[chewy]

Ze Zhang is in the final of the Fergana challeger, this is pretty big for the young Chinese dude.

Btw, is he the guy as "Zhe Zhang" mentioned in the list above?

[seulCONTREtous]

yes, great week for him. yep, it's supposed to be Ze Zhang. I'll correct it, so he won't get mixed up with Zhe Zhang, who acutally has a profile at itf too...

[seulCONTREtous]

Chiniese Taipei and India added

[Nathaliia]

Maybe we can also add Qureshi

[seulCONTREtous]

yeah, india and pakistan used to be one country anyway :-) but Qureshi nowadays seems to be focusing on doubles only. he's about to drop out of the top 900 in singles :-)

[gare315]

Originally Posted by seulCONTREtous

Chiniese Taipei and India added

I'm worry about Tsung-Hua's future. He had a 1st round lost Fergana whose draw is weak for a challanger and he did not grab the opportunity to earn more points

[seulCONTREtous]

Originally Posted by Nathaliia

KOREA

Kyu-Tae Im

Age: 29
Height: 185 cm
Current ranking: 271
Career high ranking: 160

Titles 2010: -
Other noteable performances 2010: SF at Manta Challenger, QF at Leon Challenger
Outlook: come back to top 200 by any chance?

Yong-Kyu Lim

Age: 18
Height: ???
Current ranking: 334
Career high ranking: 334

Titles 2010: Busan Challenger
Other noteable performances 2010: QF at Korea F2, QF at Korea F4
Outlook: after the Busan CH win if he keeps the steam he can get to 150 this season

Young-Jun Kim

Age: 30
Height: ???
Current ranking: 359
Career high ranking: 302

Titles 2010: -
Other noteable performances 2010: 2nd round at Busan Challenger
Outlook: past his prime

Woong-Sun Jun

Age: 23
Height: 190 cm
Current ranking: 410
Career high ranking: 230

Titles 2010: -
Other noteable performances 2010: SF at Busan Challenger, SF at Korea F1, QF at Korea F2, QF at Korea F3
Outlook: he is still young so maybe he can reach top 200... he lost many points last season but it means this year he can win back

others:

Soong-Jae Cho

Age: 19
Height: ???
Current ranking: 509
Career high ranking: 488

Titles 2010: -
Other noteable performances 2010: SF at China F1
Outlook: still a young player but no achievements this year; no idea where it might head him

if you don't mind I'll copy and paste this, so we'll have all the info in one post and I can update rankings and noteable performances from time to time...

[seulCONTREtous]

Originally Posted by gare315

I'm worry about Tsung-Hua's future. He had a 1st round lost Fergana whose draw is weak for a challanger and he did not grab the opportunity to earn more points

he's struggling right now. he had much better results last year...

[Nathaliia]

Yes of course, I was gonna suggest it

[seulCONTREtous]

done, thanks

[chewy]

Di Wu and Mao-Xin Gong are in the final in China F6. I can't remember if Futures points are updated every fortnight, but a few players from the list should get a little higher in their rankings soon.

[seulCONTREtous]

2nd futures title for Di Wu in 2010. Some impressive results this week from Wu. For example easy wins against higher ranked players like Lim, Cho and Heliovaara. Wu reached the final without dropping a set.

Other results: F for Gong and SF for Li at China F6; SF for Moriya at Japan F5 ...

Also Christopher Rungkat wins Indonesia F2... perhaps the first Indonesian player to win an ITF title? Well, I don't know about that but I'm quite sure it hasn't happened in the last couple of years...

First post will be updated soon. I think the points from last weeks futures will be added next week.

[chewy]

I didn't even check the other Futures event held in Asia.
Is it worth adding to the first post an "other" catergory? Are their players actively inside top 500 say from Indonesia, Thailand etc.?

[seulCONTREtous]

Thailand currently has one player in the top 500 (Kittipong Wachiramanowong 481) and a couple of players between 600 and 800. Don't know what's going on with Danai Udomchoke he has only played one match this year. He's now ranked 623. Career high ranking was 77.

For Indonesia, there's only Rungkat in the top 1000. He's now rankend 980 but will improve when the points from last weeks victory will be added.

[chewy]

Yeah I wonder whats going on with Udomchoke.
So I guess thats pretty much it with the active players from Asia.