First Half report
Well, this is the half-way point of the year, at least this week it
has been in my recordkeeping (the week after the completetion of the French
Open). I don't know if I'll be able to produce the half-way player
files this year (probably not) but here at least is the player records.
Matches
Played
Its a come-from-behind victory for Gilles Simon of France who played
in 8 matches this past week by qualifying
for and reaching the finals of the challenger in Furth.
He passes Daniel Gimeno who lost in the first round over at the Sassuolo
challenger and finishes the first half of the season on top with 66 matches
played. Gimeno finishes with 63. Hector Ruiz comes in third
with 57 matches in the books and Jeroen Masson and Michihisa Onoda round
out the top 5 with 53 each. In all, 5 Spaniards finish in the top
10 and only 2 French after the French had gotten off to a fast start.
Winning
Percentage
Roger Federer finishes the first half of the year with the best record,
percentage-wise. Its an amazing feat when you consider that the list
includes all players with much easier competition. Maciej Dilaj of
Poland comes out of nowhere to reach second place. Going back to
2001, Dilaj has only played in events in Poland and was unranked at the
beginning of the Polish futures series this year, his first action of the
year. Completely cold he qualified
into Poland
F1 and made it all the way to the semifinals and then repeated that
last week in Poland
F2. That gives him a 12-2 mark and he is in 2nd place.
Guillermo Coria's close call at the French
Open finals saw him slip a couple of spots to 4th.