Asian Men's Fantasy Tennis 2011 Open, October 8, 2011

This is the first time I am doing this fantasy tournament.  Well, I will pair the Top 16 in Asia using how the Top 16 was drawn in this year's Tokyo Open.  With that, here are the eight pairings -

Upper Draw:

Kei Nishikori (JPN) (1) vs. Ti Chen (TPE) (14)
Danai Udomchoke (THA) (12) vs. Tatsuma Ito (JPN) (7)
Mikhail Kukushkin (KAZ) (3) vs. Yong-Kyu Lim (KOR) (16)
Yuri Shuckin (KAZ) (11) vs. Somdev Devvarman (IND) (5)

Lower Draw:

Go Soeda (JPN) (6) vs. Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE) (10)
Evgeny Korolev (KAZ) (15) vs. Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE) (4)
Andrey Golubev (KAZ) (8) vs. Yuichi Sugita (JPN) (9)
Farrukh Dustov (UZB) (13) vs. Denis Istomin (UZB) (2)

Using the latest head-to-head, the quarterfinals look like this -

Upper Draw:

Kei Nishikori (JPN) (1) vs. Tatsuma Ito (JPN) (7)
Mikhail Kukushkin (KAZ) (3) vs. Somdev Devvarman (IND) (5)

Lower Draw:

Go Soeda (JPN) (6) vs. Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE) (4)
Andrey Golubev (KAZ) (8) vs. Denis Istomin (UZB) (2)

Again, using the latest head-to-head, the semifinals look like this -

Upper Draw:

Kei Nishikori (JPN) (1) vs. Somdev Devvarman (IND) (5)

Lower Draw:

Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE) (4) vs. Andrey Golubev (KAZ) (8)

Again, using the latest head-to-head, the finals look like this -

Kei Nishikori (JPN) (1) vs. Andrey Golubev (KAZ) (8)

GOLD -  KEI NISHIKORI (JPN) (1)
SILVER - ANDREY GOLUBEV (KAZ) (8)
BRONZE - SOMDEV DEVVARMAN (IND) (5)