• Overall Standings
• Men's Draw Standings
• Women's Draw Standings

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Overall standings

Things certainly got all shook up today. Nicolaas van der Meer is the biggest beneficiary, and passes Bill Walsh to take the lead despite losing 5 points!

Yesterday's leader Bill lost his magic touch today, as many of us did. Bill sees 7 points lopped off his score, 6 on the women's side (3 with Mauresmo, 2 with Jankovic and 1 with Kuznetsova). He also lost one of his men's points when Gasquet was defeated. Nicolaas saved the day by picking Robredo over Gasquet and anticipating three of the women's upsets (Peer over Kuznetsova, Vaidisova over Dementieva and Williams over Jankovic).

Nicolaas still has to worry about Bill, who is still a title threat a point off the pace.

Rank	Contestant	Total score
1.	Nicolaas van der Meer	51 (28,23)
2.	Bill Walsh	50 (27,23)
3.	Plib	49 (25,24)
4.	Manuel Halkias	49 (27,22)
5.	Steve Antoniadis	48 (24,24)
6.	Craig Willeford	48 (26,22)
7.	Yoonho Ji	48 (26,22)
8.	Aaron Seong	48 (29,19)
9.	Anna Lickley	47 (24,23)
10.	Jack Cunniff	47 (23,24)
11.	Peter Smyth	47 (26,21)
	Michael Mungin	47 (25,22)
13.	Eric Goll	47 (28,19)
14.	Julio Morales	46 (24,22)
15.	Cian O'Reilly	46 (26,20)
	Elizabeth Ashbury	46 (27,19)
17.	Leslie Wolpinski	45 (26,19)
18.	Lindsay Brown	45 (23,22)
19.	Tony Fales	45 (25,20)
	Javier Camacho	45 (24,21)
	Andrew Peglau	45 (24,21)
	Jasper van der Zwan	45 (27,18)
23.	Chris Wang	45 (22,23)
24.	Sanjeev Bordoloi	45 (25,20)
25.	Rich Erickson	44 (21,23)
26.	Michael Grundy	44 (23,21)
27.	Chi-Wai Lui	44 (24,20)
	Ed Zafian	44 (26,18)
29.	Tom Brozo	44 (21,23)
30.	Lawrence Toombs	44 (24,20)
31.	Diego	44 (24,20)
32.	Alex Macpherson	43 (20,23)
	Stephen Spainhour	43 (21,22)
34.	Jason Juzwiak	43 (24,19)
35.	Byron McCrae	43 (25,18)
	Martin McLean	43 (23,20)
	Scott Pollack	43 (23,20)
	Jeff Tagen	43 (25,18)
39.	Dan Wachs	43 (22,21)
	Joeri Kester	43 (21,22)
	Steve Gocha	43 (25,18)
42.	Maydoosa	43 (22,21)
43.	Daisy Aye	43 (24,19)
44.	Chris Gerby	43 (24,19)
	Frederick Warburg	43 (23,20)
46.	Mark Zuckerman	41 (21,20)
47.	Colin Strudwick	41 (22,19)
48.	Jerry Balsam	41 (22,19)
	Alison Dura	41 (24,17)
50.	Andrew McCarthy	41 (23,18)
51.	Rosemary Contompasis	41 (22,19)
52.	Emily Dura	41 (21,20)
53.	Gary Ellis	41 (24,17)
54.	Bounces	41 (21,20)
55.	Tim Wilson	40 (22,18)
56.	Art Vaughn	40 (19,21)
57.	Ed Toombs	39 (19,20)
58.	Will Johnson	39 (19,20)
59.	Keith Jacobson	39 (21,18)
60.	Susan Barber	39 (21,18)
61.	Amelie's Shorts	38 (22,16)
62.	Gavin Hotchin	38 (20,18)
63.	Andy Smith	37 (22,15)
64.	Lev	37 (20,17)
65.	Freudocadoe	37 (21,16)
66.	Sarah Halsted	37 (18,19)
67.	J.Stewart	36 (20,16)
68.	Aaron Heinsman	36 (23,13)
69.	Renato de Oliveira Almeida	35 (16,19)
70.	k i r i n	33 (13,20)
71.	Tavia Thomas	33 (18,15)
72.	Rich Glenn	32 (17,15)

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Men's draw

Aaron Seong is now alone in first place!

Aaron had been tied on top with Ed Zafian and Eric Goll, and was the only one of the three to lose nothing today. Well done by Aaron, especially to pick the key match, Robredo's win over Gasquet. Ed fell three points back, losing Tursunov, Gasquet and Ferrer. Eric is still in the hunt after losing just one point with Gasquet. He is tied there with Overall leader Nicolaas van der Meer, who had a perfect day.

Looking at today's fourth round fixtures, they could all be significant. Since all the top seeds have advanced from the bottom half, there are lots of points at stake today. We note that leader Aaron has Nalbandian over Haas, Berdych over Davydenko, Blake over Gonzalez and Nadal over Murray.

