play 9 masters and 4 grand slams.

A ranking of around 100 doesn't get you into any of those.

[J99]

Originally Posted by Snowwy

Well when you are on the 3rd best doubles team in the world, you play 9 masters and 4 grand slams.

A ranking of around 100 doesn't get you into any of those.

Really, that's the card you are going to pull, those make up barely any events, top 100 gets you into majors anyway.