March 21st Rankings

The top 6 remain the same, but below that there's some major changes, as Stanislas Wawrinka's

quarterfinal sees him move up to 7th, and a couple of men take drops; Andy Roddick sees his

final from last year come off, dropping him to 9th, and Tomas Berdych's quarterfinal comes off,

leavin him down in 10th. The benefactor is David Nalbandian, who comes past both to 8th.

Winners:
Indian Wells
#3 Novak Djokovic SRB (3)
1st round Bye
2nd round Andrey Golubev KAZ (57) | 6-0 6-4
3rd round #31 Ernests Gulbis LAT (29) | 6-0 6-1
3rd round #16 Viktor Troicki SRB (19) | 6-0 6-1
Quarters #18 Richard Gasquet FRA (18) | 6-2 6-4
Semis #2 Roger Federer SUI (2) | 6-3 3-6 6-2
Final #1 Rafael Nadal ESP (1) | 4-6 6-3 6-2
Average Opponent Rank 21.0

Novak Djokovic's breathtaking start to the 2011 season continues, as he cruised through his

first four rounds at Indian Wells, including getting a bagel in the first set of his first three

rounds. He then took wins over the only two men rankde above him, bouncing back from losing the

first in the final, and rallying after Roger won the second in the semi.


Challengers:
Kyoto: #5 Dominik Meffert GER (110) d. Cedrik-Marcel Stebe GER (166)
Santiago: #2 Maximo Gonzalez ARG (81) d. #4 Eric Prodon FRA (140)
Sarajevo: Amer Delic BIH (n/a) d. Karol Beck SVK (141) Walkover
Guangzhou: #7 Uladzimir Ignatik BLR (213) d. Alexander Kudryavtsev RUS (159)
Le Gosier: Olivier Rochus BEL (79) d. Stephane Robert FRA (128)
Rabat: Ivo Minar CZE (147) d. Peter Luczak AUS (173)
Rimouski: #5 Fritz Wolmarans RSA (243) d. #1 Bobby Reynolds USA (134)
San Jose: Giovanni Lapentti ECU (225) d. #5 Igor Kunitsyn RUS (112)

Futures:
Canada F2: Charles-Antoine Brezac FRA (324)
France F4: Marc Gicquel FRA (177)
Great Britain F3: Yannick Mertens BEL (272)
Italy F1: Stefano Galvani ITA (264)
Portugal F2: Gerard Granollers-Pujol ESP (384)
Spain F7: Evgeny Donskoy RUS (156)
Turkey F8: Andrei Mlendea ROU (441)
Ukraine F2: Denis Matsukevitch RUS (399)
USA F7: Wayne Odesnik USA (n/a)
France F5: Marc Gicquel FRA (177)
Great Britain F4: Michael Ryderstdet (272)
India F1: Yuki Bhambri IND (483)
Italy F2: Dusan Lajovic SRB (264)
Portugal F3: Gerard Granollers-Pujol ESP (384)
Russia F1: Denis Matsukevitch RUS (399)
Spain F8: David Estruch ESP (624)
Switzerland F1: Holger Fischer GER (383)
Turkey F9: Daniel Koellerer AUT (283)
Ukraine F3: Artem Smirnov UKR (305)


Riser of the Week (top 100):
Milos Raonic CAN (54), Up 12
The young Canadian moved up after making the third round in IW, including beating Mardy Fish

(13) for the second time this season, and while he did lose his next match, to young starlet

Ryan Harrison (91), he also dropped a loss to Arthur de Greef (n/a) in the first round of a

futures event last year, giving him a nice boost.

Riser of the Week (other):
Cedrik-Marcel Stebe GER (166), Up 70
Stebe, a 20-year-old German, had a great week in Asia, making the finals of the Kyoto

challenger, losing to Dominik Meffert (110), then getting revenge on Meffert in Guangzhou, also

beating Lukas Lacko (95), beofre losing in the semifinals.

Dropper of the Week (top 100):
Ivan Ljubicic CRO (46), Down 21
Ljubicic was a surprising winner of last year's Indian Wells, picking up huge wins over Novak

Djokovic and Rafael Nadal, before taking out Andy Riddkc in the final. This year, he faced an

unfortunate second round draw against Juan Martin del Potro (n/a), and so saw all of those wins

form last year drop off.

Dropper of the Week (other):
Stefan Koubek AUT (188), Down 38
Koubek qualififed for Indian Wells last year, beating Somdev Devvarman (116) in the final round,

and while he lost to David Nalabandian (8) in the first round of the main draw, he then went on

to the Sunrise challenger, where he beat Jeremy Chardy (45) en route to the quarterfinals. This

year, he played just one match in the two weeks, losing easily to Greg Jones (274) in the IW

qualies.



1 (1). Rafael Nadal ESP - 836.8
Last week: Indian Wells F (l. Djokovic)

2 (2). Roger Federer SUI - 821.9
Last week: Indian Wells SF (l. Djokovic)

3 (3). Novak Djokovic SRB - 820.7
Last week: Indian Wells W

4 (4). Robin Soderling SWE - 799.9
Last week: Indian Wells R32 (l. Kohlschreiber)

5 (5). Andy Murray GBR - 794.3
Last week: Indian Wells R64 (l. Young)

6 (6). David Ferrer ESP - 790.2
Last week: Indian Wells R64 (l. Karlovic)

7 (8). Stanislas Wawrinka SUI - 784.7
Last week: Indian Wells QF (l. Federer)

8 (10). David Nalbandian ARG - 781.2
Last week: None

9 (7). Andy Roddick USA - 780.0
Last week: Indian Wells R16 (l. Gasquet)

10 (9). Tomas Berdych CZE - 779.1
Last week: Indian Wells R16 (l. Wawrinka)

11 (13). Gael Monfils FRA - 775.1
Last week: None

12 (11). Jo-Wilfried Tsonga FRA - 770.6
Last week: Indian Wells R64 (l. Malisse)

13 (12). Mardy Fish USA - 770.5
Last week: Indian Wells R64 (l. Raonic)

14 (14). Jurgen Melzer AUT - 769.9
Last week: Indian Wells R32 (l. Gasquet)

15 (15). Nicolas Almagro ESP - 769.1
Last week: Indian Wells R32 (l. Montanes)

16 (16). Fernando Verdasco ESP - 768.9
Last week: Indian Wells R32 (l. Querrey)

17 (17). Mikhail Youzhny RUS - 764.0
Last week: None

18 (20). Richard Gasquet FRA - 760.9
Last week: Indian Wells QF (l. Djokovic)

19 (19). Viktor Troicki SRB - 756.2
Last week: Indian Wells R16 (l. Djokovic)

20 (18). Gilles Simon FRA - 753.6
Last week: Indian Wells R32 (l. Karlovic)

21 (21). Philipp Kohlschreiber GER - 753.1
Last week: Indian Wells R16 (l. del Potro)

22 (22). Marin Cilic CRO - 752.1
Last week: Indian Wells R32 (l. Wawrinka)

23 (24). Michael Llodra FRA - 748.4
Last week: Indian Wells R32 (l. Troicki)

24 (23). Lleyton Hewitt AUS - 747.9
Last week: Indian Wells R128 (l. Lu)

25 (30). Juan Carlos Ferrero ESP - 744.7
Last week: None

In: Juan Carlos Ferrero
Out: Ivan Ljubicic