Edged's Tennis Rankings

June 6th Rankings - Juniors

2011-06-12T13:07:00.000-07:00

ATP U20 - The rankings for all players under 20 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Bernard Tomic AUS (18.5) - #82, +4
Last week: Roland Garros R128; Nottingham CH SF

2 (2). Ryan Harrison USA (19.0) - #99, -3
Last week: Roland Garros QR2, R128 (LL)

3 (3). Pablo Carreno-Busta ESP (19.9) - #212, +35
Last week: Alessandria CH W

4 (4). Roberto Carballes-Baena ESP (18.2) - #273, +14
Last week: None

5 (5). Filip Krajinovic SRB (19.2) - #300, +2
Last week: Italy F12 FU QF

6 (6). Facundo Arguello ARG (18.8) - #301, +5
Last week: Paraguay F2 FU SF

7 (-). Damir Dzumhur BIH (19.0) - #305, n/a
Last week: Bosnia & Herzegovina F5 FU SF

8 (8). Javier Marti ESP (19.4) - #310, +31
Last week: Roland Garros R128 (Q); Prostejov CH QR3

9 (9). Di Wu CHN (19.7) - #313, +31
Last week: Korea F3 FU F

10 (7). Christian Lindell SWE (19.5) - #320, +20
Last week: Alessandria CH QR1; Italy F12 FU F

ATP U18 - The rankings for all players under 18 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Liam Broady GBR (17.4) - #507, +2
Last week: Nottingham CH QR1

2 (2). Juan Ignacio Londero ARG (17.8) - #743, -6
Last week: Paraguay F2 FU R32

3 (3). Robert Rumler CZE (17.5) - #770, +8
Last week: Prostejov CH QR1

ITF Juniors - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Thiem replaces Borgue in 10th spot.

1 (1). Jiri Vesely CZE (17.9)
2 (2). Andres Artundeo Martinavarr ESP (17.7)
3 (3). Roberto Carballes Baena ESP (18.2)4 (5). Oliver Golding GBR (17.6)

5 (4). Marcos Giron USA (17.8)
6 (9). Mate Delic CRO (18.1)
7 (6). Joris De Loore BEL (18.1)
8 (8). Filip Hornasky SVK (18.4)
9 (7). George Morgan GBR (18.3)
10 (-). Dominic Thiem AUT (17.7)

ITF Juniors U17 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Monteiro ages out, replaced by by the rising Miki Jankovic, while Kyle Edmund is repaced by Adam Pavlasek.

1 (1). Alexios Halebian USA (16.9) - #26, 0
2 (3). Gianluigi Quinzi ITA (15.3) - #30, +5
3 (4). Enzo Couacaud FRA (16.2) - #37, +3
4 (6). Laurent Lokoli FRA (16.6) - #40, +7
5 (5). Jae Hwan Kim KOR (16.7) - #48, -6
6 (-). Miki Jankovic SRB (16.6) - #49, +14
7 (7). Nikola Milojevic SRB (15.9) - #52, -1
8 (9). Adam Pavlasek CZE (16.6) - #54, +12
9 (8). Pedja Krstin SRB (16.7) - #55, -1
10 (10). Filip Veger CRO (16.4) - #60, +2

ITF Juniors U16 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Chi-Shan Jao ages out, replaced by Maxime Hamou.

1 (1). Gianluigi Quinzi ITA (15.3) - #30, +5
2 (2). Nikola Milojevic SRB (15.9) - #52, -1
3 (4). Yoshihito Nishioka JPN (15.6) - #119, +31
4 (5). Wayne Montgomery RSA (15.9) - #139, +19
5 (3). Guillermo Nunez CHI (15.8) - #143, -2
6 (6). Quentin Halys FRA (14.6) - #170, +4
7 (7). Elias Ymer SWE (15.1) - #217, -26
8 (9). Blake Mott AUS (15.1) - #218, +4
9 (-). Maxime Hamou FRA (15.9) - #234, +4
10 (10). Clement Geens BEL (15.2) - #241, -1

June 6th Rankings - Women

2011-06-12T13:02:00.000-07:00

Na Li made history, becoming the first Asian player to win a Grand Slam title, giving her a solid move up in the rankings, up two places to 6th. Three other risers entered the top 10, with quarterfinalists Andrea Petkovic and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, moving up to 8th and 10th, respectively, and Agnieszka Radwanska's fourth round seeing her rise to 9th. Dropping out of the top 10 were the retired Elena Dementieva, who fell below the match threshold, the defending champion Francesca Schiavone, despite making the final for the second straight year, and Sam Stosur, last year's finalist.

Winners:

Roland Garros
#6 Na Li CHN (7)
1st round Barbora Zahlavova Strycova CZE (45) | 6-3 6-7(6) 6-3
2nd round Silvia Soler-Espinosa ESP (135) | 6-4 7-5
3rd round Sorana Cirstea ROU (62) | 6-2 6-2
4th round #9 Petra Kvitova CZE (7) | 2-6 6-1 6-3
Quarters #4 Victoria Azarenka BLR (5) | 7-5 6-2
Semis #7 Maria Sharapova RUS (4) | 6-4 7-5
Final #5 Francesca Schiavone ITA (13) | 6-4 7-6(0)
Average Opponent Rank 38.7

Na Li wasn't known for having much skill on clay, but had a spectacular week in Paris, despite dropping a set in her opening match to Zahlavova Strycova. Her run from the fourth round on was excellent, beating three top 10 players in Kvitova, Azarenka and Sharapova, before taking out the defending champion Schavione to claim the title.

ITF events:

75K
Nottingham: Eleni Daniilidou GRE (91) d. Olga Govortsova BLR (84) | 1-6 6-4 6-2

50K
Carson: #1 Camila Giorgi ITA (160) d. #2 Alexa Glatch USA (156) | 7-6(4) 6-1
Rome: Christina McHale USA (78) d. #7 Ekaterina Ivanova RUS (176) | 6-2 6-4

25K
Bangkok: Ayu-Fani Damayanti INA (317) d. #1 Julia Cohen USA (293) | 3-6 6-2 6-3
Changwon: Chanel Simmonds RSA (199) d. #8 Yurika Sema JPN (339) | 6-2 6-2
Grado: #6 Ajla Tomljanovic CRO (113) d. #8 Alexandra Cadantu ROU (159) | 6-2 6-4
Itaparica: #2 Roxane Vaisemberg BRA (246) d. #5 Vivian Segnini BRA (433) | 6-0 6-1
Niigata: #1 Erika Sema JPN (250) d. #3 Sachie Ishizu JPN (272) | 7-6(5) 6-4
Bangkok: #6 Marta Sirotkina RUS (207) d. Luksika Kumkhum THA (321) | 6-4 6-3
Gimcheon: Mi Yoo KOR (n/a) d. #7 Yurika Sema JPN (339) | 6-3 3-6 6-1
Maribor: Nastja Kolar SLO (151) d. #3 Masa Zec-Peskiric SLO (216) | 7-5 6-4
Prerov: Reka-Luca Jani HUN (227) d. #5 Karolina Pliskova CZE (242) | 6-0 6-3

10K
Bucharest: Elora Dabija ROU (355)
Durban: Nicole Rottmann AUT (558)
Gaziantep: Melis Sezer TUR (557)
Getxo: Yevgeniya Kryvoruchko UKR (524)
Jakarta: Lin Zhu CHN (363)
Paros: Karen Barbat DEN (493)
Raanana: Valeria Patiuk ISR (n/a)
Sumter: Alexis King USA (n/a)
Velenje: Scarlett Werner GER (334)
Cantanhede: Magali de Lattre POR (323)
Florence: Anastasia Grymalska ITA (310)
Hilton Head Island: Alexandra Mueller USA (n/a)
Madrid: Lucia Cervera-Vazquez ESP (504)
Mie: Miharu Imanishi JPN (n/a)
Paros: Tamara Curovic SRB (n/a)
Surabaya: Sandy Gumulya INA (335)

Riser of the Week (top 100):
Yung-Jan Chan TPE (86), Up 37
Another Asian who had a breakthrough on the Paris clay, Chan had lost easily in the first round last year to Jarmila Gajdosova (27), but this year won three matches in the qualifiers, before making the third rounds, racking up wins over Klara Zakopalova (36) and Jill Craybas (148), before falling to Maria Sharapova (4).

Riser of the Week (other):
Silvia Soler-Espinosa ESP (135), Up 25
Soler didn't get far in the French Open, losing in the second round to eventual champion Li Na, but did manage four match wins, qualifying for the main draw with wins over Vitalia Diatcehnko (132) and Kai-Chen Chang (154). She then won a main draw match over Elena Vesnina (41), a major improvement from her second round qualy loss from the year previous.

Dropper of the Week (top 100):
Nadia Petrova RUS (43), Down 15
Petrova was a quarterfinalist at last year's French Open, beating Agnes Szavay (32) and Venus Williams (n/a), along the way. This year, she couldn't get out of the first round, losing in three sets to Anastasia Rodionova (346).

Dropper of the Week (other):
Yaroslava Shvedova RUS (117), Down 65
Shvedova had seemed like a breakthrough player after last year's French, where she was a surprise quarterfinalist, having beaten Agnieszka Radwanska (9), Alisa Kleybanova (26) and Jarmila Gajdosova (27) along the way. However, she has struggled to follow on this result since, and took a big drop after losing in the first round to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (10) this year.

1 (1). Kim Clijsters BEL - 838.9
Last week: Roland Garros R64 (l. Rus)

2 (2). Caroline Wozniacki DEN - 827.0
Last week: Roland Garros R32 (l. Hantuchova)

3 (3). Vera Zvonareva RUS - 817.9
Last week: Roland Garros R16 (l. Pavlyuchenkova)

4 (4). Maria Sharapova RUS - 807.5
Last week: Roland Garros SF (l. Li)

5 (5). Victoria Azarenka BLR - 806.7
Last week: Roland Garros QF (l. Li)

6 (8). Na Li CHN - 805.0
Last week: Roland Garros W

7 (7). Petra Kvitova CZE - 794.0
Last week: Roland Garros R16 (l. Li)

8 (15). Andrea Petkovic GER - 783.9
Last week: Roland Garros QF (l. Sharapova)

9 (14). Agnieszka Radwanska POL - 782.6
Last week: Roland Garros R16 (l. Sharapova)

10 (13). Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS - 781.3
Last week: Roland Garros QF (l. Schiavone)

11 (11). Shuai Peng CHN - 781.0
Last week: Roland Garros R32 (l. Schiavone)

12 (16). Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS - 777.9
Last week: Roland Garros QF (l. Bartoli)

13 (10). Francesca Schiavone ITA - 775.8
Last week: Roland Garros F (l. Li)

14 (12). Flavia Pennetta ITA - 774.0
Last week: Roland Garros R128 (l. Lepchenko)

15 (22). Marion Bartoli FRA - 773.6
Last week: Roland Garros SF (l. Schiavone)

16 (9). Samantha Stosur AUS - 772.8
Last week: Roland Garros R32 (l. Dulko)

17 (17). Kaia Kanepi EST - 771.4
Last week: Roland Garros R32 (l. Makarova)

18 (20). Yanina Wickmayer BEL - 770.0
Last week: Roland Garros R32 (l. A. Radwanska)

19 (19). Ana Ivanovic SRB - 765.8
Last week: Roland Garros R128 (l. Larsson)

20 (25). Ekaterina Makarova RUS - 764.3
Last week: Roland Garros R16 (l. Azarenka)

21 (21). Jelena Jankovic SRB - 761.2
Last week: Roland Garros R16 (l. Schiavone)

22 (23). Dominika Cibulkova SVK - 761.1
Last week: Roland Garros R128 (l. King)

23 (24). Julia Goerges GER - 760.6
Last week: Roland Garros R32 (l. Bartoli)

24 (18). Shahar Peer ISR - 757.1
Last week: Roland Garros R128 (l. Martinez Sanchez)

25 (31). Bethanie Mattek-Sands USA - 752.1
Last week: Roland Garros R32 (l. Jankovic)

In: Bethanie Mattek-Sands
Out: Elena Dementieva

June 6th Rankings

2011-06-12T12:53:00.000-07:00

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

May 23rd Rankings - Juniors

2011-06-11T08:24:00.000-07:00

ATP U20 - The rankings for all players under 20 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Duckworth moves up to the bottom of the top 10, after winning a futures event in Poland,

1 (1). Bernard Tomic AUS (18.5) - #86, +2
Last week: None

2 (2). Ryan Harrison USA (19.0) - #96, -2
Last week: None

3 (3). Pablo Carreno-Busta ESP (19.8) - #247, +9
Last week: Cremona CH SF

4 (5). Roberto Carballes-Baena ESP (18.1) - #287, +7
Last week: None

5 (6). Filip Krajinovic SRB (19.2) - #302, +12
Last week: None

6 (4). Facundo Arguello ARG (18.8) - #306, -13
Last week: Paraguay F1 FU R32

7 (8). Christian Lindell SWE (19.5) - #340, +3
Last week: Dusseldorf (0-3)

8 (9). Javier Marti ESP (19.3) - #341, +3
Last week: None

9 (7). Di Wu CHN (19.7) - #344, -22
Last week: China F6 FU QF

10 (-). James Duckworth AUS (19.3) - #355, +40
Last week: Poland F1 FU W

ATP U18 - The rankings for all players under 18 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Liam Broady GBR (17.3) - #509, -7
Last week: None

2 (2). Juan Ignacio Londero ARG (17.7) - #737, -4
Last week: Paraguay F1 FU R32

3 (3). Robert Rumler CZE (17.4) - #778, -11
Last week: Poland F1 FU R32

ITF Juniors - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

American Marcos Giron makes his first appearance in the top 10, entering at #4. Filip Horansky also rises into the top 10. Displaced are Dominic Thiem and Luke Saville.

1 (1). Jiri Vesely CZE (17.8)
2 (2). Andres Artundeo Martinavarr ESP (17.6)
3 (3). Roberto Carballes Baena ESP (18.1)
4 (-). Marcos Giron USA (17.8)
5 (5). Oliver Golding GBR (17.6)
6 (4). Joris De Loore BEL (18.0)
7 (6). George Morgan GBR (18.2)
8 (-). Filip Hornasky SVK (18.3)
9 (8). Mate Delic CRO (18.0)
10 (10). Mathias Borgue FRA (17.3)

ITF Juniors U17 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Kyle Edmund moves into the top 10, with Miki Jankovic dropping out.

1 (1). Alexios Halebian USA (16.9) - #26, +5
2 (3). Thiago Moura Monteiro BRA (16.9) - #33, +7
3 (4). Gianluigi Quinzi ITA (15.3) - #35, +6
4 (2). Enzo Couacaud FRA (16.2) - #40, -3
5 (5). Jae Hwan Kim KOR (16.6) - #42, +1
6 (6). Laurent Lokoli FRA (16.5) - #47, +1
7 (7). Nikola Milojevic SRB (15.9) - #51, +2
8 (8). Pedja Krstin SRB (16.7) - #54, +5
9 (-). Kyle Edmund (16.3) - #59, +6
10 (9). Filip Veger CRO (16.4) - #62, +1

ITF Juniors U16 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Geens replaces Djere at the bottom of the top 10.

1 (1). Gianluigi Quinzi ITA (15.3) - #35, +6
2 (2). Nikola Milojevic SRB (15.9) - #51, +2
3 (4). Guillermo Nunez CHI (15.8) - #141, +4
4 (3). Yoshihito Nishioka JPN (15.6) - #150, -8
5 (6). Wayne Montgomery RSA (15.8) - #158, +8
6 (5). Quentin Halys FRA (14.5) - #174, -9
7 (7). Elias Ymer SWE (15.1) - #191, +3
8 (8). Chi-Shan Jao TPE (15.9) - #219, +5
9 (9). Blake Mott AUS (15.0) - #222, +8
10 (-). Clement Geens BEL (15.1) - #240, n/a

May 23rd Rankings - Women

2011-06-09T21:27:00.000-07:00

Shifts in the bottom half of the top 10 see the retired Elena Dementieva rise two spots, surpassing Petra Kvitova and Na Li, while Franesca Schiavone displaces Flavia Pennetta at the bottom of the top 10, a week before she has major points to defend.

Winners:

Brussels
#1 Caroline Wozniacki DEN (2)
1st round Bye
2nd round Varvara Lepchenko USA (67) | 6-4 7-6(5)
Quarters #6 Yanina Wickmayer BEL (20) | 2-0 Retired
Semis #3 Franecsca Schiavone ITA (10) | 6-3 6-3
Final #8 Shuai Peng CHN (11) | 2-6 6-3 6-3
Average Opponent Rank 27.0

Strasbourg
#2 Andrea Petkovic GER (15)
1st round Anna-Lena Groenefeld GER (173) | 6-3 6-1
2nd round Shuai Zhang CHN (99) | 6-1 6-3
Quarters #5 Maria Kirilenko RUS (27) | 6-4 6-3
Semis #6 Daniela Hantuchova SVK (32) | 6-4 3-6 6-4
Final #1 Marion Bartoli FRA (22) | 2-6 6-3 6-3
Average Opponent Rank 70.6

It seems absurd how often Caroline Wozniacki plays, as the #1 seed for Roland Garros took to the court in Brussels, winning the tournament with some solid victories over top 15 players. It's all well and good for her to win these types of titles, but you have to wonder about her playing a tough final on the weekend before a major.

Andrea Petkovic won her second career title in Strasbourg, and while she didn't face any top opponents, she got some solid wins over three top 35 players, that could serve her in good stead as she heads to Paris.

ITF events:

25K
Brescia: #7 Irina Buryachok UKR (239) d. #8 Giulia Gatto-Monticone ITA (241) | 6-7(5) 6-2 6-2
Goyang: Chanel Simmonds RSA (218) d. #8 Ye-Ra Lee KOR (369) | 6-7(9) 6-1 7-6(3)
Izmir: Mihaela Buzarenscu ROU (229) d. #2 Naomi Broady GBR (274) | 7-5 6-4
Karuizawa: Misa Eguchi JPN (390) d. #3 Rika Fujiwara JPN (319) | 6-3 6-3
Moscow: Yulia Putintseva RUS (n/a) d. Veronika Kapshay UKR (372) | 6-2 6-1

10K
Bastad: Yuliana Lizarazo COL (342)
Durban: Katerina Kramperova CZE (584)
Itaparica: Andrea Benitez ARG (363)
Landisville: Robin Anderson USA (n/a)
Rethymno: Alexandra Artamonova RUS (545)
Santa Coloma De Farners: Viktorija Golubic SUI (400)

Riser of the Week (top 100):
Ayumi Morita JPN (66), Up 5
No real big risers this week, so the award goes to Morita, who won a couple of matches in Brussels, beating Zheng Jie (89) to make the quarterfinals, before losing to Francesca Schiavone (10). She also dropped a first round loss from Strasbourg last year, but it wasn't a bad won, to Anastasia Rodionova (57).

Riser of the Week (other):
Alison Van Uytvanck BEL (191), Up 51
Is this another superstar from Belgium? The 17-year-old Van Uytvanck showed some major potential at a home event in Brussels, winning three matches to qualify for the main draw, then beating Patty Schnyder (49), before losing to her countrywoman, Yanina Wickmayer (20). It looks like she will be one to watch in the years to come.

Dropper of the Week (top 100):
Jie Zheng CHN (89), Down 22
Zheng had a huge result this time last year, making the final on the clay at Warsaw, which included a win over Caroline Wozniacki (2). This time, she played in Brussels, and lost first round to Ayumi Morita, sending her falling heavily, making it a total drop of 30 places in two weeks.

