Milos' ranking will definitely improve (he is already up three spots based on his Aussie Open performance to date).
As far as how the rankings work, it's basically the following: Points are earned at every tournament during a 52-week stretch, the amount of which are determined by how far players advance in said event. The flip side is that it means the player has more points to defend the following year at the same tournament. Let's say Milos wins his next match and makes the semi-finals. That's great for his ranking and obviously his wallet this year, but it also means he needs to make the semi-finals next year just to defend those ranking points.
Indeed. The points system is really a competition against yourself the previous year. To illustrate, Nadal is in the quarterfinals. He lost in the quarters last year, so if he loses his next match, he stays exactly where he is on points and gains nothing. Nishikori's in the quarters too, but he didn't even play this tournament last year, so he's already gained 360 points.
Meanwhile, Milos is currently live-ranked 14th, with 2250 points. He lost the opening round last year and so is already up 350 points. If he wins the next match, he goes to 2610, which would jump him ahead of Coric and Tsitsipas (unless Tsitsipas also wins).
Shapovalov, meanwhile, gained 45 points on his results last year, because he got to the third round where last year he lost in round 2. He sits 25th in the rankings. However, Tiafoe is in 30th, and is still alive, so if he wins another match he would jump ahead of Shapo and a number of others.
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It is unfortunate because no matter how you make that call, you're screwing someone. If it goes the other way, you're replaying a point that Nishikori clearly had in the bag.
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by the law it should be replayed, linesman called out before Kei hit the ball. it's like if you hit a volley winner but your body hits the net before the 2nd bounce, it's the other guys point even if he's nowhere
near it.
Before the challenge even was shown on the board, the ump said, it's his point either way. That's wrong.
Kei's reaction said it all, he thought he had been screwed by the linesman, which he was because he knows the rule.
listen to the commentary of the full tiebreak
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Thats actually a dumb schedule. There should be a womens match at night as well like on Tuesday cause I'm not sure Kei's going to last long. Night session ticket will be a waste. Who wants to see Kei anyways.
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Greek Yogurt now has a chance to do something monumental: Beat the top three seeds to win a major, and it to be Novak, Rafa and Roger to boot. I would think that automatically makes it the greatest major win ever.
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Greek Yogurt now has a chance to do something monumental: Beat the top three seeds to win a major, and it to be Novak, Rafa and Roger to boot. I would think that automatically makes it the greatest major win ever.
B Agut looked like the better player until he got tired. He looked kind of gaunt and unhealthy.
B Agut looked like the better player until he got tired. He looked kind of gaunt and unhealthy.
RBA was looking good to take the 2nd set up 4-2 but then Greek Yogourt reeled off four straight games to take the set and that was pretty much the match. It was a marathon match that Bautista Agut won against Cilic and he just ran out of gas.
