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I was just going on this:

#7: (Andy W)
#8: (Andy F + Ljubicic QF)
#9: (Andy F + Ljubicic SF) 
#11: (Andy SF)

If Ljubicic goes further than the SF it doesn't change anything, that's why I didn't list those other possiblities.  It's shorthand for this:

#9: (Andy F + Ljubicic SF)  or (Andy F + Ljubicic F) or (Andy F + Ljubicic W)

I only list the minimum number of scenarios that are beyond Andy's control.   Whether Lubjicic loses today in the QF or wins and reaches the SF is the only result that can affect Andy's ranking, that's why those are the only two non-Andy results listed.  if that makes sense.  I try to keep it minimal.

Translated into English, the chart means:

If Andy loses in the SF, he will be ranked #11.
If Andy loses in the F and Lubjicic loses in the QF, he will be ranked #8, otherwise he will be ranked #9.
If Andy wins he will be ranked #7.

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Andy in 3 sounds good to me.  If he loses, we must blame it on Mark for trashing Djokovic all week. 

6. Robredo 2645*

(380 points separating #6 from #7)

7. Djokovic 2265*
8. Ljubicic 2170*    
9. Blake 2150                (140 points separating #7 from #11)
10. Haas 2135
11. Murray 2125*

(320 points separating #11 from #12)

12. Nalbandian 1805

*still playing

Adios Rafa:

#7: (Andy W)
#8: (Andy F + Ljubicic QF)
#9: (Andy F + Ljubicic SF) 
#11: (Andy SF)

Djokovic is up a break early.

One set to Djokovic. 

Djokovic up a break in the 2nd set. 

Djokovic serving for the match.  Will Nadal make a comeback?

Adios Rafa.

I don't know, but I think it is quite possible that she imagined it. 

The thing I don't like is that ESPN was interviewing Richard Williams today and basically kissing his butt talking about how he did such a wonderful job of preparing his daughters to handle this sort of adversity.  Funny how the WTA assigned a black chair umpire to Serena's next match.  Coincidence?  ESPN should be asking people in the stands what they heard, instead of presuming the facts and kissing the butt of a man who lacks credibility.

reminds me of this:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/tennis/news/2001/03/26/ericsson_open_ap/

"The white people at Indian Wells, what they've been wanting to say all along to us finally came out: 'n****r, stay away from here, we don't want you here,'" Williams said.

The crowd booed the family March 17 after Venus pulled out of her semifinal match against Serena, citing knee tendinitis. The withdrawal sparked a new round of speculation that the result of matches between the sisters is predetermined by their father, which the family denies.

Taunts by the crowd went beyond suspicions of match-fixing, Richard Williams said.

"It's the worst act of prejudice I've seen since they killed Martin Luther King," Williams said. He said that as he and Venus were walking to their seats for the final, about a dozen fans used the racial slur and one spoke of skinning him alive.

Williams said he resisted a temptation to respond. Instead, he said, he watched near tears as fans jeered Serena and cheered when she double-faulted en route to a victory against Kim Clijsters. He characterized the crowd as white and wealthy, with all but about a thousand fans in the crowd of 16,000 booing his daughter.
   
"That's the hardest time in the world I've ever had," Williams said. "I'll never go to Indian Wells again, because I believe that guy would skin me alive."

Asked about her father's allegations, Venus said: "I heard what he heard." She declined to elaborate.

Williams developed his daughters into Grand Slam champions but has a history of outrageous comments. Top-ranked Martina Hingis, who didn't attend the Indian Wells final, said she likes the sisters but discounted Richard Williams' allegations.

"I think it's total nonsense," Hingis said. "I don't feel like there is any racism on the tour. It's a very international sport, and I even would say because they may be black, they have a lot of advantages. ... They can always say it's racism."

During the 1997 U.S. Open, Richard Williams alleged that a collision between Irina Spirlea and Venus Williams on a changeover was racially motivated.

Indian Wells officials didn't return phone calls seeking comment. Charles Pasarell, director of the Indian Wells tournament, told USA Today he was embarrassed by the boos. As for racial taunting, Pasarell said, "If Richard says someone yelled something, maybe they did, but I know that's not Indian Wells people."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=A1YourView&xml=/sport/2007/03/28/sthodg28.xml

With tennis rocked by the news that Serena Williams was subjected to racist heckling by a male spectator at the Sony Ericsson Open, and was told to "hit the ball into the net like any negro would", Zina Garrison told The Daily Telegraph last night that she felt "shocked and saddened" at how her friend and fellow African-American had been treated.

Playing in her first tournament since winning January's Australian Open, Williams reported the racist abuse to the umpire during her third-round victory against Czech Lucie Safarova late on Monday, asking for the man to be ejected from the centre court here. And there were suggestions yesterday that a distraught Williams had actually 'cleaned up' the language in the post-match news conference she gave, and had later said privately that the racist spectator had called her "a n****r".

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/tennis/news/story?id=2815494&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines


A heckler ejected for taunting Serena Williams on Monday denied using racial slurs against the tennis star, according to a published report.

''I said she was lazy, that she didn't run for balls -- stuff like that -- but I did not say the N-word or use any racial language,'' Donald Winton told The Miami Herald when reached by telephone Tuesday. "I'm at my wit's end about this. I didn't say a word the whole first set; … in the second set I said some stuff and I guess she didn't like it, but I didn't say what she said I said."