Dropper of the Week (other):
Aleksandra Krunic SRB (227), Down 35
Krunic, an 18-year-old Serbian, won an ITF event in Moscow this week last year, with no particularily impressive wins, but still a strong result. She tried to defend this week, but lost in the quarterfinals, when she had to retire against Yulia Putintseva (n/a)

1 (1). Kim Clijsters BEL - 844.6
Last week: None

2 (2). Caroline Wozniacki DEN - 827.4
Last week: Brussels W

3 (3). Vera Zvonareva RUS - 814.3
Last week: Brussels SF (l. Peng)

4 (4). Maria Sharapova RUS - 798.8
Last week: None

5 (5). Victoria Azarenka BLR - 798.5
Last week: None

6 (8). Elena Dementieva RUS - 788.2
Last week: None

7 (6). Petra Kvitova CZE - 786.0
Last week: None

8 (7). Na Li CHN - 785.5
Last week: None

9 (9). Samantha Stosur AUS - 782.8
Last week: None

10 (11). Francesca Schiavone ITA - 780.8
Last week: Brussels SF (l. Wozniacki)

11 (13). Shuai Peng CHN - 780.6
Last week: Brussels F (l. Wozniacki)

12 (10). Flavia Pennetta ITA - 779.7
Last week: None

13 (12). Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS - 778.0
Last week: None

14 (14). Agnieszka Radwanska POL - 776.7
Last week: None

15 (16). Andrea Petkovic GER - 776.2
Last week: Strasbourg W

16 (15). Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS - 774.8
Last week: None

17 (17). Kaia Kanepi EST - 770.1
Last week: Brussles R32 (Q)

18 (18). Shahar Peer ISR - 767.0
Last week: Brussels R32 (l. Dellacqua)

19 (19). Ana Ivanovic SRB - 766.7
Last week: None

20 (21). Yanina Wickmayer BEL - 765.5
Last week: Brussels QF (l. Wozniacki)

21 (20). Jelena Jankovic SRB - 764.9
Last week: Brussels R16 (l. Arvidsson)

22 (23). Marion Bartoli FRA - 764.4
Last week: Strasbourg F (l. Petkovic)

23 (22). Dominika Cibulkova SVK - 763.0
Last week: None

24 (24). Julia Goerges GER - 759.3
Last week: None

25 (25). Ekaterina Makarova RUS - 754.4
Last week: None

In: None
Out: None

May 23rd Rankings

2011-06-05T17:55:00.000-07:00

The top 5 remain the same as they skipped the week to prepare for the French Open, but there were some changes, as Juan Martin del Potro moved up to 6th, past David Ferrer, and Stanislas Wawrinka reentered the top 10, coming up to 9th, dopping Tomas Berdych out and Mardy Fish down one place.

Winners:

Nice
#3 Nicolas Almagro ESP (14)
1st round Bye
2nd round Carlos Berlocq ARG (69) | 6-7(5) 6-4 6-3
Quarters Pablo Andujar ESP (78) | 6-1 6-4
Semis #2 Tomas Berdych CZE (12) | 6-4 6-4
Final Victor Hanescu ROU (75) | 6-7(5) 6-3 6-3
Average Opponent Rank 58.5

Almagro won the last regular tournament before Roland Garros, and while the top players weren't there, he did get a nice win over Tomas Berdych in the semifinals, along with taking out a group of guys in the 70s.

The other tournament this week was in Dusseldorf, where eight nations contested the world team cup. That event was won by the hosts, Germany, who beat Argentina in the final. The star for Germany was Florian Mayer, who was undefeated on the week, taking out Viktor Troicki (16), Marcel Granollers (62) and Juan Monaco (70) to lead his team.

Challengers:
Cremona: #1 Igor Kunitsyn RUS (93) d. #2 Rainer Schuettler GER (111) | 6-2 7-6(2)
Fergana: #1 Dudi Sela ISR (83) d. #6 Greg Jones AUS (235) | 6-2 6-1

Futures:
Bosnia & Herzegovina F3: Damir Dzumhur BIH (n/a)
Brazil F14: Guilherme Clezar BRA (481)
Bulgaria F3: Razvan Sabau ROU (401)
China F5: Ze Zhang CHN (492)
Czech Republic F2: Daniel Koellerer AUT (211)
Israel F4: Amir Weintraub ISR (368
Italy F10: Alessandro Giannessi ITA (387)
Korea F1: Young-Jun Kim KOR (313)
Mexico F3: Jimmy Wang TPE (391)
Morocco F2: Bassam Beidas LIB (n/a)
Paraguay F1: Martin Alund ARG (277)
Poland F1: James Duckworth AUS (355)
South Africa F1: Ruan Roelofse RSA (576)
Spain F15: Ignacio Coll-Riudavets ESP (598)
Sweden F3: Julien Obry FRA (662)
Turkey F18: Denys Molchanov UKR (468)

Riser of the Week (top 100):
Victor Hanescu ROU (75), Up 12
Hanescu, who was a regular around the edge of the top 25 for much of last year, has fallen quite a bit this season, and is fighting to get back up towards that level. He had a big boost in that direction this week, as he made the finals of Nice, taking a couple of solid wins over Robin Haase (42) and Alexandr Dolgopolov (27), before losing to Almagro in the final.

Riser of the Week (other):
Ignacio Coll-Riudavets ESP (598), Up 108
Coll-Riudavets was ranked outside the top 700 this time last week, so winning a futures event, which he did in Valldoreix, Spain, was a huge lift to him. He got a few wins over playres ranked above him in David Estruch (558), Gabriel Trujillo-Soler (357) and Jose Checa-Calvo (497)

Dropper of the Week (top 100):
Olivier Rochus BEL (85), Down 13
The veteran Belgian had notched a marquee win at Nice last year, where he beat Robin Soderling (4), but with that result falling off, he was unable to replace it this year, as he lost first round to Denis Istomin (56) at the same event.

Dropper of the Week (other):
Marius Copil ROU (268), Down 42
The young Romanian didn't register a result this week, as he was playing qualies at RG, and fell because a great showing from Cremona last year dropped off, which saw him qualify and then make it all the way to the final, beating young Bernard Tomic (86).

1 (1). Novak Djokovic SRB - 841.1
Last week: None

2 (2). Rafael Nadal ESP - 836.0
Last week: None

3 (3). Roger Federer SUI - 828.0
Last week: None

4 (4). Robin Soderling SWE - 803.5
Last week: Dusseldorf (3-0)

5 (5). Andy Murray GBR - 798.1
Last week: None

6 (7). Juan Martin del Potro ARG - 787.2
Last week: None

7 (6). David Ferrer ESP - 786.5
Last week: Nice QF (l. Dolgopolov)

8 (8). David Nalbandian ARG - 777.1
Last week: None

9 (11). Stanislas Wawrinka SUI - 775.2
Last week: None

10 (9). Mardy Fish USA - 774.5
Last week: Dusseldorf 1-1

11 (12). Gael Monfils FRA - 774.3
Last week: None

12 (10). Tomas Berdych CZE - 774.0
Last week: Nice SF (l. Almagro)

13 (13). Jurgen Melzer AUT - 772.2
Last week: None

14 (14). Nicolas Almagro ESP - 771.2
Last week: Nice W

15 (15). Andy Roddick USA - 768.1
Last week: None

16 (18). Viktor Troicki SRB - 765.0
Last week: Dusseldorf (2-1)

17 (17). Jo-Wilfried Tsonga FRA - 764.4
Last week: None

18 (16). Richard Gasquet FRA - 763.5
Last week: None

19 (19). Gilles Simon FRA - 757.9
Last week: None

20 (20). Marin Cilic CRO - 756.3
Last week: None

21 (23). Florian Mayer GER - 754.5
Last week: Dusseldorf (3-0)

22 (21). Lleyton Hewitt AUS - 754.4
Last week: None

23 (22). Mikhail Youzhny RUS - 751.1
Last week: Dusseldorf (1-2)

24 (24). Philipp Kohlschreiber GER - 748.4
Last week: Dusseldorf (2-2)

25 (25). Michael Llodra FRA - 748.2
Last week: None

In: None
Out: None

May 16th Rankings - Juniors

2011-05-30T21:09:00.000-07:00

ATP U20 - The rankings for all players under 20 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Dimitrov ages out from the top spot, with Tomic inheriting it. Carballes-Baena enters in 5th, to replace him, while Kudla comes in in 10th, replacing Sock.

1 (2). Bernard Tomic AUS (18.5) - #88, +7
Last week: None

2 (3). Ryan Harrison USA (19.0) - #94, +3
Last week: Zagreb CH R32

3 (4). Pablo Carreno-Busta ESP (19.8) - #256, +1
Last week: None

4 (7). Facundo Arguello ARG (18.7) - #293, +14
Last week: None

5 (-). Roberto Carballes-Baena ESP (18.1) - #294, n/a
Last week: Spain F15 FU F

6 (5). Filip Krajinovic SRB (19.2) - #314, -21
Last week: Italy F9 FU R16

7 (6). Di Wu CHN (19.6) - #322, -17
Last week: China F5 FU QF

8 (9). Christian Lindell SWE (19.4) - #343, +5
Last week: Zagreb CH Q R2

9 (8). Javier Marti ESP (19.3) - #344, -9
Last week: Bordeaux CH Q R1

10 (-). Denis Kudla USA (18.7) - #378, +16
Last week: USA F12 FU SF

ATP U18 - The rankings for all players under 18 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

A new entry at #1, as Britain's Liam Broady enters this ranking.

1 (-). Liam Broady GBR (17.3) - #502, n/a
Last week: Great Britain F7 FU R32

2 (1). Juan Ignacio Londero ARG (17.7) - #733, +16
Last week: Argentina F5 FU QF

3 (2). Robert Rumler CZE (17.4) - #767, -2
Last week: Czech Republic F1 FU R32

ITF Juniors - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Jiri Vesely CZE (17.8)
2 (2). Andres Artundeo Martinavarr ESP (17.6)
3 (3). Roberto Carballes Baena ESP (18.1)
4 (4). Joris De Loore BEL (18.0)
5 (5). Oliver Golding GBR (17.6)
6 (6). George Morgan GBR (18.2)
7 (8). Mate Delic CRO (18.0)
8 (7). Dominic Thiem AUT (17.6)
9 (9). Luke Saville AUS (17.2)
10 (10). Mathias Borgue FRA (17.2)

ITF Juniors U17 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Veger returns, replacing Edmund.

1 (1). Alexios Halebian USA (16.9) - #31, +2
2 (3). Enzo Couacaud FRA (16.2) - #37, +3
3 (2). Thiago Moura Monteiro BRA (16.9) - #40, -1
4 (4). Gianluigi Quinzi ITA (15.2) - #41, 0
5 (5). Jae Hwan Kim KOR (16.6) - #43, 0
6 (6). Laurent Lokoli FRA (16.5) - #48, +1
7 (7). Nikola Milojevic SRB (15.9) - #53, +9
8 (8). Pedja Krstin SRB (16.6) - #59, +6
9 (-). Filip Veger CRO (16.3) - #63, +8
10 (10). Miki Jankovic SRB (16.6) - #64, +6

ITF Juniors U16 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Alcaraz Ivorra ages out, replaced by Ymer

1 (1). Gianluigi Quinzi ITA (15.2) - #41, 0
2 (2). Nikola Milojevic SRB (15.9) - #53, +9
3 (4). Yoshihito Nishioka JPN (15.6) - #142, +2
4 (3). Guillermo Nunez CHI (15.8) - #145, -2
5 (7). Quentin Halys FRA (14.5) - #165, +16
6 (5). Wayne Montgomery RSA (15.8) - #166, -8
7 (-). Elias Ymer SWE (15.0) - #194, n/a
8 (8). Chi-Shan Jao TPE (15.9) - #224, -2
9 (9). Blake Mott AUS (15.0) - #230, +9
10 (10). Laslo Djere SRB (15.9) - #263, +9

May 16th Rankings - Women

2011-05-30T20:45:00.000-07:00

Just some minor changes in the top 10 this week, as Rome champion Maria Sharapova moves up to #4, past Victoria Azarenka, and Sam Stosur trades places with Flavia Pennetta, with the Aussie heading up to 9th.

Winners:

Rome
#7 Maria Sharapova RUS (4)
1st round Bye
2nd round Ekaterina Makarova RUS (25) | 6-1 6-1
3rd round #10 Shahar Peer ISR (18) | 6-2 6-2
Quarters #3 Victoria Azarenka BLR (5) | 4-6 3-0 Retired
Semis #1 Caroline Wozniacki DEN (2) | 7-5 6-3
Final #6 Samantha Stosur AUS (9) | 6-2 6-4
Average Opponent Rank 11.8

Maria Sharapova's biggest clay win of her career was an incredibly impressive showing in Rome, as she played all top-25 players, and three of the top ten. She dropped just one set, and was somewhat fortunate that the woman who took that from her, Azarenka, was unable to finish out the match. Her wins over the top seed, Wozniacki, and a strong clay-courter in Stosur, however, signal that she is ready to contend at Roland Garros next week.

ITF events:

100K
Prague: #4 Magdalena Rybarikova (77) d. #1 Petra Kvitova CZE (6) | 6-3 6-4

50K
Kurume: Rika Fujiwara JPN (326) d. Monique Adamczak AUS (n/a) | 6-3 6-1
Raleigh: Petra Rampre SLO (227) d. #6 Camila Giorgi ITA (170) | 6-3 6-2
Reggio Emilia: #6 Sloane Stephens USA (109) d. #1 Anastasiya Yakimova BLR (119) | 6-3 6-1
Saint-Gaudens: #4 Anastasia Pivovarova RUS (95) d. #3 Arantxa Rus NED (114) | 7-6(4) 6-7(3) 6-2

25K
Zagreb: #8 Natalie Piquion FRA (302) d. Doroteja Eric SRB (297) | 6-3 3-6 6-1

10K
Bangkok: Luksika Kumkhum THA (349)
Bastad: Romana Caroline Tabak SVK (n/a)
Encarnacion: Veronica Cepede Royg PUR (327)
Heraklion: Despina Papamichail GRE (453)Istanbul: Jasmin Steinherr GER (545)

Itaparica: Andrea Benitez ARG (392)
New Delhi: Keren Shlomo ISR (525)
Tenerife: Victoria Larriere FRA (331)

Riser of the Week (top 100):
Polona Hercog SLO (73), Up 19
The 20-year-old Slovenian lost first round at Madrid this week last year, but had a much better time of it in Rome. She won two matches to qualify for the main draw, then promptly won twice more, beating Alexandra Dulgheru (37) and Andrea Petkovic (16), before losing to the eventual finalist, Sam Stosur.

Riser of the Week (other):
Petra Rampre SLO (227), Up 66
Slovenia locks out the top awards this week, as the veteran Rampre als had an excellent rise. Her strong result came on US hardcourts, at an ITF event in Raleigh, where she won the title, beating the likes of Timea Babos (154), Alexandra Stevenson (202) and Camila Giorgi (170).

Dropper of the Week (top 100):
Aravane Rezai FRA (76), Down 28
Rezai was very much a hot commodity this time last season, as whe had an excellent performance in winning Madrid, beating Justine Henin, Venus Williams, Jelena Jankovic (21) and Andrea Petkovic (15), among others, en route to the title. This year, though, things haven't gone as well for her, and she didn't play rome after losing early in Madrid, sending her well out of the top 50.

Dropper of the Week (other):
Johanna Konta AUS (261), Down 56
The young Aussie takes a tough fall after dropping an ITF win from last year, when she took the title at Raleigh. This win included her beating Lindsay Lee-Waters (185), Ahsha Rolle (204) and Mirjana Lucic (120), and without it, Konta drops away from the edge of the top 200.

1 (1). Kim Clijsters BEL - 845.4
Last week: None

2 (2). Caroline Wozniacki DEN - 823.6
Last week: Rome SF (l. Sharapova)

3 (3). Vera Zvonareva RUS - 815.8
Last week: None

4 (5). Maria Sharapova RUS - 800.5
Last week: Rome W

5 (4). Victoria Azarenka BLR - 798.8
Last week: Rome QF (l. Sharapova)

6 (6). Petra Kvitova CZE - 786.6
Last week: Prague ITF F (l. Rybarikova)

7 (7). Na Li CHN - 784.3
Last week: Rome SF (l. Stosur)

8 (8). Elena Dementieva RUS - 784.1
Last week: None

9 (10). Samantha Stosur AUS - 783.4
Last week: Rome F (l. Sharapova)

10 (9). Flavia Pennetta ITA - 780.6
Last week: Rome R64 (l. Mattek-Sands)

11 (12). Francesca Schiavone ITA - 780.5
Last week: Rome QF (l. Stosur)

12 (13). Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS - 778.8
Last week: Rome R16 (l. Azarenka)

13 (11). Shuai Peng CHN - 778.2
Last week: Rome R64 (l. McHale)

14 (14). Agnieszka Radwanska POL - 776.9
Last week: Rome R32 (l. Vesnina)

15 (15). Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS - 775.3
Last week: Rome R64 (l. Arn)

16 (17). Andrea Petkovic GER - 773.0
Last week: Rome R32 (l. Hercog)

17 (16). Kaia Kanepi EST - 771.9
Last week: Rome R64 (l. Oprandi)

18 (18). Shahar Peer ISR - 770.7
Last week: Rome R16 (l. Sharapova)

19 (19). Ana Ivanovic SRB - 770.2
Last week: Rome R32 (l. Wickmayer)

20 (20). Jelena Jankovic SRB - 766.8
Last week: Rome QF (l. Wozniacki)

21 (21). Yanina Wickmayer BEL - 765.2
Last week: Rome R16 (l. Wozniacki)

22 (22). Dominika Cibulkova SVK - 763.1
Last week: None

23 (23). Marion Bartoli FRA - 762.8
Last week: Rome R32 (l. Medina Garrigues)

24 (24). Julia Goerges GER - 759.9
Last week: None

25 (27). Ekaterina Makarova RUS - 755.2
Last week: Rome R32 (l. Sharapova)

In: Ekaterina Makarova
Out: Nadia Petrova

May 16th Rankings

2011-05-30T20:40:00.000-07:00

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

May 9th Rankings - Juniors

2011-05-19T18:42:00.001-07:00

ATP U20 - The rankings for all players under 20 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Grigor Dimitrov BUL (19.9) - #60, -3
Last week: Prague CH R16

2 (2). Bernard Tomic AUS (18.5) - #95, -1
Last week: None

3 (3). Ryan Harrison USA (18.9) - #97, +3
Last week: Savannah CH SF

4 (6). Pablo Carreno-Busta ESP (19.8) - #257, +44
Last week: Rome CH QF

5 (4). Filip Krajinovic SRB (19.2) - #293, -88
Last week: None

6 (7). Di Wu CHN (19.6) - #305, +9
Last week: None

7 (5). Facundo Arguello ARG (18.7) - #307, -37
Last week: Argentina F4 FU SF

8 (8). Javier Marti ESP (19.3) - #335, +7
Last week: None

9 (9). Christian Lindell SWE (19.4) - #348, +3
Last week: None

10 (10). Jack Sock USA (18.6) - #383, +2
Last week: None

ATP U18 - The rankings for all players under 18 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Kubler no longer qualifies, leaving just Rumler and Londero.

1 (3). Juan Ignacio Londero ARG (17.7) - #749, +12
Last week: None

2 (2). Robert Rumler CZE (17.4) - #765, -60
Last week: Argentina F4 R16

ITF Juniors - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Jiri Vesely CZE (17.8)
2 (2). Andres Artundeo Martinavarr ESP (17.6)
3 (3). Roberto Carballes Baena ESP (18.1)
4 (4). Joris De Loore BEL (18.0)
5 (5). Oliver Golding GBR (17.6)
6 (6). George Morgan GBR (18.2)
7 (7). Dominic Thiem AUT (17.6)
8 (8). Mate Delic CRO (18.0)
9 (9). Luke Saville AUS (17.2)
10 (10). Mathias Borgue FRA (17.2)

ITF Juniors U17 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Veger drops out, replaced by Krstin.

1 (1). Alexios Halebian USA (16.9) - #33, -1
2 (2). Thiago Moura Monteiro BRA (16.9) - #39, -2
3 (3). Enzo Couacaud FRA (16.1) - #40, +1
4 (4). Gianluigi Quinzi ITA (15.2) - #41, +2
5 (5). Jae Hwan Kim KOR (16.6) - #43, +2
6 (6). Laurent Lokoli FRA (16.5) - #49, 0
7 (7). Nikola Milojevic SRB (15.8) - #62, +3
8 (-). Pedja Krstin SRB (16.6) - #65, +8
9 (8). Kyle Edmund GBR (16.3) - #66, +2
10 (10). Miki Jankovic SRB (16.6) - #70, +1

ITF Juniors U16 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Py ages out, replaced by Djere.

