June 6th Rankings

It was status quo at Roland Garros this year, with Rafael Nadal beating Roger Federer in the final. It was Federer who had the most impressive win of the week, though, ending Novak Djokovic's long season-opening win streak. There was no change in the rankings, though, as Nadal repeated his title, and Djokovic and Federer both improved from quarterfinal showings last year. Andy Murray, the fourth semifinalist, moved up to #4, displacing Robin Soderling, who dropped a final from last year. David Ferrer also moved up one place to 6th, switching spots with Juan Martin del Potro, who lost to Djokovic.

The big riser of the top 10 was Gael Monfils, who came up three spots to 8th after replacing a second round loss from last year qith a quarterfinal loss to Federer. He switched spots with David Nalbandian, who fell out of the top 10 after withdrawing from the event.

Winners:

Roland Garros
#1 Rafael Nadal ESP (2)
1st round John Isner USA (42) | 6-4 6-7(2) 6-7(2) 6-2 6-4
2nd round Pablo Andujar ESP (74) | 7-5 6-3 7-6(4)
3rd round Antonio Veic CRO (171) | 6-1 6-3 6-0
4th round Ivan Ljubicic CRO (37) | 7-5 6-3 6-3
Quarters #5 Robin Soderling SWE (5) | 6-4 6-1 7-6(3)
Semis #4 Andy Murray GBR (4) | 6-4 7-5 6-4
Final #3 Roger Federer SUI (3) | 7-5 7-6(3) 5-7 6-1
Average Opponent Rank 58.5

Rafael Nadal got a real scare in the first round, when he was taken to five sets by big serving John Isner, a real rarity for Nadal in Paris. However, after losing a couple of tiebreak starts, Nadal managed to find his game, and won fairly handily in the final couple of sets. He then cruised some easy players before beating Soderling and Murray easily, and eventually prevailing of Federer in a final that was closer than some have been between the two in recent years.

Challengers:
Alessandria: Pablo Carreno-Busta ESP (212) d. Roberto Bautista-Agut ESP (182) | 3-6 6-3 7-5

Furth: Joao Sousa POR (244) d. Jan-Lennard Struff GER (260) | 6-2 0-6 6-2
Nottingham: Gilles Muller LUX d. Matthias Bachinger GER | 7-6(4) 6-2
Prostejov: Yuriy Schukin KAZ (173) d Flavio Cipolla ITA (117)
6-4 4-6 6-0
Rijeka: Rui Machado POR (121) d. Grega Zemlja SLO (169) | 6-3 6-0

Futures:
Paraguay F2: Duilio Beretta PER (504)
Korea F2: Vasek Pospisil CAN (245)
Uzbekistan F1: Harri Heliovaara FIN (436)
Spain F17: Guillermo Olaso ESP (263)
Israel F5: Amir Weintraub ISR (344)
Czech Republic F3: Marc Rath AUT (467)
Romania F1: Petru-Alexandru Luncanu ROU (391)
Morocco F3: Laurynas Grigelis LTU (392)
South Africa F2: Denes Lukacs HUN (n/a)
Mexico F4: Marcel Felder URU (390)
Brazil F15: Guilherme Clezar BRA (460)
Bosnia & Herzegovina F4: Tomislav Brkic BIH (566)
Poland F2: Marcin Gawron POL (302)
Turkey F19: Denys Molchanov UKR (472)
India F6: Rohan Gajjar IND (560)
Italy F11: Radu Albot MDA (367)
Indonesia F1: Christopher Rungkat INA (536)

Indonesia F2: Christopher Rungkat INA (536)
Iran F1: Matteo Marrai ITA (357)
Mexico F5: Miguel Gallardo-Valles MEX (499)
Brazil F16: Fabiano de Paula BRA (627)
Italy F12: Stefano Travaglia ITA (353)
India F7: Patrik Rosenholm SWE (715)
Guam F1: Daniel Yoo KOR (322)
Poland F3: Marcin Gawron POL (302)
Bosnia & Herzegovina F5: Jozef Kovalik SVK (414)
Korea F3: Kyu-Tae Im KOR (n/a)
Uzbekistan F2: Raven Klaasen RSA (329)
Spain F18: Arnau Brugues-Davi ESP (167)
Romania F2: Victor Ionita ROU (n/a)
Israel F6: Amir Weintraub ISR (344)

Riser of the Week (top 100):
Alejandro Falla COL (88), Up 22
Falla didn't have a bad RG last year, beating Janko Tipsarevic (28) before going out to Roger Federer (3). This year, his decreased ranking meant he was forced to go through the qualies, which he did successfully, before making some progress in the main draw. He got to the fourth round, and beating Potito Starace (50), Florian Mayer (20) and Lukasz Kubot (84), eventually falling to Juan Ignacio Chela (29).

