Archive: pro-tour-news
No points for Juan Monaco yet; his next match will count if he wins. Igor Andreev will remain well below #100; he will probably be playing qualifying pretty soon.
Ivan Dodig is the defending champion, and he needs more than this to stay Top Fifty. The organizers weren't really very nice to him, forcing him to play five days in a row to defend his title....
It's pretty close to a guarantee that a Top Fifteen player won't gain any advantage from reaching the quarterfinal at a 250 point event. But anything else Gilles Simon does here counts -- and he faces a wildcard next.
This was the Year With No Off Season. Usually the ITF takes off at least a little while. Not this year. The Ankara Challenger was played during Christmas week.