1 (1). Gianluigi Quinzi ITA (15.2) - #41, +2
2 (2). Nikola Milojevic SRB (15.8) - #62, +3
3 (3). Guillermo Nunez CHI (15.7) - #143, +4
4 (4). Yoshihito Nishioka JPN (15.6) - #144, +4
5 (5). Wayne Montgomery RSA (15.8) - #158, +7
6 (6). Albert Alcaraz Ivorra ESP (15.9) - #167, +7
7 (7). Quentin Halys FRA (14.5) - #181, +7
8 (8). Chi-Shan Jao TPE (15.9) - #222, +2
9 (9). Blake Mott AUS (15.0) - #239, +8
10 (-). Laslo Djere SRB (15.9) - #272, +5

May 9th Rankings - Women

2011-05-19T18:40:00.000-07:00

The top 10 changes significantly, with a big move up for Madrid winner Petra Kvitova, up four places to 6th. Venus Williams' removal from the rankings sees Victoria Azarenka come up to 4th, and Miaria Sharapova up to 5th. Also coming up is the retired Elena Dementieva, who moves back into the top 10, ending up 8th. Sam Stosur also rises a place to rejoin the top 10. The lone player dropping out of the top 10 is Shuai Peng, who falls two spots to 11th.

Winners:

Madrid
#16 Petra Kvitova CZE (6)
1st round Alexandra Dulgheru ROU (35) | 6-4 6-1
2nd round Chanelle Scheepers RSA (95) | 6-3 6-3
3rd round #2 Vera Zvonareva RUS (3) | 6-1 6-4
Quarters Dominika Cibulkova SVK (22) | 6-4 6-1
Semis #6 Na Li CHN (7) | 6-3 6-1
Final #4 Victoria Azarenka BLR (4) | 7-6(3) 6-4
Average Opponent Rank 27.7

Kvitova had a spectacular week on the clay, not dropping a single set, and taking out three top ten players on her way to the title. Her great showing this week
sets her up as a serious threat as the ladies head towards Paris in a couple of weeks.

ITF events:

100K
Cagnes-Sur-Mer: Sorana Cirstea ROU (82) d. Pauline Parmentier FRA (139) | 6-7(5) 6-2 6-2

50K
Fukuoka: Tamarine Tanasugarn THA (110) d. #3 Yung-Jan Chan TPE (133) | 6-4 5-7 7-5
Indian Harbour Beach: Melinda Czink HUN (n/a) d. #1 Alison Riske USA (97) | 4-6 6-1 6-4
Prague: #1 Lucie Hradecka CZE (42) d. Paula Ormaechea ARG (179) | 4-6 6-3 6-2

25K
Bukhara: #5 Nikola Hofmanova AUT (306) d. Marta Sirotkina RUS (248) | 6-4 7-5

10K
Athens-Petroupoli: Diana Marcinkevica LAT (469)
Bangkok: Luksika Kumkhum THA (379)
Casarano: Irina Khromacheva RUS (n/a)
Edinburgh: Alison Van Uytvanck BEL (245)
Gran Canaria-Maspalomas: Sandra Soler-Sola ESP (163)
Hyderabad: Keren Shlomo ISR (527)
Istanbul: Sofia Kvatsabaia GEO (427)
Wiesbaden: Yuliana Lizarazo COL (381)

Riser of the Week (top 100):
Petra Kvitova CZE (6), Up 4
It's impossible to ignore the Czech for this title, as her performance in Madrid was truly impressive. Three top ten wins lift her well ahead of the large group battling for position between 7th-15th.

Riser of the Week (other):
Paula Ormaechea ARG (179), Up 66
The 18-year-old Argentine had a good week at the ITF event in Prague, winning three matches to qualify for the main draw, then making her way to the final, beating Madison Brengle(162), Olga Savchuk (174) and Romina Oprandi (88) along the way.

Dropper of the Week (top 100):
Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez ESP (47), Down 18
Martinez Sanchez was the surprise winner in Rome last year, and without that victory on her record, she takes a strong drop. She beat Caroline Wozniacki (2) to win the title last year, in week that also saw her take out Ana Ivanovic (19), Jelena Jankovic (20) and Francesca Schiavone (12). This year in Madrid, she lost first round, having drawn Na Li (7)

Dropper of the Week (other):
Cagla Bucyukakcay TUR (249), Down 33
The Turkish #1 falls well away from the top 200, after dropping and ITF win from last season, at Kharkiv. She didn't have any great wins in that tournament, with the best coming over Kateryna Kozlova (271), but that series of wins still gave her a boost.

1 (1). Kim Clijsters BEL - 844.5
Last week: None

2 (2). Caroline Wozniacki DEN - 822.7
Last week: Madrid R16 (l. Goerges)

3 (3). Vera Zvonareva RUS - 813.9
Last week: Madrid R16 (l. Kvitova)

4 (5). Victoria Azarenka BLR - 796.6
Last week: Madrid F (l. Kvitova)

5 (6). Maria Sharapova RUS - 790.5
Last week: Madrid R16 (l. Cibulkova)

6 (10). Petra Kvitova CZE - 787.8
Last week: Madrid W

7 (7). Na Li CHN - 783.8
Last week: Madrid SF (l. Kvitova)

8 (12). Elena Dementieva RUS - 781.0
Last week: None

9 (8). Flavia Pennetta ITA - 780.8
Last week: Madrid R64 (l. Parra Santonja)

10 (11). Samantha Stosur AUS - 780.5
Last week: Madrid R16 (l. Pavlyuchenkova)

11 (9). Shuai Peng CHN - 780.5
Last week: Madrid R64 (l. Schiavone)

12 (13). Francesca Schiavone ITA - 780.4
Last week: Madrid R16 (l. Mattek-Sands)

13 (20). Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS - 777.9
ast week: Madrid QF (l. Goerges)

14 (14). Agnieszka Radwanska POL - 777.6
Last week: Madrid R32 (l. Gajdosova)

15 (17). Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS - 775.6
Last week: Madrid R64 (l. Cibulkova)

16 (15). Kaia Kanepi EST - 775.4
Last week: Madrid R64 (l. Goerges)

17 (16). Andrea Petkovic GER - 774.4
Last week: Madrid R32 (l. Parra Santonja)

18 (19). Shahar Peer ISR - 773.7
Last week: Madrid R64 (l. Kleybanova)

19 (18). Ana Ivanovic SRB - 769.2
Last week: Madrid R64 (l. Mattek-Sands)

20 (21). Jelena Jankovic SRB - 766.6
Last week: Madrid R32 (l. Safarova)

21 (22). Yanina Wickmayer BEL - 764.0
Last week: Madrid
R64 (l. Makarova)

22 (25). Dominika Cibulkova SVK - 762.7
Last week: Madrid QF (l. Kvitova)

23 (23). Marion Bartoli FRA - 762.1
Last week: Madrid R32 (l. Pavlyuchenkova)

24 (28). Julia Goerges - 759.2
Last week: Madrid SF (l. Azarenka)

25 (24). Nadia Petrova RUS - 757.6
Last week: Madrid R64 (l. King)

In: Julia Goerges
Out: Venus Williams

May 9th Rankings

2011-05-13T21:48:00.000-07:00

Novak Djokovic's win in Madrid still has him at #2, but the margin between the Serb and Nadal is now razor thin. If Djokovic continues his good form in Rome this week, he should stand a great chance of seizing top spot. Tomas Berdych comes back into the top ten, rising two spots to 9th, changing places with Jurgen Melzer who drops to 11th.

Winners:

Madrid
#2 Novak Djokovic SRB (2)
1st round Bye
2nd round Kevin Anderson RSA (47) | 6-3 6-4
3rd round Guillermo Garcia-Lopez ESP (30) | 6-1 6-2
Quarters #6 David Ferrer ESP (6) | 6-4 4-6 6-3
Semis Thomaz Bellucci BRA (43) | 4-6 6-4 6-1
Final #1 Rafael Nadal ESP (1) | 7-5 6-4
Average Opponent Rank 25.4

Djokovic's supremacy extended to the clay, as he beat Nadal in Spain, a shocking result that truly shows how far he has advanced to the top of the world game. He was put under pressure in a couple of matches, in the quarters and semis, but came through well, before doing a great job to resist a fightback from Nadal in the first set.

Challengers:
Prague: Lukas Rosol CZE (110) d. #8 Alex Bogomolov Jr. USA (102) | 7-6(1) 5-2 Retired
Rome: Simone Bolelli ITA (115) d. Eduardo Schwank ARG (149) | 2-6 6-1 6-3
Savannah: Wayne Odesnik USA (74) d. #3 Donald Young USA (86) | 6-4 6-4

Futures:
Argentina F4: Martin Alund ARG (279)
Bosnia & Herzegovina F1: Toni Androic CRO (478)
Brazil F12: Tiago Lopes BRA (547)
Bulgaria F1: Axel Michon FRA (324)
Great Britain F6: Mathieu Rodrigues FRA (321)
Italy F8: Jonathan Dasnieres de Veigy FRA (280)
Kazakhstan F2: Federico Gaio ITA (572)
Spain F14: Joao Sousa POR (268)
Sweden F1: Ervin Eleskovic SWE (357)
Turkey F16: Riccardo Sinicropi ITA (521)
USA F11: Gerald Melzer AUT (501)
Venezuela F2: David Souto VEN (451)

Riser of the Week (top 100):
Wayne Odesnik USA (74), Up 31
The American, who faced an ATP ban after being caught transporting HGH in December 2009, has done well for himself by rebuidling his ranking in the last few months. Odesnik had to qualify at a challenger in Savannah this week, and promptly went on an 8-0 run, including beating two players the USTA would surely rather see succeed, Ryan Harrison (97) and Donald Young (86), among others.

Riser of the Week (other):
Lukas Rosol CZE (110), Up 25
Rosol, who fell a fair margin last week, got most of it back with a home challenger win, as he took the title in Prague. He did benifit from two retirements, including from the returning Fernando Gonzalez (n/a), but also beat Julien Benneteau (45) on his way to the title.

Dropper of the Week (top 100):
Philipp Petzschner GER (56), Down 9
Petzschner had a bit of a quirk in his rankings, due to the scheduling change this year; he had last year and this year's Munich both on last week. This week, last year's came off, this was a week that saw him make the semis, including a big win over Tomas Berdych (9). The drop sent Petzschner out of the top 50.

Dropper of the Week (other):
Filip Krajinovic SRB (293), Down 88
The 19-year-old Serbian has not played a match since October, but still had a solid ranking thaks to a solid 2010. A lot of his ranking hinged on a semifinal in Belgrade, which saw him beat Horacio Zeballos (133), and beifit from the retirement of Novak Djokovic along the way.

1 (1). Rafael Nadal ESP - 837.5
Last week: Madrid F (l. Djokovic)

2 (2). Novak Djokovic SRB - 835.6
Last week: Madrid W

3 (3). Roger Federer SUI - 827.3
Last week: Madrid SF (l. Nadal)

4 (4). Robin Soderling SWE - 796.8
Last week: Madrid QF (l. Federer)

5 (5). Andy Murray GBR - 794.6
Last week: Madrid R16 (l. Bellucci)

6 (6). David Ferrer ESP - 789.2
Last week: Madrid QF (l. Djokovic)

7 (7). Juan Martin del Potro ARG - 785.1
Last week: Madrid R16 (Walkover)

8 (8). David Nalbandian ARG - 775.7
Last week: None

9 (11). Tomas Berdych CZE - 775.0
Last week: Madrid QF (l. Bellucci)

10 (10). Stanislas Wawrinka SUI - 773.4
Last week: Madrid R64 (l. Garcia-Lopez)

11 (9). Jurgen Melzer AUT - 773.3
Last week: Madrid R32 (l. Gimeno-Traver)

12 (12). Gael Monfils FRA - 771.8
Last week: Madrid R32 (l. Monaco)

13 (13). Mardy Fish USA - 771.2
Last week: Madrid R64 (l. Isner)

14 (14). Nicolas Almagro ESP - 770.8
Last week: Madrid R64 (l. Tsonga)

15 (15). Andy Roddick USA - 787.7
Last week: Madrid R64 (l. Cipolla)

16 (16). Richard Gasquet FRA - 763.4
Last week: Madrid R64 (l. Gimeno-Traver)

17 (18). Jo-Wilfried Tsonga FRA - 759.3
Last week: Madrid R16 (l. Soderling)

18 (17). Viktor Troicki SRB - 759.1
Last week: Madrid R64 (l. Mayer)

19 (19). Gilles Simon FRA - 756.4
Last week: Madrid R32 (l. Murray)

20 (21). Lleyton Hewitt AUS - 753.0
Last week: None

21 (20). Mikhail Youzhny RUS - 750.6
Last week: Madrid R64 (l. del Potro)

22 (22). Marin Cilic CRO - 749.6
Last week: Madrid R32 (l. del Potro)

23 (25). Michael Llodra FRA - 748.4
Last week: Madrid QF (l. Nadal)

24 (23). Alexandr Dolgopolov UKR - 748.0
Last week: Madrid R64 (l. Giraldo)

25 (27). Florian Mayer GER - 746.4
Last week: Madrid R32 (l. Bellucci)

In: Florian Mayer
Out: Fernando Verdasco

May 2nd Rankings - Juniors

2011-05-08T11:31:00.001-07:00

ATP U20 - The rankings for all players under 20 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Grigor Dimitrov BUL (19.9) - #57, +7
Last week: Munich QF (l. Mayer)

2 (3). Bernard Tomic AUS (18.5) - #94, +6
Last week: None

3 (2). Ryan Harrison USA (18.9) - #100, -6
Last week: Sarastoa CH R32

4 (4). Filip Krajinovic SRB (19.1) - #205, -1
Last week: None

5 (5). Facundo Arguello ARG (18.7) - #270, -13
Last week: Argentina F3 FU R16

6 (6). Pablo Carreno-Busta ESP (19.8) - #301, +4
Last week: Estoril Q R3

7 (7). Di Wu CHN (19.6) - #314, -1
Last week: None

8 (8). Javier Marti ESP (19.3) - #342, +2
Last week: None

9 (9). Christian Lindell SWE (19.4) - #351, -1
Last week: None

10 (-). Jack Sock USA (18.6) - #385, +2
Last week: None

ATP U18 - The rankings for all players under 18 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Jason Kubler AUS (17.9) - #488, +7
Last week: None

2 (2). Robert Rumler CZE (17.4) - #705, -6
Last week: Ostrava CH QR1

3 (3). Juan Ignacio Londero ARG (17.7) - #761, +1
Last week: Argentina F3 FU R32

ITF Juniors - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Borgue replaces Pavic at the bottom of the top 10.

1 (1). Jiri Vesely CZE (17.8)
2 (2). Andres Artundeo Martinavarr ESP (17.6)
3 (4). Roberto Carballes Baena ESP (18.1)
4 (3). Joris De Loore BEL (18.0)
5 (5). Oliver Golding GBR (17.5)
6 (7). George Morgan GBR (18.2)
7 (6). Dominic Thiem AUT (17.6)
8 (8). Mate Delic CRO (18.0)
9 (9). Luke Saville AUS (17.2)
10 (-). Mathias Borgue FRA (17.2)

ITF Juniors U17 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Jankovic replaces Cai in 10th.

1 (1). Alexios Halebian USA (16.8) - #32, +2
2 (2). Thiago Moura Monteiro BRA (16.9) - #37, +1
3 (4). Enzo Couacaud FRA (16.1) - #41, +2
4 (3). Gianluigi Quinzi ITA (15.2) - #43, -3
5 (5). Jae Hwan Kim KOR (16.6) - #45, +3
6 (6). Laurent Lokoli FRA (16.5) - #49, +1
7 (7). Nikola Milojevic SRB (15.8) - #65, +1
8 (8). Kyle Edmund GBR (16.3) - #68, 0
9 (9). Filip Veger CRO (16.3) - #70, +2
10 (-). Miki Jankovic SRB (16.5) - #71, +19

ITF Juniors U16 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Kyrgios ages out, replaced by Enzo Py.

1 (1). Gianluigi Quinzi ITA (15.2) - #43, -3
2 (2). Nikola Milojevic SRB (15.8) - #65, +1
3 (4). Guillermo Nunez CHI (15.7) - #147, 0
4 (5). Yoshihito Nishioka JPN (15.5) - #148, 0
5 (6). Wayne Montgomery RSA (15.8) - #165, +1
6 (7). Albert Alcaraz Ivorra ESP (15.9) - #174, +1
7 (8). Quentin Halys FRA (14.5) - #188, +2
8 (10). Chi-Shan Jao TPE (15.9) - #224, +2
9 (9). Blake Mott AUS (15.0) - #247, -23
10 (-). Enzo Py FRA (15.9) - #252, +1

May 2nd Rankings - Women

2011-05-08T10:54:00.000-07:00

Two big shifts in the top ten, as Flavia Pennetta comes up 5 places to 8th, with Sam Stosur dropping heavily, falling four places to 11th.

Winners:

Barcelona
#6 Roberta Vinci ITA (40)
1st round Silvia Soler-Espinosa ESP (167) | 6-2 6-3
2nd round Yaroslava Shvedova KAZ (50) | 6-1 6-4
Quarters Virginie Razzano FRA (55) | 6-4 6-1
Semis Laura Pous-Tio ESP (93) | 4-6 6-4 7-6(4)
Final Lucie Hradecka CZE (46) | 4-6 6-2 6-2
Average Opponent Rank 82.2

Estoril
Anabel Medina Garrigues ESP (60)
1st round Simona Halep ROU (74) | 7-6(5) 7-6(5)
2nd round #8 Greta Arn GER (51) | 6-2 1-0 Retired
Quarters #3 Klara Zakopalova CZE (36) | 6-3 7-5
Semis monica Niculescu ROU (64) | 6-1 6-3
Final Kristina Barrois GER (65) | 6-1 6-2
Average Opponent Rank 58

Vinci got somewhat fortunate in winning Barcelona, as she didn't face a single top 50 player, and no seed, after most of the tournament's higher ranked players went out in the first round.

Medina Garrigues had a similar run in Estoril, though she did get one well seeded player in Zakopalova. She didn't drop a set in taking the title, with some solid wins over players in the 50-70 range.

ITF events:

50K
Charlottesville: #6 Stephanie Dubois CAN (151) d. #8 Michelle Larcher de Brito POR (149) | 1-6 7-6(5) 6-1
Gifu: Sachie Ishizu JPN (259) d. Emily Webley-Smith GBR (422) | 6-1 6-3

25K
Chiasso: Monica Puig PUR (n/a) d. Andre Hlavackova CZE (102) | 7-6(4) 7-5
Karshi: #6 Isabella Holland AUS (375) d. #8 Tetyana Arefyeva UKR (360) | 7-5 6-4
Minsk: #5 Olga Puchkova RUS (340) d. Nadiya Kichenok UKR (n/a) | 6-2 7-5

10K
Antalya: Yana Buchina RUS (354)
Bangkok: Misa Eguchi JPN (n/a)
Bournemouth: Scarlett Werner GER (325)
San Severo: Olivia Sanchez FRA (179)
Sao Paulo: Andrea Benitez ARG (425)
Vic: Despina Papamichail GRE (474)
Zell am Harmersbach: Carina Witthoeft GER (n/a)

Riser of the Week (top 100):
Anabel Medina Garrigues ESP (60), Up 23
Garrigues' win in Estoril lifts her into the top 60, as she managed a series of wins against playres that were ranked ahead of her coming into the week.

Riser of the Week (other):
Sachie Ishizu JPN (259), Up 64
The 18-year-old Japanese player won a title at home in Gifu, beating a countrywoman in Junri Namagata (172), among others, lifting her into the top 300 for the first time.

Dropper of the Week (top 100):
Kaia Kanepi EST (15), Down 4
Kanepi didn't play this week, but drops as an ITF win from last year at Cagnes-sur-Mer falls off her rankings. No dominant wins in that one, but it did see her beating Anastasija Sevastova (35) and Lourdes Dominguez-Lino (61), among others.

Dropper of the Week (other):
Naomi Cavaday GBR (318), Down 51
Cavaday hasn't played since Novemeber, and took a big drop after losing an ITF win from last season, in which she took an event in Brescia. That win saw her get victories over Andrea Hlavackova (102), Stephanie Foretz Gacon (148) and Lara Arruabarrena-Vecino (124).

