April 18th Rankings

Juan Martin del Potro reenters the top 10 after his return from injury, with Tomas Berdych taking a one spot drop to 10th and Gael Monfils going down three places to 13th after losing to Frederico Gil (74) in the third round.

Winners:

Monte Carlo
#1 Rafael Nadal ESP (1)
1st round Bye
2nd round Jarkko Nieminen FIN (46) | 6-2 6-2
3rd round #13 Richard Gasquet FRA (16) | 6-2 6-4
Quarters Ivan Ljubicic CRO (38) | 6-1 6-3
Semis #3 Andy Murray GBR (5) | 6-4 2-6 6-1
Final #4 David Ferrer ESP (6) | 6-4 7-5
Average Opponent Rank 22.2

Nadal won his 7th Monte Carlo title, dropping only a single set along the way, against Andy Murray in the semifinals.


Challengers:
Athens: #4 Matthias Bachinger GER (121) d. #2 Dmitry Tursunov RUS (60) | Walkover
Blumenau: Jose Acasuso ARG (90) d. Marcelo Demoliner BRA (372) | 6-2 6-2
Johannesburg: #4 Izak van der Merwe RSA (202) d. #6 Rik de Voest RSA (137) |

6-7(2) 7-5 6-3
Rome: Thomas Schoorel NED (92) d. Martin Klizan SVK (183) | 7-5 1-6 6-3
Tallahassee: #7 Donald Young USA (87) d. Wayne Odesnik USA (100) | 6-4 3-6 6-3

Futures:
Argentina F1: Agustin Velotti ARG (463)
Brazil F9: Gaston-Arturo Grimolizzi ARG (632)
Chile F3: Guillaume Rufin FRA (197)
China F3: Ti Chen TPE (522)
France F6: Charles-Antoine Brezac FRA (326)
India F3: Vishnu Vardhan IND (419)
Italy F5: Stefano Galvani ITA (255)
Spain F12: Roberto Carballes Baena ESP (n/a)
Thailand F3: Young-Jun Kim KOR (315)
Turkey F13: Radu Albot MDA (420)


Riser of the Week (top 100):
Ivan Ljubicic CRO (38), Up 12
The 32-year-old, who lives in Monte Carlo, had an excellent week in Monte Carlo, beating a top ten player in Tomas Berdych (10), as well as Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (17) and Jeremy Chardy (51), before losing to Nadal in the quarterfinals.

Riser of the Week (other):
Marcelo Demoliner BRA (372), Up 81
The Brazilian replaced a first round loss from last year's Blumenau challenger with a very solid run this year, making the final with wins over Tatsuma Ito (169), Aljaz Bedene (128) and Facundo Bagnis (225).

Dropper of the Week (top 100):
Philipp Petzschner GER (59), Down 13
Last year, the German had a couple of wins in Monte Carlo, beating Jurgen Melzer (11) and Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (34) to make the third round. This year, he needed to go through the qualifying, but fell in the first round, losing to Flavio Cipolla (176).

Dropper of the Week (other):
Marcos Daniel BRA (126), Down 32
This time last year, Daniel won the challenger at Blumenau, but he was nowhere near as successful this year, losing in the first round to Ricardo Hocevar (242). He hasn't won a match in 2011, and this was his first week back since retiring down 0-6 0-5 against Nadal in Melbourne.


1 (1). Rafael Nadal ESP - 837.2
Last week: Monte Carlo W

2 (2). Novak Djokovic SRB - 826.1
Last week: None

3 (3). Roger Federer SUI - 821.6
Last week: Monte Carlo QF (l. Melzer)

4 (4). Robin Soderling SWE - 797.5
Last week: None

5 (5). Andy Murray GBR - 795.1
Last week: Monte Carlo SF (l. Nadal)

6 (6). David Ferrer ESP - 788.7
Last week: Monte Carlo F (l. Ferrer)

7 (7). Stanislas Wawrinka SUI - 781.6
Last week: None

8 (8). David Nalbandian ARG - 776.4
Last week: None

9 (11). Juan Martin del Potro ARG - 773.9
Last week: None

10 (9). Tomas Berdych CZE - 773.1
Last week: Monte Carlo R16 (l. Ljubicic)

11 (14). Jurgen Melzer AUT - 772.6
Last week: Monte Carlo SF (l. Ferrer)

12 (12). Mardy Fish USA - 772.6
Last week: None

13 (10). Gael Monfils FRA - 772.3
Last week: Monte Carlo R16 (l. Gil)

14 (13). Andy Roddick USA - 770.2
Last week: None

15 (15). Nicolas Almagro ESP - 767.5
Last week: Monte Carlo R16 (l. Melzer)

16 (18). Richard Gasquet FRA - 764.4
Last week: Monte Carlo R16 (l. Nadal)

17 (16). Jo-Wilfried Tsonga FRA - 762.7
Last week: Monte Carlo R32 (l. Ljubicic)

18 (20). Viktor Troicki SRB - 760.3
Last week: Monte Carlo QF (l. Ferrer)

19 (21). Gilles Simon FRA - 758.0
Last week: Monte Carlo R16 (l. Murray)

20 (19). Mikhail Youzhny RUS - 757.8
Last week: Monte Carlo R64 (l. Mayer)

21 (17). Fernando Verdasco ESP - 756.9
Last week: Monte Carlo R32 (l. Robredo)

22 (24). Marin Cilic CRO - 750.6
Last week: Monte Carlo R16 (l. Federer)

23 (23). Lleyton Hewitt AUS - 749.8
Last week: None

24 (22). Philipp Kohlschreiber GER - 747.1
Last week: Monte Carlo R32 (l. Federer)

25 (25). Michael Llodra FRA - 745.4
Last week: Monte Carlo R64 (l. Raonic)

In: None
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