OVERALL STANDINGS - AS OF GW31

Coming into the week, the lead at the top felt rather tenuous, as Samir (Mirzini Sinovi) had a 30 point lead on Aoun (Fedex Superstars) and a 130 over Dragan (Nadal's Forehand).  Sadly for Samir, his stay at the top lasted only 1 week as Aoun (Fedex Superstars) had a great week and finished 9th and picked up nearly a 100 points on him. 

Thanks to his top 10 result this week, Aoun now leads by 67 points.  Its funny to say this, but even tho he finished in the top 10, it was an incredibly frustrating week for him.  He had 2 late withdrawals (Gauff and Vondrousova), both of his ER lost early (Sakkari and Jabeur), Alexandrova, Zhizhen, and Sinner lost in 3rd set tiebreaks, and he had both Korda and Dimitrov sitting pretty on his bench.  In the end, he still had Pegula win Seoul and Rublev make the final in Shanghai.  Now the real question, how long can he hold onto the top spot?!?!

 

Samir finished 45th this week, and as a result lost 97 points to our new leader.  The only real difference between Aoun and Samir this week was that Aoun had Rublev, and Samir had ummm Zverev lol.  Sadly Zverev looked like he wanted to be anywhere other than Shanghai, and barely put forth an effort and got waxed in straight sets.

 

Dragan,  finished 48th and now sits 131 points behind Aoun. Needless to say, he's within striking distance of Samir.  Dragan was one of the few managers that didn't have a single player withdraw from his lineup this week - he decided to bench everyone that made it past R2 in Beijing.   Sadly, between Alexandrova and Sinner losing in a 3rd set tiebreak, Jabeur withdrawing before her R2 match and De Minaur being missing in action for his R1 match, he ended up losing ground afterall.  The only good thing was that he and Samir had virtually the same point total.

Tricia (Prepare for Czech Mate) continues to sit in 4th, but sadly she's going the wrong direction and continues to lose ground to our leaders.  She finished 66th, and now sits 293 points behind.  Unless a miracle happens, her chances of winning are virtually done.  Sadly this was another team that looked good on paper, and burst into flames early into the week as she had Zverev, De Minaur, and Sakkari all lose in R1, and had Jabeur withdraw in R2.

GameWeek 32 had a massive laundry list of players withdraw before the Main Draws were posted, so the results for the upcoming week could be real interesting.  I know that it left many a manager scrounging and wondering what to do (hell, our leader, Aoun, had 5 players withdraw, and was left with 1 player before trades), so we could see some movement up at the top.