1 (1). Kim Clijsters BEL - 840.6
Last week: None

2 (2). Caroline Wozniacki DEN - 818.3
Last week: None

3 (3). Vera Zvonareva RUS - 809.3
Last week: None

4 (4). Venus Williams USA - 800.1
Last week: None

5 (5). Victoria Azarenka BLR - 789.9
Last week: None

6 (6). Maria Sharapova RUS - 786.9
Last week: None

7 (8). Na Li CHN - 777.9
Last week: None

8 (13). Flavia Pennetta ITA - 777.1
Last week: None

9 (9). Shuai Peng CHN - 776.6
Last week: None

10 (10). Petra Kvitova CZE - 776.4
Last week: None

11 (7). Samantha Stosur AUS - 776.3
Last week: None

12 (12). Elena Dementieva RUS - 776.0
Last week: None

13 (15). Francesca Schiavone ITA - 774.8
Last week: None

14 (14). Agnieszka Radwanska POL - 774.0
Last week: None

15 (11). Kaia Kanepi EST - 773.9
Last week: None

16 (17). Andrea Petkovic GER - 772.2
Last week: Stuttgart QF (l. Wozniacki)

17 (18). Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS - 770.8
Last week: None

18 (19). Ana Ivanovic SRB - 771.4
Last week: None

19 (16). Shahar Peer ISR - 770.7
Last week: None

20 (21). Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS - 769.5
Last week: None

21 (20). Jelena Jankovic SRB - 769.3
Last week: None

22 (22). Yanina Wickmayer BEL - 761.2
Last week: None

23 (23). Marion Bartoli FRA - 759.1
Last week: Barcelona R32 (l. Rybarikova)

24 (24). Nadia Petrova RUS - 756.6
Last week: None

25 (25). Dominika Cibulkova SVK - 755.8
Last week: None

In: None
Out: None

May 2nd Rankings

2011-05-08T09:17:00.000-07:00

Juan Martin del Potro, champion in Estoril, moves up three places to 7th, switching spots with Stanislas Wawrinka, who drops to 10th.

Winners:

Belgrade
#1 Novak Djokovic SRB (2)
1st round Bye
2nd round Adrian Ungur ROU (134) | 6-2 6-3
Quarters Blaz Kavcic SLO (92) | 6-3 6-2
Semis #7 Janko Tipsarevic SRB (32) | Walkover
Final Feliciano Lopez ESP (35) | 7-6(4) 6-2
Average Opponent Rank 87

Estoril
#8 Juan Martin del Potro ARG (7)
1st round Pedro Sousa POR (524) | 6-2 3-6 6-3
2nd round Alejandro Falla COL (112) | 6-2 6-1
Quarters #1 Robin Soderling SWE (4) | 6-4 7-5
Semis Pablo Cuevas URU (45) | 6-2 7-6(6)
Final #2 Fernando Verdasco ESP (24) | 6-2 6-2
Average Opponent Rank 141.8

Munich
#7 Nikolay Davydenko RUS (34)
1st round Andrey Kuznetsov RUS (190) | 6-1 7-6(4)
2nd round Julian Reister GER (89) | 3-6 7-6(5) 6-1
Quarters #3 Marin Cilic CRO (22) | 7-5 6-3
Semis Radek Stepanek CZE (36) | 6-3 4-0 Retired
Final #5 Florian Mayer GER (27) | 6-3 3-6 6-1
Average Opponent Rank 72.8

Djokovic cruised through his home tournament, playing only three matches, and playing just one top 50 opponent. Lopez did challenge him in the first set of the final, but other than that it was a dominant performance from the Serbian, still undefeated in 2011.

Juan Matin del Potro continues to build himself back towards the top ranking spots, and looked very good in winning at Estoril. He actually struggled somewhat in his first match against a lowly ranked home wildcard, but then went through the tournament without dropping a set, including a win against #4 Soderling and crushing Verdasco in the final.

Nikolay Davydenko, another player looking to rebuild his ranking, was the other winner on the week, taking the tournament in Munich. He didn't get any marquee wins along the way, but his last three matches against top 40 players were all solid wins to propel him to the title.

Challengers:
Leon: #3 Bobby Reynolds USA (106) d. Andre Begemann GER (272) | 6-3 6-3
Ostrava: Stephane Robert FRA (115) d. Adam Kellner HUN (269) | 6-1 6-3
Sarasota: James Blake USA (61) d. Alex Bogomolov Jr. USA (103) | 6-2 6-2

Futures:
Argentina F3: Andres Molteni ARG (213)
Brazil F11: Steven Diez CAN (525)
Great Britain F5: Enrico Burzi ITA (436)
India F5: Patrik Rosenholm SWE (n/a)
Italy F7: Matwe Middelkoop NED (349)
Kazakhstan F1: Denis Matsukevitch RUS (395)
Spain F13: Roberto Carballes Baena ESP (n/a)
Turkey F15: Arnau Brugues-Davi ESP (210)
USA F10: Daniel Garza MEX (462)
Venezuela F1: David Souto VEN (467)

Riser of the Week (top 100):
Nikolay Davydenko RUS (34), Up 13
Davydenko's solid week gives him a nice boost, away from the edge of the top 50, where he had been sitting for the last few weeks. His solid wins over Cilic and Mayer were the main driving force for his rise.

Riser of the Week (other):
Stephane Robert FRA (115), Up 30
Robert looks like the kind of player who is too good for challengers, but not quite good enough for the ATP level. He won on clay at Ostrava, getting some useful victories over Lukas Rosol (135), Benoit Paire (175) and Sergei Bubka (212).

Dropper of the Week (top 100):
Ernests Gulbis LAT (58), Down 24
Gulbis had a great clay season last year, but his form this season could see him take a big drop. He lost last year's Rome run from his ranking this week, which included a win over Roger Federer (3), before falling in the semifinal to Rafael Nadal (1). This week, he played at Belgrade, but lost first round, going out easily to Illya Marchenko (136).

Dropper of the Week (other):
Jose Acasuso ARG (117), Down 26
The Argentine has not done much this season, and sees his ranking fall after dropping a good result from last year, in which he won the Tunis challenger, beating Pablo Andujar (82), Marsel Ilhan (142) and Daniel Brands (138). This week, he didn't play, and losing those wins sends him out of the top 100.

1 (1). Rafael Nadal ESP - 838.0
Last week: None

2 (2). Novak Djokovic SRB - 829.7
Last week: Belgrade W

3 (3). Roger Federer SUI - 825.0
Last week: None

4 (4). Robin Soderling SWE - 797.1
Last week: Estoril QF (l. del Potro)

5 (5). Andy Murray GBR - 796.6
Last week: None

6 (6). David Ferrer ESP - 789.4
Last week: None

7 (10). Juan Martin del Potro ARG - 782.0
Last week: Estoril W

8 (8). David Nalbandian ARG - 777.3
Last week: None

9 (9). Jurgen Melzer AUT - 776.1
Last week: None

10 (7). Stanislas Wawrinka SUI - 775.8
Last week: Munich R32 (l. Brown)

11 (12). Tomas Berdych CZE - 774.4
Last week: None

12 (11). Gael Monfils FRA - 774.1
Last week: None

13 (13). Mardy Fish USA - 774.1
Last week: None

14 (15). Nicolas Almagro ESP - 771.7
Last week: None

15 (14). Andy Roddick USA - 770.9
Last week: None

16 (16). Richard Gasquet FRA - 766.2
Last week: None

17 (18). Viktor Troicki SRB - 760.0
Last week: Belgrade R16 (l. Granollers)

18 (17). Jo-Wilfried Tsonga FRA - 758.3
Last week: Estoril R16 (l. Cuevas)

19 (19). Gilles Simon FRA - 756.7
Last week: Estoril QF (l. Raonic)

20 (20). Mikhail Youzhny RUS - 756.6
Last week: Munich R16 (l. Petzschner)

21 (21). Lleyton Hewitt AUS - 753.4
Last week: None

22 (22). Marin Cilic CRO - 752.2
Last week: Munich QF (l. Davydenko)

23 (27). Alexandr Dolgopolov UKR - 747.7
Last week: None

24 (23). Fernando Verdasco ESP - 747.5
Last week: Estoril F (l. del Potro)

25 (26). Michael Llodra FRA - 746.3
Last week: None

In: Alexandr Dolgopolov, Michael Llodra
Out: Philipp Kohlschreiber, Tommy Robredo

April 25th Rankings - Juniors

2011-05-01T12:01:00.001-07:00

ATP U20 - The rankings for all players under 20 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Grigor Dimitrov BUL (19.9) - #64, -3
Last week: Barcelona R64

2 (2). Ryan Harrison USA (18.9) - #94, 0
Last week: None

3 (3). Bernard Tomic AUS (18.5) - #100, +3
Last week: None

4 (4). Filip Krajinovic SRB (19.1) - #204, +4
Last week: None

5 (5). Facundo Arguello ARG (18.7) - #257, +24
Last week: Argentina F2 FU W

6 (6). Pablo Carreno-Busta ESP (19.8) - #305, -9
Last week: Barcelona R64

7 (7). Di Wu CHN (19.6) - #313, -7
Last week: China F4 FU R16

8 (9). Javier Marti ESP (19.2) - #344, +14
Last week: Santos CH R16 (Q)

9 (8). Christian Lindell SWE (19.4) - #350, +4
Last week: Santos CH R32

10 (-). Yong-Kyu Lim KOR (19.8) - #385, +9
Last week: China F4 FU QF

ATP U18 - The rankings for all players under 18 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Jason Kubler AUS (17.9) - #495, 0
Last week: None

2 (2). Robert Rumler CZE (17.3) - #699, -1
Last week: None

3 (3). Juan Ignacio Londero ARG (17.7) - #762, -2
Last week: Argentina F2 FU R32

ITF Juniors - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Jiri Vesely CZE (17.7)
2 (2). Andres Artundeo Martinavarr ESP (17.6)
3 (3). Joris De Loore BEL (18.0)
4 (4). Roberto Carballes Baena ESP (18.0)
5 (5). Oliver Golding GBR (17.5)
6 (6). Dominic Thiem AUT (17.6)
7 (7). George Morgan GBR (18.2)
8 (8). Mate Delic CRO (17.9)
9 (9). Luke Saville AUS (17.2)
10 (10). Mate Pavic CRO (17.8)

ITF Juniors U17 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Halebian goes back to #1, as Quinzi falls to #3. Jankovic, Pavlasek and Masur all fall out, with Milojevic, Veger and Cai entering the top 10.

1 (2). Alexios Halebian USA (16.8) - #34, 0
2 (3). Thiago Moura Monteiro BRA (16.9) - #38, +2
3 (1). Gianluigi Quinzi ITA (15.2) - #40, -8
4 (4). Enzo Couacaud FRA (16.1) - #43, +3
5 (5). Jae Hwan Kim KOR (16.5) - #48, -1
6 (6). Laurent Lokoli FRA (16.5) - #50, +2
7 (-). Nikola Milojevic SRB (15.8) - #66, +6
8 (10). Kyle Edmund GBR (16.2) - #68, -2
9 (-). Filip Veger CRO (16.3) - #72, +13
10 (-). Zhao Cai CHN (16.8) - #73, +5

ITF Juniors U16 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Gianluigi Quinzi ITA (15.2) - #40, -8
2 (2). Nikola Milojevic SRB (15.8) - #66, +6
3 (5). Nick Kyrgios AUS (15.9) - #143, +12
4 (4). Guillermo Nunez CHI (15.7) - #147, +6
5 (3). Yoshihito Nishioka JPN (15.5) - #146, +10
6 (7). Wayne Montgomery RSA (15.8) - #166, +3
7 (6). Albert Alcaraz Ivorra ESP (15.9) - #175, -10
8 (8). Quentin Halys FRA (14.4) - #190, +2
9 (9). Blake Mott AUS (15.0) - #224, -2
10 (10). Chi-Shan Jao TPE (15.9) - #226, -1

April 25th Rankings - Women

2011-05-01T11:35:00.001-07:00

A wild week at the bottom of the top 10, with Sam Stosur going up 2 places to 7th, Shuai Peng surging 7 places to 9th and Petra Kvitova rising three spots to get to the edge of the top 10. Dropping out are Elena Dementieva, who falls to 12th, and Flavia Pennetta, now 13th.

Winners:

Fes
Alberta Brianti ITA (102)
1st round Laura Pous-Tio ESP (93) | 7-5 6-2
2nd round Ksenia Pervak RUS (80) | 7-5 6-2
Quarters Melanie Oudin USA (107) | 7-5 5-7 6-0
Semis Dinara Safina RUS (41) | Walkover
Final #7 Simona Halep ROU (62) | 6-4 6-3
Average Opponent Rank 76.6

Stuttgart
Julia Goerges GER (30)
1st round Michaella Krajicek NED (116) | 6-3 6-1
2nd round #4 Victoria Azarenka BLR (5) | 4-6 0-0 Retired
Quarters Sabine Lisicki GER (64) | 6-4 6-4
Semis #5 Samantha Stosur AUS (7) | 6-4 3-6 7-5
Final #1 Caroline Wozniacki DEN (2) | 7-6(3) 6-3
Average Opponent Rank 38.8

Brianti was a surprising winner from outside the top 100 in Fes, though given the weakness of the field its not a huge surprise. Her one top 50 match ended up in a walkover, as Safina didn't play, though she was effective in beating Halep in the final.

Georges got a huge win for her career at home in Stuttgart, notching up no fewer than three top ten wins; while she was fortunate that Azarenka retired while ahead in the escond round, she looked very solid in beating Stosur and Wozniacki on the weekend.

ITF events:

50K
Dothan: Melinda Czink HUN (n/a) d. #5 Stephanie Foretz Gacon FRA (145) | 6-2 6-3

25K
Civitavecchia: Maria-Teresa Torro-Flor ESP (168) d. Anna-Giulia Remondina ITA (232) | 6-3 6-4
Tessenderlo: #7 Anna Lena Groenefeld GER (191) d. Alison Van Uytvanck BEL (272) | 6-3 7-5

10K
Antalya: Marta Sirotkina RUS (270)
Caracas: Indire Akiki CRO (417)
Cordoba: Daniela Seguel CHI (558)
Hvar: Ema Burgic BIH (n/a)
Karshi: Ekaterina Yashina RUS (n/a)
Torrent: Garbine Muguruza Blanco ESP (n/a)

Riser of the Week (top 100):
Julia Goerges GER (30), Up 11
Goerges' three top 10 wins played a big role in lifting her up to #30. This week last year, she lost a Fed Cup match against Pauline Parmentier (159). The combination of that drop and this week's wins lifts her to a career high.

Riser of the Week (other):
Maria-Teresa Torro-Flor ESP (168), Up 40
The 19-year-old Spaniard won the ITF event in Italy, dropping just one set along the way. She had some solid wins along the way, taking out Masa Zec-Peskiric (200), Laura Thorpe (202), and Margalita Chakhnashvili (212).

Dropper of the Week (top 100):
Franecesca Schiavone ITA (15), Down 3
Schiavone lost her first round match in Munich against Agnieszka Radwanska (14). She also dropped a win against Lucie Safarova (37) from last year's Fed Cup, leading to her falling three places, away from the top 10.

Dropper of the Week (other):
Abigail Spears USA (221), Down 36
Spears didn't play this week, but dropped a solid showing form this time last year, when she made the semis at an ITF event in Dothan, besting Michaella Krajicek (116) and Jamie Hampton 81) along the way. She has still not won a match this season, and it is beginning to take a toll on her ranking.

1 (1). Kim Clijsters BEL - 841.1
Last week: None

2 (2). Caroline Wozniacki DEN - 816.1
Last week: Stuttgart F (l. Goerges)

3 (3). Vera Zvonareva RUS - 809.1
Last week: Stuttgart QF (l. Stosur)

4 (4). Venus Williams USA - 800.1
Last week: None

5 (5). Victoria Azarenka BLR - 788.0
Last week: Stuttgart R16 (l. Goerges)

6 (6). Maria Sharapova RUS - 786.9
Last week: None

7 (9). Samantha Stosur AUS - 779.5
Last week: Stuttgart SF (l. Goerges)

8 (7). Na Li CHN - 778.4
Last week: Stuttgart R16 (l. Lisicki)

9 (14). Shuai Peng CHN - 776.7
Last week: None

10 (13). Petra Kvitova CZE - 776.2
Last week: None

11 (11). Kaia Kanepi EST - 775.7
Last week: None

12 (8). Elena Dementieva RUS - 775.3
Last week: None

13 (10). Flavia Pennetta ITA - 775.3
Last week: None

14 (18). Agnieszka Radwanska POL - 773.9
Last week: Stuttgart SF (l. Wozniacki)

15 (12). Francesca Schiavone ITA - 773.4
Last week: Stuttgart R16 (l. Radwanska)

16 (15). Shahar Peer ISR - 772.5
Last week: None

17 (16). Andrea Petkovic GER - 772.2
Last week: Stuttgart QF (l. Wozniacki)

18 (17). Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS - 770.8
Last week: None

19 (19). Ana Ivanovic SRB - 769.7
Last week: None

20 (20). Jelena Jankovic SRB - 769.2
Last week: Stuttgart R16 (l. Petkovic)

21 (21). Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS - 768.9
Last week: Stuttgart R16 (l. Zvonareva)

22 (22). Yanina Wickmayer BEL - 762.4
Last week: None

23 (23). Marion Bartoli FRA - 759.9
Last week: Stuttgart R16 (l. Barrois)

24 (25). Nadia Petrova RUS - 756.7
Last week: None

25 (24). Dominika Cibulkova SVK - 755.5
Last week: Stuttgart R32 (l. Lisicki)

In: None
Out: None

April 25th Rankings

2011-05-01T10:14:00.000-07:00

Jurgen Melzer rises into thetop 10, after making the quarterfinals in Barcelona; he displaces Tomas Berdych, who drops to 12th, and Juan Martin del Potro, who goes down one spot to 10th.

Winners:

Barcelona
#1 Rafael Nadal ESP (1)
1st round Bye
2nd round Daniel Gimeno-Traver ESP (86) | 6-1 6-1
3rd round Santiago Giraldo COL (55) | 6-3 6-1
Quarters #7 Gael Monfils FRA (11) | 6-2 6-2
Semis Ivan Dodig CRO (59) | 6-3 6-2
Final #4 David Ferrer ESP (6) | 6-2 6-4
Average Opponent Rank 43.4

Another dominant win for Nadal, who faced absolutley no pressure in winning in Barcelona, only once getting pushed as far as 6-4. It looks like another season of clay superiority for Rafa, based on the first two evvents.

Challengers:
Napoli: Thomas Schoorel NED (83) d. #2 Filippo Volandri ITA (98) | 6-2 7-6(4)
Santos: #7 Joao Souza BRA (222) d. #5 Diego Junqueira ARG (159) | 6-4 6-2

Futures:
Argentina F1: Facundo Arguello ARG (257)
Brazil F10: Nicolas Santos BRA (666)
China F4: Kyu-Tae Im KOR (n/a)
France F7: Jonathan Eysseric FRA (301)
India F4: Vishnu Vardhan IND (390)
Italy F6: Daniel Koellerer AUT (219)
Turkey F14: Arnau Brugues-Davi ESP (216)

Riser of the Week (top 100):
Robin Haase NED (38), Up 7
Haase didn't do much this week, getting a win against Flavio Cipolla (160) before losing to Gael Monfils (11), but the Dutchman's rise came as a result of dropping a very poor challenger result from last year, where he lost to Noam Okun (361) in the first round.

Riser of the Week (other):
Joao Souza BRA (222), Up 42
Souza won the Santos challenger with some solid wins against some solid regulars of the South American swing, including Andres Molteni (218), Ricardo Mello (114) and Diego Junqueira (159).

Dropper of the Week (top 100):
Thiemo de Bakker NED (61), Down 14
de Bakker hasn't played since Indian Wells, and didn't defend his excellent result from last year's Barcelona, which saw him beat Alejandro Falla (129), Juan Carlos Ferrero (n/a) and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (17), before losing to Robin Soderling (4). Without those points, he drops a fair distance, out of the top 50.

Dropper of the Week (other):
Dominik Meffert GER (148), Down 37
The German veteran lost in the first round of qualifying for Barcelona, falling against Simon Greul (147). He also dropped a challenger win from last season, that included him beating Mello (114) and Junqueira (159).

