Saturday 27 October 2007

BNP Paribas Masters

The race is on and everyone with a chance to get into the year ending is out there to get there final boost only Ranked 5th Roddick is out of this however he qualified already so he is safe. But lets go back to the tournament. Yet again Federer is sky high at No.1 seed and will probably face Moya with Nalbandian losing in the first round but I have lost faith in trusting on any seeds except for the best so I won't name a possible winner there. Berdych and Ferrer are in the next eighth but Ancic is also in that sections so yet again no name will be named, the next eighth will be dominanted by Djokovic and Murray but Djokovic will be victorious there. Next will be Blake and Gasquets section but remember Gasquet lost to Tsonga recently so I think I can only be sure of Blake winning. Robredo leads the fifth eighth which he should win but I am not going to expect it, then we have Baghdatis and Davydenko (Not counting Ljubicic because I don't think he'll get far) Mikhail Youzhny is in Gonzalez and Haas draw which I expect Gonzalez to win in, then we have Nadal but Kiefer maybe a threat!
There are 3 spots left for the year ending but Ferrer is very likely to take one of those spots so only two remain but yet again Gonzalez also look like he'll be able to take the seventh spot so only 8th really remains. From this weeks tournaments we have only Murray, Youzhny, Baghdatis and Karlovic left still standing, the 6th to 8th are still the same If all the four still standing lose in the next round (impossible) then there would not be a significant change in that mostly the top three will have to do enough to get through but if Baghdatis wins his tournament he'll get 313 points which is only 16 points away from Haas so doing well in Paris will get him far, however a more likely options is that Murray and Youzhny have high chances in getting through. They will both face each other in the semis of St.Petersburg so at least one of them will be finalist, Youzhny will have to hope to win for him to have a chance where he'll get 324 points which is still not enough to get him through so he needs to beat the others in Paris to go through but if Murray beats Youzhny he has a minimum score of 328 which will be enough to get him just one point away from Haas which means a better showing than Haas in Paris will get him through but if he wins he'll get 343 points which should see him safely at eigtht spot and if the others don't do anything massive he should get through to the year ends. I'd expect Murray to get to third round whilst some of his opponents will get to the Quatres getting them 25 points which if Murray should win St. Petersburg he should be able to get to the Year Ends. And Whilst I'm at it in Basel Blake Lost! and now Baghdatis and Federer look to be the finalist hopes, Roddick and Gasquet also lost in Lyon! Now no seeds are left in the Semis. However in St. Peresburg it looks like either Murray or Youzhny will win and if that is true it's a good boost for their Race points!

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