Riser of the Week (other):
Antonio Veic CRO (171), Up 42
The 23-year-old Croat had a dream week in Paris, getting some solid wins in the qualifiers over Horacio Zeballos (133) and Simone Bolelli (112), then pushing on in the main draw, upsetting Pablo Cuevas (49) and Nikolay Davydenko (46), before getting badly beaten by Nadal in round 3.

Dropper of the Week (top 100):
Jurgen Melzer AUT (19), Down 6
Melzer had a magical run in Paris last year, getting two huge wins over David Ferrer (6) and Novak Djokovic (1), before going out in the semifinals to Rafael Nadal (2). This week, he had a lot less success, losing in a major second round upset to Lukas Rosol (102), sending him well away from the top 10.

Dropper of the Week (other):
Julian Reister GER (135), Down 38
Reister was another player who had a good Paris run, qualifying and making the third round last year, beating Carlos Berlocq (72), Olivier Rochus (89) and Feliciano Lopez (25). This year, he lost first round, going out in straights to Viktor Troicki (14).

1 (1). Novak Djokovic SRB - 846.9
Last week: Roland Garros SF (l. Federer)

2 (2). Rafael Nadal ESP - 839.5
Last week: Roland Garros W

3 (3). Roger Federer SUI - 835.0
Last week: Roland Garros F (l. Nadal)

4 (5). Andy Murray GBR - 801.5
Last week: Roland Garros SF (l. Murray)

5 (4). Robin Soderling SWE - 798.3
Last week: Roland Garros QF (l. Nadal)

6 (7). David Ferrer ESP - 788.7
Last week: Roland Garros R16 (l. Monfils)

7 (6). Juan Martin del Potro ARG - 787.5
Last week: Roland Garros R32 (l. Djokovic)

8 (11). Gael Monfils FRA - 784.8
Last week: Roland Garros QF (l. Federer)

9 (9). Stanislas Wawrinka SUI - 778.6
Last week: Roland Garros R16 (l. Federer)

10 (10). Mardy Fish USA - 778.2
Last week: Roland Garros R32 (l. Simon)

11 (8). David Nalbandian ARG - 776.7
Last week: None

12 (15). Andy Roddick USA - 771.9
Last week: None

13 (18). Richard Gasquet FRA - 771.2
Last week: Roland Garros R16

14 (16). Viktor Troicki SRB - 767.9
Last week: Roland Garros R16 (l. Murray)

15 (12). Tomas Berdych CZE - 766.1
Last week: Roland Garros R128 (l. Robert)

16 (17). Jo-Wilfried Tsonga FRA - 766.0
Last week: Roland Garros R32 (l. Wawrinka)

17 (14). Nicolas Almagro ESP - 762.8
Last week: Roland Garros R128 (l. Kubot)

18 (19). Gilles Simon FRA - 762.8
Last week: Roland Garros R16 (l. Soderling)

19 (13). Jurgen Melzer AUT - 759.3
Last week: Roland Garros R64 (l. Rosol)

20 (21). Florian Mayer GER - 752.8
Last week: Roland Garros R64 (l. Falla)

21 (26). Tommy Robredo ESP - 754.4
Last week: None

22 (20). Marin Cilic CRO - 748.5
Last week: Roland Garros R128 (l. Ramirez-Hidalgo)

23 (25). Michael Llodra FRA - 748.3
Last week: Roland Garros R128 (l. Darcis)

24 (27). Alexandr Dolgopolov UKR - 747.6
Last week: Roland Garros R32 (l. Troicki)

25 (29). Feliciano Lopez ESP - 746.2
Last week: Roland Garros R128 (l. Federer)

In: Tommy Robredo, Alexandr Dolgopolov, Feliciano Lopez
Out: Lleyton Hewitt, Mikhail Youzhny, Philipp Kohlschreiber