1 (1). Rafael Nadal ESP - 839.2
Last week: Barcelona W

2 (2). Novak Djokovic SRB - 826.9
Last week: None

3 (3). Roger Federer SUI - 822.4
Last week: None

4 (4). Robin Soderling SWE - 796.8
Last week: Barcelona R32 (l. Dodig)

5 (5). Andy Murray GBR - 795.9
Last week: None

6 (6). David Ferrer ESP - 791.6
Last week: Barcelona F (l. Nadal)

7 (7). Stanislas Wawrinka SUI - 782.3
Last week: None

8 (8). David Nalbandian ARG - 777.1
Last week: None

9 (11). Jurgen Melzer AUT - 775.3
Last week: Barcelona QF (l. Ferrer)

10 (9). Juan Martin del Potro ARG - 774.2
Last week: None

11 (13). Gael Monfils FRA - 774.1
Last week: Barcelona QF (l. Nadal)

12 (10). Tomas Berdych CZE - 773.5
Last week: None

13 (12). Mardy Fish USA - 773.1
Last week: None

14 (14). Andy Roddick USA - 770.4
Last week: None

15 (15). Nicolas Almagro ESP - 770.1
Last week: Barcelona SF (l. Ferrer)

16 (16). Richard Gasquet FRA - 765.9
Last week: Barcelona R16 (l. Monfils)

17 (17). Jo-Wilfried Tsonga FRA - 763.1
Last week: None

18 (18). Viktor Troicki SRB - 760.8
Last week: None

19 (19). Gilles Simon FRA - 758.1
Last week: None

20 (20). Mikhail Youzhny RUS - 758.1
Last week: None

21 (23). Lleyton Hewitt AUS - 753.0
Last week: None

22 (22). Marin Cilic CRO - 751.0
Last week: None

23 (21). Fernando Verdasco ESP - 748.4
Last week: None

24 (24). Philipp Kohlschreiber GER - 747.0
Last week: None

25 (27). Tommy Robredo ESP - 746.5
Last week: None

In: Tommy Robredo
Out: Michael Llodra

April 18th Rankings - Juniors

2011-04-29T23:38:00.001-07:00

ATP U20 - The rankings for all players under 20 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Grigelis and Domijan dropped out, replaced by Marti and Sock.

1 (1). Grigor Dimitrov BUL (19.9) - #61, +1
Last week: None

2 (2). Ryan Harrison USA (18.9) - #94, -2
Last week: Bibe

3 (3). Bernard Tomic AUS (18.5) - #103, +6
Last week: Monte Carlo QR2

4 (4). Filip Krajinovic SRB (19.1) - #208, -5
Last week: None

5 (5). Facundo Arguello ARG (18.7) - #281, +5
Last week: None

6 (7). Pablo Carreno-Busta ESP (19.7) - #296, +12
Last week: Rome CH R32

7 (6). Di Wu CHN (19.6) - #306, -3
Last week: China F3 FU QF

8 (8). Christian Lindell SWE (19.4) - #354, +3
Last week: Blumenau CH QR2

9 (9). Javier Marti ESP (19.2) - #358, +1
Last week: Blumenau CH QF

10 (10). Jack Sock USA (18.5) - #385, +2
Last week: None

ATP U18 - The rankings for all players under 18 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Jason Kubler AUS (17.9) - #495, +4
Last week: None

2 (2). Robert Rumler CZE (17.3) - #698, 0
Last week: None

3 (3). Juan Ignacio Londero ARG (17.6) - #760, -1
Last week: Argentina F1 FU R32

ITF Juniors - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Jiri Vesely CZE (17.7)
2 (2). Andres Artundeo Martinavarr ESP (17.5)
3 (3). Joris De Loore BEL (17.9)
4 (4). Roberto Carballes Baena ESP (18.0)
5 (5). Oliver Golding GBR (17.5)
6 (6). Dominic Thiem AUT (17.6)
7 (7). George Morgan GBR (18.1)
8 (8). Mate Delic CRO (17.9)
9 (9). Luke Saville AUS (17.2)
10 (10). Mate Pavic CRO (17.7)

ITF Juniors U17 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Quinzi moves up to #1, ahead of the dropping Halebian.

1 (2). Gianluigi Quinzi ITA (15.2) - #32, +1
2 (1). Alexios Halebian USA (16.8) - #34, -8
3 (3). Thiago Moura Monteiro BRA (16.8) - #40, 0
4 (6). Enzo Couacaud FRA (16.1) - #46, +8
5 (4). Jae Hwan Kim KOR (16.5) - #47, +1
6 (5). Laurent Lokoli FRA (16.4) - #522, -1
7 (8). Adam Pavlasek CZE (16.5) - #58, +4
8 (9). Miki Jankovic SRB (16.5) - #62, +1
9 (10). Daniel Masur GER (16.4) - #63, +2
10 (7). Kyle Edmund GBR (16.2) - #66, -7

ITF Juniors U16 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Trongcharoenchaikul, Napolitano and Di Feo age out, replaced by Halys, Mott and Joa.

1 (1). Gianluigi Quinzi ITA (15.1) - #32, +1
2 (2). Nikola Milojevic SRB (15.8) - #72, +5
3 (5). Yoshihito Nishioka JPN (15.5) - #146, +10
4 (4). Guillermo Nunez CHI (15.7) - #153, 0
5 (7). Nick Kyrgios AUS (15.9) - #155, +13
6 (8). Albert Alcaraz Ivorra ESP (15.8) - #165, +11
7 (6). Wayne Montgomery RSA (15.7) - #169, -2
8 (-). Quentin Halys FRA (14.4) - #190, +10
9 (-). Blake Mott AUS (14.9) - #222, +27
10 (-). Chi-Shan Jao TPE (15.8) - #225, +4

April 18th Rankings - Women

2011-04-29T22:33:00.000-07:00

Some changes in the bottom of the top 10, as Sam Stosur drops two places to 9th, with Na Li and Elena Dementieva moving past her. Francesca Schiavone dopped out of the top 10, with her fellow Italian Flavia Pennetta moving up to take her place.

No WTA tournaments in this Fed Cup week, as Russia cruised to a semifinal win, and the Czechs needed the final rubber to beat out Belgium.

ITF events:

100K
Johannesburg: Valeria Savinykh RUS (195) d. Petra Cetkovska CZE (120) | 6-1 6-3

25K
Casablanca: Galina Voskoboeva KAZ (156) d. Mervana Jugic-Salkic BIH (n/a) | 6-7(4) 6-2 6-3
Incheon: #2 So-Jung Kim KOR (284) d. #1 Jin-A Lee KOR (236) | 2-6 6-3 6-1
Osprey: Claire de Gubernatis FRA (262) d. Caroline Garcia FRA (153) | 6-4 6-4

10K
Antalya: Daria Gavrilova RUS (194)
Bol: Evelyn Mayr ITA (371)
Caracas: Adriana Perez VEN (446)
Cordoba: Andrea Benitez ARG (469)
Pomezia: Anna-Giulia Remondina ITA (248)

Riser of the Week (top 100):
Petra Kvitova CZE (13), Up 3
Kvitova anchored her sides win in the Fed Cup, as she won both her singles matches, taking out Yanina Wickmayer (22) and Kirsten Flipkens (71). This gave her a nice boost back into the top 15,and it wouldn't be too surprising to see her climb into the top 10 soon.

Riser of the Week (other):
Valeria Savinykh RUS (195), Up 53
The 20-year-old Russian won a strong ITF title in Joburg this week, the biggest result of her career to date. En route to the win, she defeated Eva Birnerova (154), Anne Keothavong (133) and Petra Cetkovska (120), lifting her into the top 200.

Dropper of the Week (top 100):
Daniela Hantuchova SVK (37), Down 7
Hantuchova made a good semifinal run at Charleston this week last year, but takes a hard drop after a really poor showing in a home Fed Cup tie, as she lost both her matches, against Ana Ivanovic (19) and Jelena Jankovic (20).

Dropper of the Week (other):
Catalina Castano COL (271), Down 50
Castano suffered a surprising loss in the first round of the Casablanca ITF event, losing to a local player Lina Bennani (595) very decisively, sending her well away from the top 200.

1 (1). Kim Clijsters BEL - 842.5
Last week: None

2 (2). Caroline Wozniacki DEN - 819.0
Last week: None

3 (3). Vera Zvonareva RUS - 811.9
Last week: Fed Cup v. ITA (2-0)

4 (4). Venus Williams USA - 802.1
Last week: None

5 (5). Victoria Azarenka BLR - 791.4
Last week: None

6 (6). Maria Sharapova RUS - 787.2
Last week: None

7 (8). Na Li CHN - 781.9
Last week: None

8 (9). Elena Dementieva RUS - 779.3
Last week: None

9 (7). Samantha Stosur AUS - 779.3
Last week: None

10 (11). Flavia Pennetta ITA - 778.7
Last week: None

11 (12). Kaia Kanepi EST - 777.6
Last week: None

12 (10). Francesca Schiavone ITA - 777.1
Last week: None

13 (16). Petra Kvitova CZE - 776.2
Last week: Fed Cup v. BEL (2-0)

14 (13). Shuai Peng CHN - 775.5
Last week: None

15 (14). Shahar Peer ISR - 774.0
Last week: None

16 (19). Andrea Petkovic GER - 773.6
Last week: Fed Cup v. USA (2-0)

17 (18). Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS - 772.6
Last week: Fed Cyo v, ITA (1-0)

18 (17). Agnieszka Radwanska POL - 771.8
Last week: None

19 (15). Ana Ivanovic SRB - 771.4
Last week: Fed Cup v. SVK (1-1)

20 (20). Jelena Jankovic SRB - 770.6
Last week: Fed Cup v. SVK (1-0)

21 (21). Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS - 770.1
Last week: Fed Cup v. ITA (1-0)

22 (22). Yanina Wickmayer BEL - 764.8
Last week: Fed Cup v. CZE (1-1)

23 (23). Marion Bartoli FRA - 762.4
Last week: None

24 (25). Dominika Cibulkova SVK - 759.1
Last week: Fed Cup v. SRB (2-0)

25 (-). Nadia Petrova RUS - 758.0
Last week: None

In: None
Out: None

April 18th Rankings

2011-04-29T21:23:00.001-07:00

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
Out: None

April 11th Rankings - Juniors

2011-04-29T20:04:00.000-07:00

ATP U20 - The rankings for all players under 20 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Grigelis and Domijan dropped out, replaced by Marti and Sock.

1 (1). Grigor Dimitrov BUL (19.9) - #62, 0
Last week: Houston R16

2 (2). Ryan Harrison USA (18.9) - #92, 0
Last week: Houston R32

3 (3). Bernard Tomic AUS (18.4) - #109, +10
Last week: None

4 (4). Filip Krajinovic SRB (19.1) - #203, -1
Last week: None

5 (6). Facundo Arguello ARG (18.7) - #286, -13
Last week: Recife CH R32

6 (5). Di Wu CHN (19.5) - #303, -32
Last week: None

7 (7). Pablo Carreno-Busta ESP (19.7) - #308, -11
Last week: Casablanca Q R2

8 (9). Christian Lindell SWE (19.4) - #357, +17
Last week: Recife CH R16

9 (-). Javier Marti ESP (19.2) - #359, +34
Last week: Pereira CH SF

10 (-). Jack Sock USA (18.5) - #387, +2
Last week: None

ATP U18 - The rankings for all players under 18 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Jeong ages out, leaving just three players.

1 (1). Jason Kubler AUS (17.9) - #499, -2
Last week: None

2 (2). Robert Rumler CZE (17.3) - #698, 0
Last week: Croatia F5 FU Q R3

3 (3). Juan Ignacio Londero ARG (17.6) - #759, -5
Last week: Argentina F1 FU R32

ITF Juniors - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Pavic replaces Lupescu in the top 10.

1 (1). Jiri Vesely CZE (17.7)
2 (3). Andres Artundeo Martinavarr ESP (17.5)
3 (4). Joris De Loore BEL (17.9)
4 (2). Roberto Carballes Baena ESP (18.0)
5 (5). Oliver Golding GBR (17.5)
6 (6). Dominic Thiem AUT (17.5)
7 (8). George Morgan GBR (18.1)
8 (7). Mate Delic CRO (17.9)
9 (9). Luke Saville AUS (17.1)
10 (-). Mate Pavic CRO (17.7)

ITF Juniors U17 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Lokoli makes a big rise, replacing the dropping Cagnina.

1 (1). Alexios Halebian USA (16.8) - #26, -5
2 (2). Gianluigi Quinzi ITA (15.1) - #33, -4
3 (3). Thiago Moura Monteiro BRA (16.8) - #40, 0
4 (5). Jae Hwan Kim KOR (16.5) - #48, 0
5 (-). Laurent Lokoli FRA (16.4) - #51, +28
6 (6). Enzo Couacaud FRA (16.0) - #54, -2
7 (8). Kyle Edmund GBR (16.2) - #59, +4
8 (9). Adam Pavlasek CZE (16.4) - #62, +2
9 (4). Miki Jankovic SRB (16.5) - #63, -18
10 (10). Daniel Masur GER (16.4) - #65, +1

ITF Juniors U16 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Gianluigi Quinzi ITA (15.1) - #33, -4
2 (2). Nikola Milojevic SRB (15.7) - #77, +5
3 (3). Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul THA (15.9) - #136, +3
4 (4). Guillermo Nunez CHI (15.7) - #153, +1
5 (7). Yoshihito Nishioka JPN (15.5) - #156, +15
6 (9). Wayne Montgomery RSA (15.7) - #167, +33
7 (6). Nick Kyrgios AUS (15.9) - #168, +1
8 (5). Albert Alcaraz Ivorra ESP (15.8) - #176, -15
9 (8). Stefano Napolitano ITA (15.9) - #176, +16
10 (10). Hugo Di Feo CAN (15.9) - #202, 0

April 11th Rankings - Women

2011-04-29T19:04:00.000-07:00

Another tournament win saw Victoria Azarenka continue her climb, jump up two spots to 5th, while Sam Stosur exchanged with her, dropping to 7th. Two other flips at the bottom of the top 10 saw Li leapfrog Dementieva into 8th and Schiavone passing her countrywoman Pennetta into 10th.

Winners:

Charleston
#1 Caroline Wozniacki DEN (2)
1st round Bye
2nd round Irina Falconi USA (99) | 6-1 6-1
3rd round #15 Barbora Zahlavova Strycova CZE (51) | 7-6(6) 7-6(9)
Quarters #6 Yanina Wickmayer BEL (22) | 4-6 6-4 6-4
Semis #3 Jelena Jankovic SRB (20) | 6-4 6-4
Final Elena Vesnina RUS (43) | 6-2 6-3
Average Opponent Rank 47.0

Marbella
#1 Victoria Azarenka BLR (5)
1st round Arantxa Parra-Santonja ESP (76) | 6-2 6-3
2nd round Laura Pous-Tio ESP (85) | 6-3 6-2
Quarters Dinara Safina RUS (46) | 5-1 Retired
Semis #8 Sara Errani ITA (39) | 6-2 6-1
Final Irina-Camelia Begu ROU (146) | 6-3 6-2
Average Opponent Rank 78.4

Wozniacki played a tough match against Wickmayer in the quarters, but cruised through her last two matches against a pretty weak field.

Azarenka absolutely crushed her opposition in Marbella, winning all the sets she played, with the closest 6-3. It was a very weak collection of opponents, but still an incredbily impressive show.

ITF events:

25K
Bundaberg: Casey Dellacqua AUS (n/a) d. #4 Olivia Rogowska AUS (311) | 6-2 6-3
Jackson: Marina Erakovic NZL (139) d. #3 Ajla Tomljanovic CRO (122) | 6-1 6-2

10K
Almaty: Nadezda Gorbachkova RUS (n/a)
Antalya: Quirine Lemoine NED (450)
Caracas: Adriana Perez VEN (490)
Cordoba: Tatiana Bua ARG (488)
Lucknow: Sharmada Balu IND (n/a)
Pomezia: Margalita Chakhnashvili GEO (223)
Sibenik: Eugenie Bouchard CAN (n/a)

Riser of the Week (top 100):
Sania Mirza IND (82), Up 15
Mirza had a solid run at Charleston, winning two matches to qualify for the main draw, then getting three wins en route to the quarterfinals, including taking out
Sabine Lisicki (90) and Vania King (68), before losing to Shuai Peng (13)

Riser of the Week (other):
Marina Erakovic NZL (139), Up 30
Might as well just name this one the Marina Erakovic award, as she wins it again. The Kiwi won her third straight tournament at Jackson, beating Yung-Jun Chan (112) and Ajla Tomljanovic (122) to win the title. She's climbed nearly 100 places in the last month, an incredible rise.

Dropper of the Week (top 100):
Carla Suarez Navarro ESP (98), Down 28
Suarez Navarro didn't play this week, and lost a big chunk of her ranking after dropping a final from last year's Marbella. That event saw her beat Roberta Vinci (38) and Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez (27), among others, and without those wins she comes perilously close to falling out of the top 100.

Dropper of the Week (other):
Beatriz Garcia-Vidagany ESP (160), Down 36
The 22-year-old Spaniard made a big splash at Marbella last year, qualifying for the main draw and winning a big match against current world #1 Kim Clijsters. This year, she lost in the first round of qualies, continuing a poor season for her.

1 (1). Kim Clijsters BEL - 841.6
Last week: None

2 (2). Caroline Wozniacki DEN - 817.7
Last week: Charleston W

3 (3). Vera Zvonareva RUS - 810.7
Last week: Charleston SF (l. Azarenka)

4 (4). Venus Williams USA - 802.1
Last week: None

5 (7). Victoria Azarenka BLR - 787.8
Last week: Marbella W

6 (6). Maria Sharapova RUS - 786.4
Last week: None

7 (5). Samantha Stosur AUS - 784.2
Last week: Charleston R16 (l. Vesnina)

8 (9). Na Li CHN - 781.6
Last week: None

9 (8). Elena Dementieva RUS - 780.1
Last week: None

10 (11). Francesca Schiavone ITA - 779.2
Last week: None

11 (10). Flavia Pennetta ITA - 778.0
Last week: None

12 (12). Kaia Kanepi EST - 777.0
Last week: None

13 (15). Shuai Peng CHN - 776.3
Last week: Charleston SF (l. Vesnina)

14 (13). Shahar Peer ISR - 773.5
Last week: Charleston R16 (l. Goerges)

15 (17). Ana Ivanovic SRB - 771.8
Last week: None

16 (18). Petra Kvitova CZE - 771.7
Last week: None

17 (16). Agnieszka Radwanska POL - 771.7
Last week: None

18 (14). Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS - 771.3
Last week: Marbella SF (l. Begu)

19 (19). Andrea Petkovic GER - 770.5
Last week: None

20 (21). Jelena Jankovic SRB - 768.8
Last week: Charleston SF (l. Wozniacki)

21 (20). Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS - 768.7
Last week: None

22 (22). Yanina Wickmayer BEL - 765.0
Last week: Charleston QF (l. Wozniacki)

23 (23). Marion Bartoli FRA - 760.7
Last week: Charleston R32 (l. Lisicki)

24 (24). Nadia Petrova RUS - 758.9
Last week: Charleston R16 (l. Peng)

25 (25). Dominika Cibulkova SVK - 755.6
Last week: None

In: None
Out: None

April 11th Rankings

2011-04-29T18:58:00.000-07:00

No changes in the top 10, with the top players not in action as the clay season begins.

Winners:

Casablanca
Pablo Andujar ESP (85)
1st round Florent Serra FRA (107) | 6-1 3-6 6-2
2nd round #6 Jeremy Chardy FRA (54) | 7-6(6) 6-1
Quarters Pere Riba ESP (98) | 6-2 6-2
Semis #1 Albert Montanes ESP (30) | 6-4 6-4
Final #5 Potito Starace ITA (42) | 6-1 6-2
Average Opponent Rank 66.2

Houston
Ryan Sweeting USA (65)
1st round Tim Smyczek USA (133) | 6-2 6-2
2nd round #2 Sam Querrey USA (33) | 3-6 7-6(5) 6-3
Quarters Teymuraz Gabashvili RUS (93) | 3-6 6-3 6-1
Semis Ivo Karlovic CRO (49) | 7-6(3) 6-3
Final #6 Kei Nishikori JPN (32) | 6-4 7-6(3)
Average Opponent Rank 68.0

Andujar was a surprising winner, but Casablanca wasn't a particularily strong field, with no really strong players. The 25-year-old Spaniard dropped a set in his opening match, but then won all his remaining matches in straights, including impressive victories over Chardy and Montanes.

Sweeting has had a strong start to the season, and continued that with his first ATP title on the clay at Houston. He didn't need a top 30 win to take the title, but did well to beat Querrey in round two and Nishikori in the final.

Challengers:
Monza: #7 Julian Reister GER (111) d. Alessio di Mauro ITA (114)
Pereira: #5 Paolo Lorenzi ITA (174) d. #7 Rogerio Dutra Da Silva BRA (166)
Recife: #2 Tatsuma Ito JPN d. Tiago Fernandes BRA (498) Walkover

Futures:
Australia F4: James Lemke AUS (311)
Chile F2: Guillaume Rufin FRA (202)
Croatia F5: Marc Sieber GER (416)
Italy F3: Daniele Giorgini ITA (258)
Spain F11: Morgan Phillips GBR (470)
Thailand F2: Danai Udomchoke THA (213)
Turkey F12: Radu Albot MDA (455)
USA F9: Arnau Brugues-Davi ESP (222)

Riser of the Week (top 100):
Ryan Sweeting USA (65), Up 14
No surprise that the Houston champ gets a big boost; he had a solid run at the tournament last year, qualifying and winning a match, but his maiden ATP title lifts him to the edge of the top 60.

