May 16th Rankings

After stretching his winning streak even further in Rome, Novak Djokovic ascends to the position of world #1, surpassing Rafael Nadal following beating the Spaniard in the final. The other change in the top 10 sees a big rise for Mardy Fish, who comes up 4 places to 9th, dropping Stanislas Wawrinka from the top 10.

Winners:

Rome
#2 Novak Djokovic SRB (1)
1st round Bye
2nd round Lukasz Kubot POL (118) | 6-0 6-3
3rd round #14 Stanislas Wawrinka SUI (11) | 6-4 6-1
Quarters #5 Robin Soderling SWE (4) | 6-3 6-0
Semis #4 Andy Murray GBR (5) | 6-1 3-6 7-6(2)
Final #1 Rafael Nadal ESP (2) | 6-4 6-4
Average Opponent Rank 28.0

Djokovic came as close to losing as he has all year in Rome, but not, as you might expect, against Nadal. The Djokovic-Murray semifinal will likely end up as one of the year's best matches, as the Serbian seemed to be down and out, before rallying spectacularily. He also ruthlessly beatdown two top 11 players to get to that point, and wasn't in too much trouble against Nadal in the final.


Challengers:
Bordeaux: Marc Gicquel FRA (145) d. Horacio Zeballos ARG (116) | 6-2 6-4
Busan: #4 Dudi Sela ISR (84) d. #3 Tatsuma Ito JPN (155) | 6-2 6-7(5) 6-3
Zagreb: Diego Junqueira ARG (133) d. Joao Souza BRA (188) | 6-3 6-4

Futures:
Argentina F5: Marco Trungelliti ARG (335)
Bosnia & Herzegovina F2: Miljan Zekic SRB (341)
Brazil F13: Tiago Lopes BRA (227)
Bulgaria F2: Axel Michon FRA (312)
Czech Republic F1: Jiri Vesely CZE (n/a)
China F5: Ti Chen TPE (518)
Great Britain F7: Malek Jaziri TUN (306)
Italy F9: Antal van der Duim NED (421)
Kazakhstan F3: Federico Gaio ITA (505)
Mexico F2: Daniel Garza MEX (446)
Morocco F1: Marc Fornell-Mestres ESP (482)
Spain F15: Joao Sousa POR (252)
Sweden F2: Timo Nieminen FIN (348)
Turkey F17: Denys Molchanov UKR (483)
USA F12: Blake Strode USA (552)
Venezuela F2: David Souto VEN (423)

Riser of the Week (top 100):
Xavier Malisse BEL (34), Up 6
This time last year, Malisse lost to Florent Serra (124) in a challenger at Bordeaux, This year, he was in the main draw at Rome, where he beat Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (37), before losing to Andy Murray, and that result gave him a solid rise.

Riser of the Week (other):
Diego Junqueira ARG (133), Up 33
The 30-year-old Argentine won a challenger on clay in Zagreb, getting wins over Martin Klizan (168), Joao Souza (188) and Lukas Lacko (100) en route. This replaced a first round loss at a challenger last year, and lifted Junqueira into the top 150.

Dropper of the Week (top 100):
Ernests Gulbis LAT (74), Down 16
Gulbis didn't play this week, but dropped off a good result from Madrid last year, in which he beat Mikhail Youzhny (22), Feliciano Lopez (29) and Albert Montanes (32), before losing to Roger Federer in the quarterfinals.

Dropper of the Week (other):
Yong-Kyu Lim KOR (490), Down 94
The 19-year-old was a home star at the Busan challenger this time last year, including an excellent win over Yen-Hsun Lu (78) in the final. This year, he attempted to defend is title, but was felled in the second round, by Australia's Greg Jones (255).

1 (2). Novak Djokovic SRB - 839.5
Last week: Rome W

2 (1). Rafael Nadal ESP - 834.6
Last week: Rome F (l. Djokovic)

3 (3). Roger Federer SUI - 826.4
Last week: Rome R16 (l. Gasquet)

4 (4). Robin Soderling SWE - 799.1
Last week: Rome QF (l. Djokovic)

5 (5). Andy Murray GBR - 796.7
Last week: Rome SF (l. Djokovic)

6 (6). David Ferrer ESP - 786.1
Last week: None

7 (7). Juan Martin del Potro ARG - 786.1
Last week: None

8 (8). David Nalbandian ARG - 776.0
Last week: None

9 (13). Mardy Fish USA - 775.1
Last week: Rome R16 (l. Cilic)

10 (9). Tomas Berdych CZE - 774.9
Last week: Rome QF (l. Gasquet)

11 (10). Stanislas Wawrinka SUI - 773.7
Last week: Rome R16 (l. Djokovic)

12 (12). Gael Monfils FRA - 771.3
Last week: None

13 (11). Jurgen Melzer AUT - 770.6
Last week: Rome R32 (l. Mayer)

14 (14). Nicolas Almagro ESP - 767.5
Last week: Rome R16 (l. Soderling)

15 (15). Andy Roddick USA - 766.8
Last week: Rome R64 (l. Simon)

16 (16). Richard Gasquet FRA - 766.1
Last week: Rome SF (l. Nadal)

17 (17). Jo-Wilfried Tsonga FRA - 762.6
Last week: Rome R32 (l. Federer)

18 (18). Viktor Troicki SRB - 760.4
Last week: Rome R32 (l. Starace)

19 (19). Gilles Simon FRA - 756.6
Last week: Rome R32 (l. Chela)

20 (22). Marin Cilic CRO - 755.0
Last week: Rome QF (l. Nadal)

21 (20). Lleyton Hewitt AUS - 752.7
Last week: None

22 (21). Mikhail Youzhny RUS - 751.4
Last week: Rome R64 (l. Kohlschreiber)

23 (25). Florian Mayer GER - 750.0
Last week: Rome QF (l. Murray)

24 (26). Philipp Kohlschreiber GER - 748.4
Last week: Rome R32 (l. Lopez)

25 (23). Michael Llodra FRA - 746.6
Last week: Rome R64 (l. Lopez)

In: Philipp Kohlschreiber
Out: Alexandr Dolgopolov