Australian Open 2018

[VReddy]

Amazing pairing for us. Divij has a serious shot at a Grand Slam with this pairing I think. Hope they get success at the Aussie Open, would be amazing if they play for a longer time frame.

[PKBasu]

Fantastic news about Divij pairing up with Rajeev Ram for the Australian Open!!
Divij is in the big leagues now!

[sameerph]

@Saneer, do you have any other sources to get doubles entry lists other than MTF?

I got this list from menstennis forums only. There is another site tennisteen.it which gives entry lists but they do not have doubles entry lists.

[sameerph]

Saki Is 10 spots away with the cut now having dropped down to 256.

Now, Saki is only 6 out from qualies. Tomic still to be taken out and 2 more main draw wild cards still to be given. Also there are 6-7 players who are playing ATP qualies/challengers this week. So, they will be taken out if they are still in those draws by Tuesday. Saki should get in if he is going there.

[PKBasu]

Saketh should fly to Australia. He is likely to squeeze into the qualies, and can later play a Challenger or two in Australia. Of course the key will be for him to be fit and ready to play.

[bujilover]

New twist - Tomic now will play AO Q as per this article .

[Rajiv]

Saketh should fly to Australia. He is likely to squeeze into the qualies, and can later play a Challenger or two in Australia. Of course the key will be for him to be fit and ready to play.

Yes the key point here , is he match fit , and now the organisers are tough and keeping a close watch on players who just turn up to collect the paycheck so with these factors it is unlikely he would turn up , because if fully fit and with even half a chance he would have surely flown down just like 3 years ago he did so and missed by a whisker and than spent time watching the Test Match at the MCG .

[PKBasu]

If Tomic wins a round at the Kooyong Classic on Monday/Tuesday, I don’t think he will be allowed to play the AO qualifiers.

[Rajiv]

If Tomic wins a round at the Kooyong Classic on Monday/Tuesday, I don’t think he will be allowed to play the AO qualifiers.

techincally he could still play the qualies , if he is out of Kooyang by Tue a day before the qualies begin
it happened with Somdev , he played the qualies of an Atp in Switzerland and the next day flew to Paris to play the RG qualies

[Rajiv]

It Seems Ram will surely be seeded as the last of 32 seeds for the qualies since Elias Emer has overtaken him by a single spot.
Yuki would be the 11th Seed.
Fingers crossed for a good draw to the Indian quartet.

[sameerph]

Are you sure Yuki would be 11th seed ? He has moved down to #121 in the latest updated ranking list.

[Rajiv]

Yes Sameer did not notice Yuki only defended part of his 32 Chennai points and since then 5 guys have overtaken him.

[sameerph]

Ok, I spent some time and it looks like these will be seeding for qualifiers based on the entry list as of now -

1 Fritz 92
2 Mahut 103
3 Checchinato 106
4 Fratangelo 107
5 Posipisil 108
6 Norrie 112
7 Baena 113
8 Elias 114
9 Bublik 115
10 Hanfman 116
11 Escobedo 117
12 Monterio 118
13 Bemelamans 119
14 Laaksonen 120
15 Bhambri 121
16 Stakhovasky 122
17 Brown 126
18 Menendez 128
19 Basic 129
20 Berretini 130
21 Travalgia 131
22 Hayls 132
23 Otte 133
24 Gombos 134
25 Rudd 137
26 Polanksy 139
27 Ymer 140
28 Ramanathan 141
29 Tomic 142
30 Oftner 143
31 Ignatic 145
32 Olivo 150

So, Yuki is likely to be seeded 15th and RamK 28th. Sliding down a few places in the rankings has not really hurt Yuki. There is not much difference in being 10th/11th seed and 15th seed. He will still not play anyone ranked higher than him in the qualifying draw and RamK will meet someone ranked higher than him only in the final qualifying round.

[Rajiv]

The qualies draw will take place tommorow at 8AM GMT around 1PM India time in the afternoon

[Varma]

If they continue to play in the same form they showed at Pune and before, I will fancy both Yuki's and RamK's chances in this field.

- Varma