Riser of the Week (other):
Arnau Brugues-Davi ESP (222), Up 42
The 26-year-old Spanish journeyman, who plays mostly in the US, has been on fire of late, winning back-to-back futures events, including won this week that saw him beat Chris Guccione (171) and Alex Bogdanovic (220) to take the win.

Dropper of the Week (top 100):
Victor Hanescu ROU (77), Down 12
The Romanian had the relatively rare occurance of taking a major drop after making the semifinals of an ATP event. Last year, he got some strong results in Morocco, beating Jarkko Nieminen (55) and Richard Gasquet (18), and finally losing to Stanislas Wawrinka (7). This year, his best win came over Daniel Gimeno-Traver (88), and he lost to Potito Starace (42).

Dropper of the Week (other):
Joao Souza BRA (259), Down 43
Souza won the Bogota challenger last year, getting two nice wins over Colombian players in Santiago Giraldo (56) and Alejandro Falla (126). This week, he played in Colombia as well, at Pereira, but lost in the second round to Juan Sebastian Cabal (269).

1 (1). Rafael Nadal ESP - 834.9
Last week: None

2 (2). Novak Djokovic SRB - 823.9
Last week: None

3 (3). Roger Federer SUI - 821.3
Last week: None

4 (4). Robin Soderling SWE - 796.7
Last week: None

5 (5). Andy Murray GBR - 790.7
Last week: None

6 (6). David Ferrer ESP - 786.4
Last week: None

7 (7). Stanislas Wawrinka SUI - 780.7
Last week: None

8 (8). David Nalbandian ARG - 777.7
Last week: None

9 (9). Tomas Berdych CZE - 773.8
Last week: None

10 (10). Gael Monfils FRA - 773.2
Last week: None

11 (12). Juan Martin del Potro ARG - 772.7
Last week: None

12 (11). Mardy Fish USA - 771.1
Last week: Houston QF (l. Nishikori)

13 (13). Andy Roddick USA - 768.9
Last week: None

14 (14). Jurgen Melzer AUT - 767.3
Last week: None

15 (15). Nicolas Almagro ESP - 765.2
Last week: None

16 (16). Jo-Wilfried Tsonga FRA - 763.0
Last week: None

17 (17). Fernando Verdasco ESP - 762.8
Last week: None

18 (18). Richard Gasquet FRA - 761.3
Last week: None

19 (19). Mikhail Youzhny RUS - 756.9
Last week: None

20 (20). Viktor Troicki SRB - 756.7
Last week: None

21 (21). Gilles Simon FRA - 755.3
Last week: Casablanca QF (l. Starace)

22 (22). Philipp Kohlschreiber GER - 749.4
Last week: None

23 (24). Lleyton Hewitt AUS - 748.2
Last week: None

24 (23). Marin Cilic CRO - 747.7
Last week: None

25 (25). Michael Llodra FRA - 745.4
Last week: None

In: None
Out: None

April 4th Rankings - Juniors

2011-04-16T21:36:00.001-07:00

ATP U20 - The rankings for all players under 20 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Yang ages out and Marti drops out, with with Christian Lindell and Alexander Domijan entering the top 10.

1 (1). Grigor Dimitrov BUL (19.9) - #62, -2
Last week: Miami R128 (Q)

2 (2). Ryan Harrison USA (18.9) - #92, -1
Last week: Miami R128

3 (3). Bernard Tomic AUS (18.4) - #119, -4
Last week: Miami R128

4 (4). Filip Krajinovic SRB (19.1) - #202, +1
Last week: None

5 (5). Di Wu CHN (19.5) - #271, +11
Last week: Pingguo CH R16

6 (6). Facundo Arguello ARG (18.6) - #273, +11
Last week: None

7 (7). Pablo Carreno-Busta ESP (19.7) - #297, -11
Last week: Caltanissetta CH R16

8 (8). Laurynas Grigelis LTU (19.6) - #359, -25
Last week: Switzerland F2 R32, Switzerland F3 QF

9 (-). Christian Lindell SWE (19.3) - #374, +9
Last week: Marrakech CH R32 (Q)

10 (-). Alexander Domijan USA (19.6) - #383, +26
Last week: Miami Q R1

ATP U18 - The rankings for all players under 18 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Jason Kubler AUS (17.8) - #497, -17
Last week: Spain F9 FU R32

2 (2). Suk-Young Jeong KOR (17.9) - #637, -8
Last week: None

3 (3). Robert Rumler CZE (17.3) - #698, -9
Last week: Croatia F4 FU R32

4 (4). Juan Ignacio Londero ARG (17.6) - #754, 0
Last week: None

ITF Juniors - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Jiri Vesely CZE (17.6)
2 (3). Roberto Carballes Baena ESP (18.0)
2 (2). Andres Artundeo Martinavarr ESP (17.5)
4 (4). Joris De Loore BEL (17.9)
5 (5). Oliver Golding GBR (17.5)
6 (7). Dominic Thiem AUT (17.5)
7 (6). Mate Delic CRO (17.9)
8 (8). George Morgan GBR (18.1)
9 (10). Luke Saville AUS (17.1)
10 (9). Jannick Lupescu NED (17.7)

ITF Juniors U17 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Alexios Halebian USA (16.8) - #21, 0
2 (2). Gianluigi Quinzi ITA (15.1) - #29, -4
3 (4). Thiago Moura Monteiro BRA (16.8) - #40, +5
4 (3). Miki Jankovic SRB (16.5) - #45, -3
5 (5). Jae Hwan Kim KOR (16.5) - #48, -2
6 (7). Enzo Couacaud FRA (16.0) - #52, +2
7 (6). Julien Cagnina BEL (16.9) - #59, -6
8 (10). Kyle Edmund GBR (16.2) - #63, +14
9 (9). Adam Pavlasek CZE (16.4) - #64, +8
10 (8). Daniel Masur GER (16.4) - #66, +4

ITF Juniors U16 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Chile's Guillermo Nunez enters the top 10, replacing Jao.

1 (1). Gianluigi Quinzi ITA (15.1) - #29, -4
2 (2). Nikola Milojevic SRB (15.7) - #82, +16
3 (3). Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul THA (15.9) - #139, +5
4 (-). Guillermo Nunez CHI (15.7) - #154, n/a
5 (4). Albert Alcaraz Ivorra ESP (15.8) - #161, +3
6 (6). Nick Kyrgios AUS (15.9) - #169, +21
7 (5). Yoshihito Nishioka JPN (15.5) - #171, +4
8 (7). Stefano Napolitano ITA (15.9) - #176, +16
9 (9). Wayne Montgomery RSA (15.7) - #200, +2
10 (8). Hugo Di Feo CAN (15.9) - #202, -1

April 4th Rankings - Women

2011-04-16T20:27:00.000-07:00

Justine Henin dropped out of the rankings, moving most of the top ten up a spot. The biggest shift, though, came from Victoria Azarenka, as the Miami winner moved up a staggering seven places, getting to 7th from 14th. Elena Dementieva also moved up two spots, while Na Li and Flavia Pennetta dropped due to both taking first round losses.

Winners:

Miami
#8 Victoria Azarenka BLR (7)
1st round Bye
2nd round Lucie Hradecka CZE (55) | 7-5 4-6 6-0
3rd round #25 Dominika Cibulkova SVK (25) | 3-6 6-3 6-4
4th round #17 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS (20) | 3-6 6-1 6-4
Quarters #2 Kim Clijsters BEL (1) | 6-3 6-3
Semis #3 Vera Zvonareva RUS (3) | 6-0 6-3
Final #16 Maria Sharapova RUS (6) | 6-1 6-4
Average Opponent Rank 22.0

Azarenka didn't look great in her first three matches, but dominated the later rounds, crushing three top 10 opponents, including #1 and #3 in one of the best performances of the season.

ITF events:

50K
Wenshan: #8 Iryna Bremond FRA (154) d. Ani Mijacika CRO (307) | 7-5 3-6 7-5
Monzon: #6 Petra Cetkovska CZE (138) d. Kirsten Flipkens BEL (78) | 5-7 6-4 6-2

25K
Bath: #8 Stefanie Voegele SUI (162) d. Marta Domachowska POL (150) | 6-7(3) 7-5 6-2
Kunming: #6 Iryna Bremond FRA (154) d. #3 Zarina Diyas KAZ (135) | 1-6 6-2 6-3
Moscow: Lyudmyla Kichenok UKR (312) d. Daria Gavrilova RUS (n/a) | 6-2 6-0
Namangan: #4 Jasmina Tinjic CRO (231) d. #1 Ekaterina Bychkova RUS (262) | 7-6(2) 2-6 7-6(5)
Buenos Aires: #1 Patricia Mayr-Achleitner AUT (141) d. Florencia Molinero ARG (194) | 0-6 6-2 6-2
Ipswich: #2 Sally Peers AUS (221) d. #1 Lesia Tsurenko UKR (168) | 5-7 7-5 6-0
Pelham: Marina Erakovic NZL (169) d. #3 Renata Voracova CZE (114) | 6-4 2-6 6-1

10K
Antalya: Reka-Luca Jani HUN (266)
Gonesse: Anne Schaefer GER (305)
Madrid: Estrella Cabeza-Candela ESP (225)
Poza Rica: Maria-Fernanda Alvarez-Teran BOL (366)
Rancagua: Aleksandrina Naydenova BUL (n/a)
Antalya: Ekaterine Gorgodze GEO (380)
Astana: Ekaterina Yashina RUS (n/a)
New Delhi: Celine Cattaneo FRA (n/a)
Ribeirao Preto: Irina Khromacheva RUS (n/a)

Riser of the Week (top 100):
Victoria Azarenka BLR (7), Up 7
Usually I stay away from the top 10 with these picks, but Azarenka's 7 spot rise, including beating three top 10 and two top 5 players, is undeniable. This was a huge result for her.

Riser of the Week (other):
Marina Erakovic NZL (169), Up 44
Erakovic claims this title for the second straight week after winning a challenger in Alabama. She picked up a good win in the final over Renata Voracova (114), and also beat Madison Brengle (173) and Caroline Garcia (157) in winning the title.

Dropper of the Week (top 100):
Tsevtana Pironkova BUL (65), Down 11
Pironokova qualified and won a round in Miami last year, but went backwards this year, losing to Lourdes Dominguez-Lino (60) in the first round, sending her down several spots.

Dropper of the Week (other):
Martina Caregaro ITA (310), Down 60
The 18-year-old Italian had a great week on home clay at Pomezia last year, winning an ITf tournament, beating Greta Arn (56), among others, to win the title. She hasn't done much this season, though, and lost her only match of the two weeks in straights sets to Daria Kuchmina (364).

1 (1). Kim Clijsters BEL - 837.5
Last week: Miami QF (l. Azarenka)

2 (2). Caroline Wozniacki DEN - 188.3
Last week: Mimai R16 (l. Petkovic)'

3 (4). Vera Zvonareva RUS - 810.7
Last week: Miami SF (l. Azarenka)

4 (5). Venus Williams USA - 803.2
Last week: None

5 (6). Samantha Stosur AUS - 787.0
Last week: Mimai R16 (l. Sharapova)

6 (7). Maria Sharapova RUS - 786.8
Last week: Miami F (l. Azarenka)

7 (14). Victoria Azarenka BLR - 784.4
Last week: Miami W

8 (10). Elena Dementieva RUS - 782.0
Last week: None

9 (8). Na Li CHN - 781.8
Last week: Miami R64 (l. Larsson)

10 (9). Flavia Pennetta ITA - 781.5
Last week: Miami R64 (l. Benesova)

11 (11). Francesca Schiavone ITA - 780.5
Last week: Miami R16 (l. Radwanska)

12 (13). Kaia Kanepi EST - 778.0
Last week: Miami R64 (l. Razzano)

13 (12). Shahar Peer ISR - 776.6
Last week: Miami R64 (l. Medina Garrigues)

14 (15). Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS - 774.1
Last week: Miami R32 (l. Peng)

15 (18). Shuai Peng CHN - 773.9
Last week: Miami R16 (l. Dulgheru)

16 (17). Agnieszka Radwanska POL - 772.4
Last week: Miami QF (l. Zvonareva)

17 (20). Ana Ivanovic SRB - 772.4
Last week: Miami R16 (l. Clijsters)

18 (16). Petra Kvitova CZE - 772.2
Last week: Miami R32 (l. Pavlyuchenkova)

19 (21). Andrea Petkovic GER - 771.8
Last week: Miami SF (l. Sharapova)

20 (19). Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS - 770.9
Last week: Miami R16 (l. Azarenka)

21 (22). Jelena Jankovic SRB - 769.2
Last week: Miami QF (l. Petkovic)

22 (23). Yanina Wickmayer BEL - 765.5
Last week: Miami R64 (l. Vesnina)

23 (24). Marion Bartoli FRA - 763.0
Last week: Miami R16 (l. Zvonareva)

24 (25). Nadia Petrova RUS - 760.8
Last week: Miami R32 (l. Lisicki)

25 (-). Dominika Cibulkova SVK - 755.5
Last week: Miami R32 (l. Azarenka)

In: Justine Henin
Out: Dominika Cibulkova

April 4th Rankings

2011-04-15T20:33:00.000-07:00

As expected, after continuing his spectacular run to start the year, Novak Djokovic moves up to #2, ahead of Roger Federer. Andy Roddick, winner last year, fell in the second round, and dropped all the way tp 13th, allowing Tomas Berydch up to 9th and Gael Monfils back into the top 10. Juan Martin del Potro also returned to the rankings, and while he isn't in the top 10, he could move up from 12th soon.

Winners:
Miami
#2 Novak Djokovic SRB (2)
1st round Bye
2nd round Denis Istomin UZB (57) | 6-0 6-1
3rd round James Blake USA (81) | 6-2 6-0
3rd round #16 Viktor Troicki SRB (20) | 6-3 6-2
Quarters Kevin Anderson RSA (44) | 6-4 6-2
Semis #14 Mardy Fish USA (11) | 6-3 6-1
Final #1 Rafael Nadal ESP (1) | 4-6 6-3 7-6(4)
Average Opponent Rank 35.7

Yet another tournament win for Novak Djokovic, who was dominant up until his meeting with Nadal, which was a close match. He was fortunate that he played a fairly weak slate of opponents to make the final, but it's unlikely that a tougher road would have given him much trouble, given his form.

Challengers:
Bath: #3 Dmitry Tursunov RUS (63) d. #6 Andreas Beck GER (131)
Caltanissetta: #3 Andreas Haider-Maurer AUT (120) d. Matteo Viola ITA (197)
Marrakech: #1 Rui Machado POR (125) d. Maxime Teixeira FRA (183)
Pingguo: #1 Go Soeda JPN (111) d. #5 Matthias Bachinger GER (129)
Barletta: Aljaz Bedene SLO (141) d. #3 Filippo Volandri ITA (96)
Barranquilla: Facundo Bagnis ARG (238) d. #8 Diego Junqueira ARG (162)
Saint Brieuc: Maxime Teixeira FRA (183) d. #3 Benoit Paire FRA (184)

Futures:
Croatia F3: Kristijan Mesaros CRO (201)
India F2: Adam Kellner HUN (293)
Italy F3: Dusan Lajovic SRB (227)
Spain F9: Jan-Lennard Struff GER (292)
Switzerland F2: Johannes Ager AUT (158)
Turkey F10: Miljan Zekic SRB (408)
Australia F3: James Lemke AUS (323)
Chile F1: Stefano Travaglia ITA (417)
Croatia F4: Kristijan Mesaros CRO (201)
Spain F10: Pedro Clar-Rossello ESP (303)
Switzerland F3: Chris Eaton GBR (402)
Thailand F1: Danai Udomchoke THA (242)
Turkey F11: Radu Albot MDA (498)
USA F8: Arnau Brugues-Davi ESP (264)

Riser of the Week (top 100):
Kevin Anderson RSA (44), Up 6
The South African has had a very solid start to the year, and got a great result in Miami. He made the quarterfinals, getting some solid wins over Nikolay Davydenko (47), Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (35) and John Isner (32), before falling to Novak Djokovic in the quarters.

Riser of the Week (other):
Maxime Teixeira FRA (183), Up 57
Teixeira had a huge run on the clay challenger circuit to move up into the top 200. He went 9-1 over the two weeks, making the final in Marrakech, then winning St. Brieuc. He beat Maxi Gonzalez (77), Jan Hajek (90) and Ivo Minar (153), among others, in his 9 wins.

Dropper of the Week (top 100):
Andy Roddick USA (13), Down 4
Roddick won Miami last year, beating Nicolas Almagro (15), Rafael Nadal and Tomas Berdych (9). This year, he suffered an upset first round loss to Pablo Cuevas (58), to take him out of the top 10.

Dropper of the Week (other):
Jan Minar CZE (356), Down 77
Minar has struggle with injuries since August, and while's he's still ranked, he lost a finals appearance at the Jersey challenger last year, dropping him out of the top 300. It's unclear when he'll return to action, and it's likely he'll fall out of the ranked players next week.

1 (1). Rafael Nadal ESP - 835.6
Last week: Miami F (l. Djokovic)

2 (3). Novak Djokovic SRB - 824.7
Last week: Miami W

3 (2). Roger Federer SUI - 822.3
Last week: Miami SF (l. Nadal)

4 (4). Robin Soderling SWE - 797.2
Last week: Miami R32 (l. del Potro)

5 (5). Andy Murray GBR - 791.9
Last week: Miami R64 (l. Bogomolov Jr.)

6 (6). David Ferrer ESP - 786.8
Last week: Miami QF (l. Fish)

7 (7). Stanislas Wawrinka SUI - 782.4
Last week: Miami R64 (l. Granollers)

8 (8). David Nalbandian ARG - 778.7
Last week: None

9 (10). Tomas Berdych CZE - 779.1
Last week: Miami QF (l. Nadal)

10 (11). Gael Monfils FRA - 774.0
Last week: None

11 (13). Mardy Fish USA - 773.6
Last week: Miami SF (l. Djokovic)

12 (-). Juan Martin del Potro ARG - 773.2
Last week: Miami R16 (l. Fish)

13 (9). Andy Roddick USA - 7769.4
Last week: Miami R64 (l. Cuevas)

14 (14). Jurgen Melzer AUT - 768.0
Last week: Miami R64 (l. Petzschner)

15 (15). Nicolas Almagro ESP - 766.0
Last week: Miami R32 (l. Mayer)

16 (12). Jo-Wilfried Tsonga FRA - 763.9
Last week: Miami R32 (l. Dolgopolov)

17 (16). Fernando Verdasco ESP - 763.2
Last week: Miami R64 (l. Andujar)

18 (18). Richard Gasquet FRA - 761.0
Last week: Miami R32 (l. Fish)

19 (17). Mikhail Youzhny RUS - 757.8
Last week: Miami R32 (l. Rochus)

20 (19). Viktor Troicki SRB - 757.5
Last week: Miami R16 (l. Djokovic)

21 (20). Gilles Simon FRA - 757.2
Last week: Miami QF (l. Federer)

22 (21). Philipp Kohlschreiber GER - 750.1
Last week: Miami R64 (l. del Potro)

23 (22). Marin Cilic CRO - 748.6
Last week: Miami R64 (l. Tipsarevic)

24 (24). Lleyton Hewitt AUS - 747.2
Last week: Miami R128 (l. Lu)

25 (23). Michael Llodra FRA - 746.4
Last week: Miami R32 (l. Granollers)

In: Juan Martin del Potro
Out: Juan Carlos Ferrero

March 21st Rankings - Juniors

2011-04-03T20:57:00.001-07:00

ATP U20 - The rankings for all players under 20 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

A huge week for Ryan Harrison, who made the fourth round at Indian Wells, beating another rising star in Milos Raonic, along with Chardy and Garcia-Lopez, two excellent players. He earned a matchup with Federer, and did well, entering the top 100.