Rank	Contestant	Men's score
1.	Aaron Seong	29
2.	Nicolaas van der Meer	28
3.	Eric Goll	28
4.	Manuel Halkias	27
5.	Elizabeth Ashbury	27
6.	Bill Walsh	27
	Jasper van der Zwan	27
8.	Cian O'Reilly	26
9.	Craig Willeford	26
	Peter Smyth	26
	Leslie Wolpinski	26
	Yoonho Ji	26
	Ed Zafian	26
14.	Jeff Tagen	25
15.	Plib	25
	Michael Mungin	25
	Byron McCrae	25
	Tony Fales	25
	Steve Gocha	25
20.	Sanjeev Bordoloi	25
21.	Anna Lickley	24
	Gary Ellis	24
23.	Andrew Peglau	24
	Chris Gerby	24
	Julio Morales	24
26.	Jason Juzwiak	24
	Chi-Wai Lui	24
	Alison Dura	24
	Steve Antoniadis	24
30.	Lawrence Toombs	24
	Diego	24
	Javier Camacho	24
33.	Daisy Aye	24
34.	Martin McLean	23
	Scott Pollack	23
	Lindsay Brown	23
	Michael Grundy	23
38.	Jack Cunniff	23
	Andrew McCarthy	23
	Frederick Warburg	23
41.	Aaron Heinsman	23
42.	Tim Wilson	22
	Colin Strudwick	22
44.	Andy Smith	22
	Amelie's Shorts	22
46.	Dan Wachs	22
47.	Maydoosa	22
48.	Rosemary Contompasis	22
	Chris Wang	22
	Jerry Balsam	22
51.	Rich Erickson	21
	Freudocadoe	21
	Mark Zuckerman	21
54.	Emily Dura	21
55.	Susan Barber	21
	Joeri Kester	21
	Tom Brozo	21
	Bounces	21
	Stephen Spainhour	21
60.	Keith Jacobson	21
61.	Gavin Hotchin	20
	Lev	20
63.	Alex Macpherson	20
64.	J.Stewart	20
65.	Art Vaughn	19
66.	Ed Toombs	19
67.	Will Johnson	19
68.	Tavia Thomas	18
69.	Sarah Halsted	18
70.	Rich Glenn	17
71.	Renato de Oliveira Almeida	16
72.	k i r i n	13

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Women's draw

5 of the 7 matches played today, including all four fourth round matches, saw the lower-ranked player win. We lost the defending champion and 2 of the top 3 seeds. You'd expect this wild day to yield some big swings in the contest. Did it ever!

The Women's Draw now has a trio of leaders. Plib was the only survivor from yesterday's leading quintet, losing "just" 5 points (2 with Kuznetsova, and 1 each with Mauresmo, Jankovic and Harkleroad). Jack Cunniff kept his losses to 4 points and picked three of the upsets (Li over Safina, Peer over Kuznetsova and Vaidisova over Dementieva). But Steve Antoniadis had the most spectular performance, losing only 2 points (both with Mauresmo), and moving from 44th to 1st!

There were a number of heartbreakers, but our Heartbreaker of the Day has to be the woman who eliminated the defending champion:

Lucie Safarova

Lucie, who also received this inestimable honour when she took out Schiavone in the second round, again held her nerve admirably to oust an off-form Mauresmo. Can the Czech teen keep it going against her compatriot Vaidisova in the quarterfinals? Come what may, reaching the quarters is a great feat that was not expected by any of the 9 contestants who had taken a chance on Safarova to reach the R16.

Looking ahead at tomorrow's fourth-rounders, the key matches could be Li-Hingis and Chakvetadze-Schnyder. Hingis is the favourite but Li has some supporters, including co-leader Jack C. Jack is also the only member of the leading trio to favour Schnyder over Chakvetadze.

Rank	Contestant	Women's score
1.	Steve Antoniadis	24
2.	Plib	24
3.	Jack Cunniff	24
4.	Rich Erickson	23
	Alex Macpherson	23
6.	Nicolaas van der Meer	23
7.	Tom Brozo	23
	Anna Lickley	23
9.	Chris Wang	23
10.	Bill Walsh	23
11.	Stephen Spainhour	22
	Julio Morales	22
13.	Craig Willeford	22
14.	Joeri Kester	22
	Manuel Halkias	22
16.	Yoonho Ji	22
	Lindsay Brown	22
	Michael Mungin	22
19.	Michael Grundy	21
20.	Javier Camacho	21
21.	Peter Smyth	21
	Dan Wachs	21
	Maydoosa	21
	Art Vaughn	21
25.	Andrew Peglau	21
26.	k i r i n	20
27.	Mark Zuckerman	20
28.	Martin McLean	20
	Scott Pollack	20
	Lawrence Toombs	20
	Chi-Wai Lui	20
32.	Tony Fales	20
	Ed Toombs	20
	Will Johnson	20
	Emily Dura	20
36.	Bounces	20
37.	Frederick Warburg	20
38.	Sanjeev Bordoloi	20
	Diego	20
	Cian O'Reilly	20
41.	Renato de Oliveira Almeida	19
42.	Leslie Wolpinski	19
43.	Jerry Balsam	19
	Jason Juzwiak	19
45.	Rosemary Contompasis	19
46.	Eric Goll	19
	Daisy Aye	19
	Colin Strudwick	19
49.	Aaron Seong	19
	Sarah Halsted	19
	Elizabeth Ashbury	19
	Chris Gerby	19
53.	Byron McCrae	18
54.	Gavin Hotchin	18
	Jeff Tagen	18
	Jasper van der Zwan	18
	Ed Zafian	18
58.	Steve Gocha	18
	Tim Wilson	18
	Andrew McCarthy	18
	Keith Jacobson	18
62.	Susan Barber	18
63.	Alison Dura	17
64.	Lev	17
65.	Gary Ellis	17
66.	Amelie's Shorts	16
67.	J.Stewart	16
68.	Freudocadoe	16
69.	Andy Smith	15
70.	Rich Glenn	15
71.	Tavia Thomas	15
72.	Aaron Heinsman	13

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