Asian Men's Fantasy Open: October 8, 2010

Now that the tour is in its Asian leg, I was curious to find out how the Asian players are doing.  And how I will do it is through a fantasy game!  Let's imagine that we are now in the quarterfinals of the Asian Games Singles Tennis tournament.  I will pit two players and use the www.atptennis.com website to find out their head-to-head!  In picking out the Top 8, I will use the current rankings for this week, October 4.  In pairing the Top 4 players, I used a die to decide which player ranked 5-8, they are going to play with.  So this is how the draw pans out -

Andrey Golubev (1) (KAZ) vs. Go Soeda (7) (JPN)

Yen-Hsun Lu (3) (TPE) vs. Evgeny Korolev (5) (KAZ)
Mikhail Kukushkin (4) (KAZ) vs. Kei Nishikori (8) (JPN)
Denis Istomin (2) (UZB) vs. Somdev Devvarman (6) (IND)

And based on the head-to-head, the semi's will look like this -

Andrey Golubev (1) (KAZ) vs. Yen-Hsun Lu (3) (TPE)
Mikhail Kukushkin (4) (KAZ) vs. Denis Istomin (2) (UZB)

And again, based on the head-to-head, the finals will look like this -

Andrey Golubev (1) (KAZ) vs. Denis Istomin (2) (UZB)

And the bronze medal match will be between -

Mikhail Kukushkin (4) (KAZ) vs. Yen-Hsun Lu (3) (TPE)

And this is how the medal tally looks like -

GOLD - ANDREY GOLUBEV (KAZ)
SILVER - DENIS ISTOMIN (UZB)
BRONZE - YEN-HSUN LU (TPE)