1 (1). Grigor Dimitrov BUL (19.8) - #60, -1
Last week: Sarajevo CH R32

2 (2). Ryan Harrison USA (18.8) - #91, +19
Last week: Indian Wells R16

3 (3). Bernard Tomic AUS (18.4) - #115, +3
Last week: Indian Wells R64

4 (4). Filip Krajinovic SRB (19.0) - #203, +2
Last week: None

5 (5). Di Wu CHN (19.4) - #282, -11
Last week: Guangzhou CH R32

6 (6). Facundo Arguello ARG (18.6) - #284, +7
Last week: None

7 (7). Pablo Carreno-Busta ESP (19.7) - #286, +22
Last week: Rabat CH QF (Q)

8 (8). Laurynas Grigelis LTU (19.6) - #334, +8
Last week: None

9 (9). Tsung-Hua Yang TPE (19.9) - #341, +4
Last week: Kyoto CH R32

10 (10). Javier Marti ESP (19.2) - #373, +3
Last week: Portugal F2 FU QF

ATP U18 - The rankings for all players under 18 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Jason Kubler AUS (17.8) - #480, -37
Last week: Spain F7 FU R32; Spain F8 FU R16

2 (2). Suk-Young Jeong KOR (17.9) - #629, +3
Last week: None

3 (3). Robert Rumler CZE (17.3) - #689, +2
Last week: None

4 (4). Juan Ignacio Londero ARG (17.6) - #754, +3
Last week: None

ITF Juniors - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Bourgue and Quinzi dropped out, with Thiem and Morgan coming in in their places.

1 (1). Jiri Vesely CZE (17.6)
2 (4). Andres Artundeo Martinavarr ESP (17.4)
3 (2). Roberto Carballes Baena ESP (17.9)
4 (3). Joris De Loore BEL (17.8)
5 (5). Oliver Golding GBR (17.4)
6 (10). Mate Delic CRO (17.8)
7 (-). Dominic Thiem AUT (17.5)
8 (-). George Morgan GBR (18.1)
9 (6). Jannick Lupescu NED (17.6)
10 (9). Luke Saville AUS (17.0)

ITF Juniors U17 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Halebian moves back to #1, ahead of Quinzi.

1 (2). Alexios Halebian USA (16.7) - #21, +5
2 (1). Gianluigi Quinzi ITA (15.1) - #25, -8
3 (3). Miki Jankovic SRB (16.4) - #42, -9
4 (4). Thiago Moura Monteiro BRA (16.8) - #45, +1
5 (5). Jae Hwan Kim KOR (16.4) - #46, +1
6 (6). Julien Cagnina BEL (16.9) - #53, +4
7 (9). Enzo Couacaud FRA (16.0) - #54, +28
8 (8). Daniel Masur GER (16.3) - #70, +11
9 (7). Adam Pavlasek CZE (16.4) - #72, +6
10 (10). Kyle Edmund GBR (16.1) - #77, +9

ITF Juniors U16 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Ferreira Silva ages out from 3rd, with di Feo replacing him in 8th.

1 (1). Gianluigi Quinzi ITA (15.1) - #25, -8
2 (2). Nikola Milojevic SRB (15.7) - #98, +13
3 (4). Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul THA (15.9) - #144, +1
4 (5). Albert Alcaraz Ivorra ESP (15.8) - #165, -14
5 (7). Yoshihito Nishioka JPN (15.4) - #175, +29
6 (9). Nick Kyrgios AUS (15.8) - #190, +35
7 (10). Stefano Napolitano ITA (15.9) - #192, +35
8 (-). Hugo Di Feo CAN (15.9) - #201, +30
9 (6). Wayne Montgomery RSA (15.7) - #202, -13
10 (8). Chi-Shan Jao TPE (15.8) - #222, -10

March 21st Rankings - Women

2011-04-03T20:38:00.000-07:00

A third round loss from Vera Zvonareva sees her drop one spot to 4th, but the big mover is another Russian, Maria Sharapova, who moved up four places to 7th after making the semifinals. Dispalced due to Sharapova's rise were Flavia Penneta, who fell two spots to 9th, the retired Elena Dementieva, sitting 10th, and Francesca Schiavone, who dropped out of the top 10.

Winners:

Indian Wells
#1 Caroline Wozniacki DEN (2)
1st round Bye
2nd round Sloane Stephens USA (163) | 6-3 6-2
3rd round #28 Maria-Jose Martinez Sanchez ESP (30) | 6-1 6-3
4th round #22 Alisa Kleybanova RUS (27) | 2-6 6-3 6-1
Quarters #8 Victoria Azarenka BLR (14) | 3-0 Retired
Semis #16 Maria Sharapova RUS (7) | 6-1 6-2
Final #15 Marion Bartoli FRA (24) | 6-1 2-6 6-3
Average Opponent Rank 44.2

Wozniacki had a very nice win in California, but was fortunate to avoid much serious challenge, with easy wins over top two players she faced, Sharapova and Azarenka. Kleybanova and Bartoli were tougher opposition, but the Dane got through to claim the title.

ITF events:

100K
Nassau: Anastasia Yakimova BLR (127) d. #5 Angelique Kerber GER (55)

25K
Clearwater: Ajla Tomljanovic CRO (125) d. #5 Sessil Karatantcheva KAZ (151)
Irapuato: Marina Erakovic NZL (213) d. Andrej Klepac SLO (295)
Sanya: #8 Ling Zhang HKG (216) d. #3 Iryna Bremond FRA (165)

10K
Antalya: Bibiane Schoofs NED (298)
Concepcion: Aleksandrina Naydenova BUL (n/a)
Dijon: Alison Van Uytvanck BEL (320)
Madrid: Lara Arruabarrena-Vecino ESP (153)
Santiago: Paula Ormaechea ARG (281)

Amiens: Nastassja Burnett ITA (n/a)
Antalya: Cristina Dinu ROU (214)
Bath: Marta Sirotkina RUS (275)
Fallanden: Myriam Casanova SUI (n/a)
Madrid: Julia Mayr ITA (231)
Metepec: Teliana Pereira BRA (385)
Miyazaki: Kanae Hisami JPN (424)

Riser of the Week (top 100):
Dinara Safina RUS (49), Up 16
Safina won three straight matches for the first time in more than a year, and pulled herself back into the top 50. She had some nice wins in there, too, beating Daniela Hantuchova (28) and Samantha Stosur (6), before falling to Maria Sharapova in the round of 16. A great bounceback after being dropper of the week last week.

Riser of the Week (other):
Marina Erakovic NZL (213), Up 53
The New Zealander won an ITF event in Irapuato this week, gaining more than 50 places after beating Julia Cohen (297), Ivana Lisjak (149) and Andreja Klepac (295) en route to the title.

Dropper of the Week (top 100):
Jelena Jankovic SRB (22), Down 6
Jankovic won Indian Wells last season, beating Shahar Peer (12), Stosur and Caroline Wozniacki to win the title. This year, though, she only managed to make the fourth round, losing to her countrywoman Ana Ivanovic (20).

Dropper of the Week (other):
Alicia Molik AUS (196), Down 33
Last year, Molik had a wild card for IW, and proceeded to roll of three wins, beating Anabel Medina Garrigues (102) and Elena Baltacha (71) to make the fourth round. Since then, though, she has not won back-to-back main draw matches, and she has not played since winning a match in Melbourne this year.

1 (1). Kim Clijsters BEL - 846.2
Last week: Indian Wells R16 (l. Bartoli)

2 (2). Caroline Wozniacki DEN - 819.7
Last week: Indian Wells W

3 (4). Justine Henin BEL - 815.4
Last week: None

4 (3). Vera Zvonareva RUS - 811.1
Last week: Indian Wells R32 (l. Cibulkova)

5 (5). Venus Williams USA - 808.4
Last week: None

6 (6). Samantha Stosur AUS - 790.4
Last week: Indian Wells R32 (l. Safina)

7 (11). Maria Sharapova RUS - 784.0
Last week: Indian Wells SF (l. Wozniacki)

8 (8). Na Li CHN - 783.3
Last week: Indian Wells R64 (l. Peng)

9 (7). Flavia Pennetta ITA - 782.7
Last week: Indian Wells R32 (l. Kleybanova)

10 (9). Elena Dementieva RUS - 781.1
Last week: None

11 (10). Francesca Schiavone ITA - 781.1
Last week: Indian Wells R16 (l. Peer)

12 (13). Shahar Peer ISR - 780.6
Last week: Indian Wells QF (l. Wickmayer)

13 (12). Kaia Kanepi EST - 780.1
Last week: Indian Wells R32 (l. Wickmayer)

14 (18). Victoria Azarenka BLR - 778.5
Last week: Indian Wells QF (l. Wozniacki)

15 (15). Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS - 777.0
Last week: Indian Wells R64 (l. McHale)

16 (14). Petra Kvitova CZE - 773.9
Last week: Indian Wells R64 (l. Zahlavova Strycova); Nassau ITF R32 (l. Barrois)

17 (17). Agnieszka Radwanska POL - 773.4
Last week: Indian Wells R16 (l. Azarenka)

18 (20). Shuai Peng CHN - 772.1
Last week: Indian Wells QF (l. Sharapova)

19 (19). Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS - 771.5
Last week: Indian Wells R32 (l. Peer)

20 (22). Ana Ivanovic SRB - 770.9
Last week: Indian Wells QF (l. Bartoli)

21 (21). Andrea Petkovic GER - 769.5
Last week: Indian Wells R32 (l. Bartoli)

22 (16). Jelena Jankovic SRB - 769.4
Last week: Indian Wells R16 (l. Ivanovic)

23 (23). Yanina Wickmayer BEL - 769.1
Last week: Indian Wells SF (l. Bartoli)

24 (25). Marion Bartoli FRA - 765.6
Last week: Indian Wells F (l. Wozniacki)

25 (24). Nadia Petrova RUS - 763.2
Last week: Indian Wells R16 (l. Peng)

In: None
Out: None

March 21st Rankings

2011-04-02T09:06:00.000-07:00

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

March 7th - Junior Rankings

2011-03-10T19:07:00.001-08:00

ATP U20 - The rankings for all players under 20 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

The biggest week from one of these young players came from Wu, who won his side a huge Davis Cup tie with Taiwan by beating both Yen-Hsun Lu and fellow top 10 man Tsung-Hua Yang.

1 (1). Grigor Dimitrov BUL (19.8) - #59, +5
Last week: Cherbourg CH W

2 (3). Ryan Harrison USA (18.8) - #110, +7
Last week: Dallas CH QF

3 (2). Bernard Tomic AUS (18.3) - #118, -8
Last week: Dallas CH R32

4 (4). Filip Krajinovic SRB (19.0) - #205, +12
Last week: None

5 (6). Di Wu CHN (19.4) - #271, +30
Last week: DC v. TPE (2-0)

6 (5). Facundo Arguello ARG (18.5) - #291, -15
Last week: Salinas CH R32

7 (7). Pablo Carreno-Busta ESP (19.6) - #308, -3
Last week: None

8 (9). Laurynas Grigelis LTU (19.5) - #342, -4
Last week: DC v. EST (0-1)

9 (8). Tsung-Hua Yang TPE (19.9) - #345, -9
Last week: DC v. CHN (0-2)

10 (10). Javier Marti ESP (19.1) - #376, -13
Last week: Portugal F1 R32

ATP U18 - The rankings for all players under 18 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Jason Kubler AUS (17.8) - #443, -1
Last week: None

2 (2). Suk-Young Jeong KOR (17.9) - #632, -8
Last week: DC v. SYR (0-1)

3 (3). Robert Rumler CZE (17.2) - #691, -8
Last week: Ukraine F1 R32

4 (4). Juan Ignacio Londero ARG (17.5) - #757, +4
Last week: None

ITF Juniors - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Gianluigi Quinzi makes a spectacular entry into the top 10, as a 15 year old who has won all five tournament he's played in the past year, including a G2 event, his highest, this week.

1 (1). Jiri Vesely CZE (17.6)
2 (2). Roberto Carballes Baena ESP (17.9)
3 (5). Joris De Loore BEL (17.8)
4 (3). Andres Artundeo Martinavarr ESP (17.4)
5 (4). Oliver Golding GBR (17.4)
6 (6). Jannick Lupescu NED (17.6)
7 (-). Gianluigi Quinzi ITA (15.0)
8 (7). Mathias Bourgue FRA (17.1)
9 (9). Luke Saville AUS (17.0)
10 (8). Mate Delic CRO (17.8)

ITF Juniors U17 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Quinzi moves into the #1 spot in these rankings.

1 (-). Gianluigi Quinzi ITA (15.0) - #17, +87
2 (1). Alexios Halebian USA (16.7) - #26, -1
3 (2). Miki Jankovic SRB (16.4) - #33, +4
4 (3). Thiago Moura Monteiro BRA (16.7) - #46, -5
5 (4). Jae Hwan Kim KOR (16.4) - #47, +6
6 (5). Julien Cagnina BEL (16.9) - #57, +3
7 (6). Adam Pavlasek CZE (16.4) - #78, -11
8 (8). Daniel Masur GER (16.3) - #81, +3
9 (7). Enzo Couacaud FRA (16.0) - #82, 0
10 (9). Kyle Edmund GBR (16.1) - #83, +3

ITF Juniors U16 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Couacaud ages out, but Quinzi would have replaced him at #1 anyways. Entering is South Africa's Wayne Montgomery.

1 (2). Gianluigi Quinzi ITA (15.0) - #17, +87
2 (3). Nikola Milojevic SRB (15.7) - #111, +5
3 (4). Frederico Ferreira Silva POR (15.9) - #117, +4
4 (6). Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul THA (15.9) - #145, +23
5 (5). Albert Alcaraz Ivorra ESP (15.8) - #151, +3
6 (-). Wayne Montgomery RSA (15.6) - #89, +77
7 (7). Yoshihito Nishioka JPN (15.4) - #204, -22
8 (8). Chi-Shan Jao TPE (15.7) - #212, +15
9 (-). Nick Kyrgios AUS (15.8) - #225, +16
10 (9). Stefano Napolitano ITA (15.9) - #227, +3

March 7th Rankings - Women

2011-03-10T18:38:00.001-08:00

Just one change, as Francesca Schiavone falls one spot to 10th, with retired Elena Dementieva moving past her.

Winners:

Kuala Lumpur
Jelena Dokic AUS (57)
1st round #1 Francesca Schiavone ITA (10) | 2-6 7-6(1) 6-4
2nd round Kurumi Nara JPN (120) | 3-6 7-6(6) 6-2
Quarters #8 Bojana Jovanovski SRB (59) | 7-6(4) 6-2
Semis Michaella Krajicek NED (114) | 6-2 6-3
Final #5 Lucie Safarova CZE (37) | 2-6 7-6(9) 6-4
Average Opponent Rank 68.0

Monterrey
#2 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS (19)
1st round Eleni Daniilidou GRE (144) | 6-2 6-7(5) 6-4
2nd round Melanie Oudin USA (81) | 6-2 7-6(6)
Quarters Greta Arn HUN (58) | 6-2 7-6(3)
Semis Gisela Dulko ARG (48)| 6-4 6-1
Final #1 Jelena Jankovic SRB (16) | 2-6 6-2 6-3
Average Opponent Rank 18.7

Jelena Dokic won her first WTA tournament in almost a full decade in KL, a real boost to her recent rejuvanation, after several dark years in her career. She was fortunate to get a couple of players outside the top 100, but also got a good win over Schiavone in round 1, and had to survive match points against in the tiebreaker against Safarova.

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova won the other event, in Monterrey, putting together some nice wins int he first few rounds, before taking out Jelena Jankovic in the final.

ITF events:

25K
Hammond: #5 Madison Brengle USA (172) d. #3 Stephanie Foretz Gacon FRA (147)
Sydney: Yurika Sema JPN (406) d. #7 Rika Fujiwara JPN (371)

10K
Antalya: Cristina Dinu ROU (237)
Lyon: Anna-Guilia Remondina ITA (284)

Riser of the Week (top 100):
Jelena Dokic AUS (57), Up 20
Dokic, who started the year right at the edge of the top 100, has made a solid push up towards the top 50 after winning that title in Malaysia.

Riser of the Week (other):
Cristina Dinu ROU (237), Up 46
This 18-year-old Romanian won an ITF level title in Turkey, getting wins over Oxana Lyubtsova (264), and Diana Enache (334), moving her into the top 250.

Dropper of the Week (top 100):
Dinara Safina RUS (65), Down 6
Frankly, given how poor Safina has been recently, having not won back-to-back matches since September, I was surprised she was actually this high to begin with. She did manage to win her first match of 2011, beating Xinyun Han (133), but her second round loss gave her a modest drop.

Dropper of the Week (other):
Yi-Fan Xu CHN (322), Down 54
This time last year, Xu made the semifinals of an ITF event in Louisiana, beating Anastasia Yakimova (142) and Stephanie Foretz Gacon (147). This year, she tried her hand at qualifying for Kuala Lumpur, but lost in the first round to Galina Voskoboeva (n/a).

1 (1). Kim Clijsters BEL - 846.5
Last week: None

2 (2). Caroline Wozniacki DEN - 817.7
Last week: None

3 (5). Vera Zvonareva RUS - 812.5
Last week: Doha W

4 (4). Justine Henin BEL - 811.3
Last week: None

5 (5). Venus Williams USA - 809.5
Last week: None

6 (6). Samantha Stosur AUS - 795.0
Last week: None

7 (7). Flavia Pennetta ITA - 784.4
Last week: None

8 (8). Na Li CHN - 782.8
Last week: None

9 (10). Elena Dementieva RUS - 782.0
Last week: None

10 (9). Francesca Schiavone ITA - 780.5
Last week: Kuala Lumpur R32 (l. Dokic)

11 (11). Maria Sharapova RUS - 780.2
Last week: None

12 (13). Kaia Kanepi EST - 779.8
Last week: None

13 (12). Shahar Peer ISR - 779.7
Last week: None

14 (14). Petra Kvitova CZE - 778.3
Last week: None

15 (15). Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS - 777.4
Last week: None

16 (18). Jelena Jankovic SRB - 777.4
Last week: Monterrey W

17 (16). Agnieszka Radwanska POL - 777.2
Last week: None

18 (17). Victoria Azarenka BLR - 775.4
Last week: None

19 (19). Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS - 771.2
Last week: Monterrey W

20 (20). Shuai Peng CHN - 770.5
Last week: None

21 (22). Andrea Petkovic GER - 768.5
Last week: None

22 (21). Ana Ivanovic SRB - 768.4
Last week: None

23 (23). Yanina Wickmayer BEL - 766.7
Last week: None

24 (24). Nadia Petrova RUS - 766.3
Last week: None

25 (25). Marion Bartoli FRA - 758.1
Last week: Kuala Lumpur QF (l. Safarova)

In: None
Out: None

March 7th Rankings

2011-03-10T17:34:00.001-08:00

No changes in the top 10, though Tsonga makes a move up to #11.

Winners:
No ATP tournaments this week, as Davis Cup dominated the schedule.

Challengers:
Cherbourg: #1 Grigor Dimitrov BUL (59) d. #2 Nicolas Mahut FRA (79)
Dallas: Alex Bogomolov Jr. USA (135) d. #4 Rainer Schuettler GER (100)
Salinas: Andres Molteni ARG (231) d. #2 Horacio Zeballos ARG (129)

Futures:
USA F6: Dayne Kelly AUS (344)
Australia F2: Benjamin Mitchell AUS (451)
Ukraine F1: Artem Smirnov UKR (290)
Canada F1: Charles-Antoine Brezac FRA (297)
Turkey F7: Radu Albot MDA (529)
Portugal F1: Kamil Capkovic SVK (416)

Riser of the Week (top 100):
Jeremy Chardy FRA (26), Up 8
The Frenchman was the hero of the hour for the French, as he stepped in to win two huge Davis Cup matches, ensuring victory in the tie. He beat Jurgen Melzer (14) impressively in the first rubber, then, in the final, decisive match, he held on against Martin Fischer (184) and the Austrian supporters.

Riser of the Week (other):
Jack Sock USA (397), Up 69
An 18-year-old American talent, Sock moved into the top 400 with a nice showing at the Dallas challenger, where he beat two experienced pros in Rik de Voest (142) and Bjorn Phau (105) to make the semifinals.

Dropper of the Week (top 100):
Janko Tipsarevic (34), Down 7
Tipsarevic had one of the least likely losses in the World Group, as he dropped a straight sets match at home against Somdev Devvarman (141) in straight sets. He then managed to win the final dead rubber, but it was over a lowly ranked player, and didn't give him any benefit.

Dropper of the Week (other):
Arnaud Clement FRA (127), Down 19
The 33-year-old Frenchmen is one of the older pros still out there, but his best is clearly past him. He took a very bad loss this week, falling to Stefan Seifert (n/a), and dropping well away from the top 100.

