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12/29/08 2:26 PM | Johan Lindahl
One slip in Sydney next month and Australian Chris Guccione is assured of a plunge from the Top 100.
Last year's losing finalist has done little to follow up on his dream start to the 2008 season. The No. 96 has got to get off quickly at the Medibank International,losingthe final to Dmitry Tursunov.
Guccione is the only Australian besides No. 67 Lleyton Hewitt still ranked inside the ATP century. The 23-year-old has been flying solo without a coach with limited success for six months.
But the big man at 2.0 meters tall is basing his slim hopes on a pair of European Challenger semi-finals near the end of last season. "I had a couple of tough patches, but I think I came through that in the end with some decent results", he told Australian media in the run-up to the 2009 campaign.
Guccione will start his season from next weekend in Brisbane on a wild card.
"The last five or six weeks I was actually playing some decent tennis and had a few tough losses, so that was disappointing, but I had a few good tournaments which kept my ranking inside the top 100".
Added the Davis Cup player: "I'm going to continue to do the same things I did, try to do the right things and see what happens in January. It would be nice to start the year similar to how I started the last couple, to defend those points and keep the ranking up there".
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