If it's right the Wikipedia page says the US Open seeds are based on ATP rankings as of August 19th... right after this tournament.
After today Pospisil passed Nieminen (even though he is still alive in the tourney he had 10 points from last year so only gained 35 with his win today... but not a done deal) and Davydenko is defending 90 points so Vasek is ahead of him on paper right now too though again not a done deal. Dogawhatever from Ukraine is out, will pass him with a 2nd round win.
Means with a win tomorrow he would likely move up to 37th. He should win tomorrow, the guy he is playing is ranked 80th and his best surface is clay.
Unfortunately Benneteau (36th) is in the 3rd round already for the first time at a masters this year and was only defending 10 points, will probably not pass him. Dodig (35) and everybody else is out of reach unless Vasek makes the 4th round, which ain't happening as he's got Djokovic in the 3rd.
At 37th will need 5 withdrawals/suspensions to be seeded at the US Open, kind of a big ask as a lot of guys just go, collect their $23,000 for appearing in the first round and 10 points and withdraw even when slightly injured.
Watching him match up against Djokovic would be awesome though, we've seen these kind of measuring sticks for Raonic regularly and I'd love to see it.
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