Looking at the above tournaments if is clear that some players are using the two tournaments to stop the slide in their performances and rankings., In some cases they are looking at improving their grass court performances , while at the same time they improve and protect their ranking points.
Mallorca - Stefnos Tsitsipas Ranked 5 and under threat by Rune and Rublev
Eastbourne - Taylor Fritz Ranked 9 Earlier this year was ranked 5)
- Alex de Mnaur Ranked 16
_ Tommy Paul Ranked 17
Francisco Cerundolo Ranked 19
Nicolas Jarry Ranked 27
Tomas Martin Etcheverry Ranked 31
There are also some fringe players outside of the top 32 that may increase the rankings to above the no 32 ranked players depending on their performances in the relevant tournaments leading to the need for rankings on Sunday 2 July 2023. The reason why it normally would not have been done is that the ranking points earned this week do not coundt when it comes to Wimbledon seedings.
Another reason why points are urgently need required s that there will be no points to be defended in the case of the Wimbledon tournament since the tournament last year was regarded as an exhibition tournament earning NO ranking points and after Wimbledon the rankings may e vastly different from the points achieved thus far.
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EASTBOURNE
ROUND 2
Top Half of the Draw
1 Taylor Fritz vs Mackenzie Mc'Donald
Mikhael Ymer vs Liam Broady
4 Francisco Cerundolo vs Marc-Andrea Huesler
Zizou Zhang vs Maxime Cressy
Bottom Half of the Draw6
8 Miomir Kecmanovic vs Aleksandar Vucik
5 Nicolas Jarry vs Gregoire Barrere
Jeffrey Wolf vs Luca van Assche
2 Tommy Paul vs Sebastian Baez
MALLORCA
Top Half of the Draw
1 Stefanos Tsitsipas vs Yannik Hanfmann
Jordan Thompson vs Feliciano Lopez
4 Adrian Mannarino vs Guido Pella
8 Roberto Carballes Baena vs Corentin Moutet
Bottom Half of the Draq
Arthur Rinderknech vs Constant Lestienne
3 Ben Shelton vs Christopher Eubanks
Lloyd Harris vs Roman Safiullin
2 Alejandro Davidovich Fokina vs Pavel Kotov