1 (1). Rafael Nadal ESP - 835.9
Last week: DC v. BEL (2-0)

2 (2). Roger Federer SUI - 819.3
Last week: None

3 (3). Novak Djokovic SRB - 815.6
Last week: None

4 (4). Robin Soderling SWE - 801.9
Last week: DC v. RUS (1-0)

5 (5). Andy Murray GBR - 797.7
Last week: None

6 (6). David Ferrer ESP - 790.4
Last week: None

7 (7). Andy Roddick USA - 783.6
Last week: DC v. CHI (2-0)

8 (8). Stanislas Wawrinka SUI - 783.1
Last week: None

9 (9). Tomas Berdych CZE - 780.6
Last week: DC v. KAZ (1-1)

10 (10). David Nalbandian ARG - 779.0
Last week: DC v. ROU (1-0)

11 (14). Jo-Wilfried Tsonga FRA - 774.0
Last week: None

12 (11). Mardy Fish USA - 772.1
Last week: None

13 (12). Gael Monfils FRA - 771.5
Last week: None

14 (13). Jurgen Melzer AUT - 770.9
Last week: DC v. FRA (1-1)

15 (15). Nicolas Almagro ESP - 770.6
Last week: None

16 (16). Fernando Verdasco ESP - 767.0
Last week: DC v. BEL (1-0)

17 (17). Mikhail Youzhny RUS - 764.1
Last week: Nona

18 (18). Gilles Simon FRA - 756.9
Last week: Dubai QF (l. Gasquet)

19 (20). Viktor Troicki SRB - 754.0
Last week: DC v. IND (2-0)

20 (19). Richard Gasquet FRA - 753.1
Last week: None

21 (21). Philipp Kohlschreiber GER - 751.8
Last week: DC v. CRO (1-1)

22 (23). Marin Cilic CRO - 750.7
Last week: DC v. GER (2-0)

23 (22). Lleyton Hewitt AUS - 750.3
Last week: None

24 (24). Michael Llodra FRA - 745.8
Last week: None

25 (25). Ivan Ljubicic CRO - 745.0
Last week: None

In: None
Out: None

February 28th - Junior Rankings

2011-03-03T17:42:00.000-08:00

ATP U20 - The rankings for all players under 20 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Grigor Dimitrov BUL (19.8) - #64, +1
Last week: Dubai R32 (Q)

2 (3). Bernard Tomic AUS (18.3) - #110, -4
Last week: Delray Beach QR1

3 (2). Ryan Harrison USA (18.8) - #117, -12
Last week: Delray Beach R32

4 (4). Filip Krajinovic SRB (19.0) - #217, +1
Last week: None

5 (6). Facundo Arguello ARG (18.5) - #276, +2
Last week: None

6 (7). Di Wu CHN (19.4) - #301, +13
Last week: None

7 (5). Pablo Carreno-Busta ESP (19.6) - #305, -30
Last week: None

8 (8). Tsung-Hua Yang TPE (19.9) - #336, -13
Last week: Australia F1 FU

9 (9). Laurynas Grigelis LTU (19.5) - #338, +1
Last week: Wolfsburg CH QR1

10 (10). Javier Marti ESP (19.1) - #363, +1
Last week: None

ATP U18 - The rankings for all players under 18 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Jason Kubler AUS (17.7) - #442, -10
Last week: None

2 (2). Suk-Young Jeong KOR (17.8) - #624, -1
Last week: None

3 (3). Robert Rumler CZE (17.2) - #683, 0
Last week: None

4 (4). Juan Ignacio Londero ARG (17.5) - #761, -3
Last week: None

ITF Juniors - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Jiri Vesely CZE (17.6)
2 (2). Roberto Carballes Baena ESP (17.9)
3 (3). Andres Artundeo Martinavarr ESP (17.4)
4 (4). Oliver Golding GBR (17.3)
5 (5). Joris De Loore BEL (17.8)
6 (6). Jannick Lupescu NED (17.6)
7 (7). Mathias Bourgue FRA (17.0)
8 (8). Mate Delic CRO (17.8)
9 (10). Luke Saville AUS (17.0)
10 (9). Guilherme Clezar BRA (18.1)

ITF Juniors U17 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Lucas Pouille ages out, Laurent Lokoli enters in 10th.

1 (1). Alexios Halebian USA (16.7) - #25, +1
2 (2). Miki Jankovic SRB (16.4) - #37, +4
3 (3). Thiago Moura Monteiro BRA (16.7) - #41, +2
4 (5). Jae Hwan Kim KOR (16.4) - #53, -2
5 (6). Julien Cagnina BEL (16.8) - #60, +3
6 (8). Adam Pavlasek CZE (16.3) - #67, 0
7 (9). Enzo Couacaud FRA (15.9) - #82, -1
8 (7). Daniel Masur GER (16.3) - #84, -18
9 (10). Kyle Edmund GBR (16.1) - #86, +2
10 (-). Laurent Lokoli FRA (16.3) - #96, -1

ITF Juniors U16 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Favrot ages out, replaced by Di Feo.

1 (1). Enzo Couacaud FRA (15.9) - #82, -1
2 (2). Gianlugi Quinzi (15.0) - #104, +10
3 (4). Nikola Milojevic SRB (15.6) - #116, +8
4 (3). Frederico Ferreira Silva POR (15.9) - #121, +1
5 (5). Albert Alcaraz Ivorra ESP (15.7) - #154, +2
6 (6). Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul THA (15.8) - #168, +7
7 (8). Yoshihito Nishioka JPN (15.4) - #182, +27
8 (10). Chi-Shan Jao TPE (15.7) - #227, +16
9 (9). Stefano Napolitano ITA (15.8) - #230, +2
10 (-). Hugo Di Feo CAN (15.8) - #237, +12

February 28th Rankings - Women

2011-03-03T17:41:00.000-08:00

A nice rise for Vera Zvonareva, who goes up to third by virtue of her win in Doha. Falling is Venus Williams, who drops to 5th. Francesca Schiavone drops two spots to 9th, with Flavia Pennetta and Na Li rising one spot each.

Winners:

Acapulco
#4 Gisela Dulko ARG (49)
1st round Anna Tatishvili GEO (132) | 6-3 6-1
2nd round Silvia Soler-Espinosa ESP (157) | 6-1 6-1
Quarters Laura Pous-Tio ESP (100) | 3-6 7-5 6-0
Semis Anabel Medina Garrigues ESP (112) | 6-0 6-2
Final #6 Arantxa Parra-Santonja ESP (76) | 6-3 7-6(5)
Average Opponent Rank 115.4

Doha
#2 Vera Zvonareva RUS (3)
1st round Bye
2nd round Dominika Cibulkova SVK (28) | 6-1 6-2
Quarters Daniela Hantuchova SVK (27) | 7-5 6-7(5) 7-5
Semis #5 Jelena Jankovic SRB (18) | 6-1 2-6 6-4
Final #1 Caroline Wozniacki DEN (2) | 6-4 6-4
Average Opponent Rank 18.7

Gisela Dulko won the tournament in Acapulco, a fairly weak event that saw her play just one top 100 player, and no top 50 players. The higher seeds lost quite early, allowing Dulko a fairly easy ride to the title.

Vera Zvonareva had a great win in Doha, getting a some excellent wins, none better than the straight sets beating of Caroline Wozniacki, which moved Zvonareva up to #3.

ITF events:

25K
Mildura: Su-Wei Hsieh TPE (131) d. #2 Katie O'Brien GBR (272)

10K
Antalya: Dia Evtimova BUL (236)
Mumbai: Varatchaya Wongteanchai THA (514)
Zell Am Harmersbach: Nina Zander GER (352)
Portimao: Ani Mijacika CRO (361)

Riser of the Week (top 100):
Arantxa Parra-Santonja ESP (76), Up 20
Parra-Santonja, a Spanish journeywoman, made the finals in Acapulco, losing to Dulko, but beating Johanna Larsson (66), Lourdes Dominguez-Lino (68) and Sybille Bammer (94) en route.

Riser of the Week (other):
Silvia Soler-Espinosa ESP (157), Up 19
Soler-Espinosa qualified for the main draw in Acapulco by winning three matches, including taking out Corinna Dentoni (160) in the final round, then won a match in the main draw over Jill Craybas (143), before losing to the eventual champion Dulko.

Dropper of the Week (top 100):
Polona Hercog SLO (88), Down 15
Hercog was a finalist in Acapulco last year, picking up several good wins, beating Carla Suarez Navarro (62), Agnes Szavay (35) and Alize Cornet (71), before losing to Venus Williams (5). This year, she lost in the first round, to Dominguez-Lino (68)

Dropper of the Week (other):
Catalina Castano COL (218), Down 32
Castano didn't play this week, but drops out of the top 200, as she lost her Acapulco tournament from last year, where she qualified for the main draw, and beat Klara Zakopalova (38) in the first round.

1 (1). Kim Clijsters BEL - 846.1
Last week: None

2 (2). Caroline Wozniacki DEN - 817.5
Last week: Doha F (l. Zvonareva)

3 (5). Vera Zvonareva RUS - 811.9
Last week: Doha W

4 (4). Justine Henin BEL - 810.9
Last week: None

5 (3). Venus Williams USA - 809.5
Last week: None

6 (6). Samantha Stosur AUS - 794.7
Last week: None

7 (8). Flavia Pennetta ITA - 783.4
Last week: Doha QF (l. Wozniacki)

8 (9). Na Li CHN - 782.7
Last week: Doha R32 (l. Zakopalova)

9 (7). Francesca Schiavone ITA - 782.2
Last week: Doha R16 (l. Peng)

10 (10). Elena Dementieva RUS - 781.4
Last week: None

11 (12). Maria Sharapova RUS - 779.8
Last week: None

12 (11). Shahar Peer ISR - 779.2
Last week: Doha R16 (l. Bartoli)

13 (16). Kaia Kanepi EST - 778.0
Last week: None

14 (15). Petra Kvitova CZE - 777.6
Last week: None

15 (14). Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS - 777.2
Last week: Doha R32 (l. Peer)

16 (13). Agnieszka Radwanska POL - 777.0
Last week: Doha R32 (l. Safarova)

17 (17). Victoria Azarenka BLR - 774.5
Last week: Doha R32 (l. Hantuchova)

18 (18). Jelena Jankovic SRB - 774.4
Last week: Doha SF (l. Zvonareva)

19 (19). Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS - 771.1
Last week: None

20 (22). Shuai Peng CHN - 770.2
Last week: Doha QF (Q) (l, Bartoli)

21 (20). Ana Ivanovic SRB - 768.5
Last week: None

22 (21). Andrea Petkovic GER - 767.8
Last week: None

23 (23). Yanina Wickmayer BEL - 766.3
Last week: None

24 (24). Nadia Petrova RUS - 765.7
Last week: Doha R16 (l. Wozniacki)

25 (28). Marion Bartoli FRA - 759.0
Last week: Doha SF (l. Wozniacki

In: Marion Bartoli
Out: Alisa Kleybanova

February 28th Rankings

2011-03-03T16:55:00.000-08:00

Andy Roddick's rise continues, as he comes up one spot to 7th, dropping Stanislas Wawrinka.

Winners:
Acapulco
#1 David Ferrer ESP (6)
1st round Adrian Ungur ROU (177)| 6-1 6-2
2nd round Santiago Gonzalez MEX (362) | 6-2 6-2
Quarters #7 Juan Monaco ARG (57) | 2-6 7-5 6-2
Semis #6 Alexandr Dolgopolov UKR (27) | 5-7 6-1 6-1
Final #3 Nicolas Almagro ESP (15) | 7-6(4) 6-7(2) 6-2
Average Opponent Rank 127.6

Delray Beach
Juan Martin del Potro ARG (n/a)
1st round Richard Berankis LTU (53) | 6-4 6-1
2nd round Teymuraz Gabashvili RUS (94) | 6-1 6-1
Quarters #5 Kevin Anderson RSA (49) | 6-4 6-4
Semis #2 Mardy Fish USA (11) | 6-1 7-5
Final #6 Janko Tipsarevic SRB (40) | 6-4 6-4
Average Opponent 49.4

Dubai
#2 Novak Djokovic SRB (3)
1st round Michael Llodra FRA (24) | 6-3 6-3
2nd round Feliciano Lopez ESP (42) | 6-3 2-6 6-4
Quarters Florian Mayer GER (26) | 7-5 6-1
Semis #3 Tomas Berdych CZE (9) | 6-7(5) 6-2 4-2 Ret.
Final #1 Roger Federer SUI (2) | 6-3 6-3
Average Opponent 20.6

David Ferrer took the 500 level title in Acapulco. He had two fairly easy matches to open the tournament, but then had three games against seeded teams, with all three taking him to three sets. However, he pulled out victories in all matches, including coming from behind against Monaco and Dolgopolov.

Juan Martin del Potro isn't yet ranked, as he's not at the 25-match cutoff, but based on his recent results, it looks like he's rounding back into form, and he should be back in the top 25 soon enough. He had an excellent week at Delray Beach, not dropping a set. Only one serious challenge was there, in Mardy Fish, but del Potro still did well to take the title.

The biggest event of the week was in Dubai, where Novak Djokovic continued his run as the hottest player on tour in 2011. He faced four top 30 opponents, and while he lost a set in the semis to Berdych, he took a relatively easy win over Federer in the final.

Challengers:
Casablanca: Evgeny Donskoy RUS (167) d. #7 Alessio di Mauro ITA (118)
Wolfsburg: Ruben Bemelmans BEL (143) d. Dominik Meffert GER (149)

Futures:
Turkey F6: Cedrik-Marcel Stebe GER (231)
Croatia F2: Nikola Mektic CRO (239)
USA F5: Nicholas Monroe USA (320)
Australia F1: James Lemke AUS (334)

Riser of the Week (top 100):
Florian Mayer GER (26), Up 8
Mayer has quietly had a solid season this year, and is working his way up into the top 25. He had two wins this week in Dubai, beating Jarkko Nieminen (45) and Andrey Golubev (60), before losing to the eventual champion, Djokovic.

Riser of the Week (other):
Evgeny Donskoy RUS (167), Up 52
Donskoy's win in Casablanca moves him into the top 200, as he racked up some very solid wins. He beat Alessio di Mauro (118) in the final, but also took out Bastian Knittel (164), Olivier Patience (166) and Jaroslav Pospisil (104).

Dropper of the Week (top 100):
Ernests Gulbis LAT (34), Down 7
After a couple of early losses in recent tournaments, Gulbis did manage a win in Dubai, before losing to Sergiy Stakhovsky (58). Last year, though, he had won the Delray Beach tournament, and without that victory he falls away from the top 25.

Dropper of the Week (other):
Henri Kontinen FIN (211), Down 33
Odd for such a young player to be featured here, but the 20-year-old Finn dropped after losing a Futures win from last season that saw him beat Alexander Peya (243) and Dennis Bloemke (273).

1 (1). Rafael Nadal ESP - 836.9
Last week: None

2 (2). Roger Federer SUI - 820.4
Last week: Dubai F (l. Djokovic)

3 (3). Novak Djokovic SRB - 817.0
Last week: Dubai W

4 (4). Robin Soderling SWE - 802.5
Last week: None

5 (5). Andy Murray GBR - 798.7
Last week: None

6 (6). David Ferrer ESP - 791.9
Last week: Acapulco W

7 (8). Andy Roddick USA - 784.5
Last week: None

8 (7). Stanislas Wawrinka SUI - 783.9
Last week: Acapulco QF (l. Dolgopolov)

9 (9). Tomas Berdych CZE - 782.9
Last week: Dubai SF (l. Djokovic)

10 (10). David Nalbandian ARG - 779.7
Last week: None

11 (13). Mardy Fish USA - 773.6
Last week: Delray Beach SF (l. del Potro)

12 (12). Gael Monfils FRA - 773.5
Last week: None

13 (11). Jurgen Melzer AUT - 772.6
Last week: None

14 (14). Jo-Wilfried Tsonga FRA - 772.2
Last week: None

15 (15). Nicolas Almagro ESP - 770.5
Last week: Acapulco F (l. Ferrer)

16 (17). Fernando Verdasco ESP - 767.2
Last week: Acapulco R32 (l. Bellucci)

17 (16). Mikhail Youzhny RUS - 764.6
Last week: Dubai R32 (l. Simon)

18 (19). Gilles Simon FRA - 756.9
Last week: Dubai QF (l. Gasquet)

19 (21). Richard Gasquet FRA - 754.1
Last week: Dubai SF (l. Federer)

20 (18). Viktor Troicki SRB - 753.8
Last week: Dubai R32 (l. Kohlschreiber)

21 (20). Philipp Kohlschreiber GER - 752.0
Last week: Dubai R16 (l. Petzschner)

22 (23). Lleyton Hewitt AUS - 751.1
Last week: None

23 (24). Marin Cilic CRO - 748.8
Last week: None

24 (25). Michael Llodra FRA - 746.4
Last week: Dubai R32 (l. Djokovic)

25 (22). Ivan Ljubicic CRO - 745.9
Last week: Dubai R32 (l. Bubka)

In: Michael Llodra
Out: Juan Carlos Ferrero

February 21st Junior Rankings

2011-03-02T12:55:00.001-08:00

ATP U20 - The rankings for all players under 20 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Kuznetsov ages out from 5th.

1 (1). Grigor Dimitrov BUL (19.7) - #65, -3
Last week: Marseille R32

2 (2). Ryan Harrison USA (18.8) - #105, -6
Last week: Memphis QR1

3 (3). Bernard Tomic AUS (18.3) - #106, +3
Last week: None

4 (4). Filip Krajinovic SRB (18.9) - #218, +1
Last week: None

5 (7). Pablo Carreno-Busta ESP (19.6) - #275, +9
Last week: Spain F6 FU F

6 (6). Facundo Arguello ARG (18.5) - #278, -12
Last week: Buenos Aires QR1

7 (8). Di Wu CHN (19.4) - #314, +3
Last week: None

8 (9). Tsung-Hua Yang TPE (19.9) - #323, -1
Last week: None

9 (10). Laurynas Grigelis LTU (19.5) - #339, +3
Last week: None

10 (-). Javier Marti ESP (19.1) - #364, +9
Last week: None

ATP U18 - The rankings for all players under 18 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Jason Kubler AUS (17.7) - #432, +9
Last week: None

2 (2). Suk-Young Jeong KOR (17.8) - #623, +3
Last week: None

3 (3). Robert Rumler CZE (17.2) - #683, -1
Last week: Croatia F1 QR2

4 (4). Juan Ignacio Londero ARG (17.5) - #758, +2
Last week: Buenos Aires Q R1

ITF Juniors - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Jiri Vesely CZE (17.6)
2 (2). Roberto Carballes Baena ESP (17.9)
3 (3). Andres Artundeo Martinavarr ESP (17.4)
4 (4). Oliver Golding GBR (17.3)
5 (5). Joris De Loore BEL (17.8)
6 (6). Jannick Lupescu NED (17.6)
7 (7). Mathias Bourgue FRA (17.0)
8 (8). Mate Delic CRO (17.8)
9 (9). George Morgan GBR (18.0)
10 (10). Luke Saville AUS (17.0)

ITF Juniors U17 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Alexios Halebian USA (16.7) - #26, +3
2 (2). Miki Jankovic SRB (16.4) - #41, -1
3 (3). Thiago Moura Monteiro BRA (16.7) - #43, -1
4 (4). Lucas Pouille FRA (16.9) - #45, +1
5 (6). Jae Hwan Kim KOR (16.4) - #51, +2
6 (8). Julien Cagnina BEL (16.8) - #63, +7
7 (9). Daniel Masur GER (16.2) - #66, +17
8 (7). Adam Pavlasek CZE (16.3) - #67, 0
9 (10). Enzo Couacaud FRA (15.9) - #81, +3
10 (-). Kyle Edmund GBR (16.1) - #88, +4

ITF Juniors U16 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Enzo Couacaud FRA (15.9) - #81, +3
2 (2). Gianlugi Quinzi (15.0) - #114, -3
3 (5). Frederico Ferreira Silva POR (15.9) - #122, +7
4 (4). Nikola Milojevic SRB (15.6) - #124, +4
5 (7). Albert Alcaraz Ivorra ESP (15.7) - #156, +32
6 (6). Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul THA (15.8) - #175, -2
7 (8). Alxandre Favrot FRA (15.9) - #198, +10
8 (9). Yoshihito Nishioka JPN (15.4) - #209, +5
9 (-). Stefano Napolitano ITA (15.8) - #232, +10
10 (10). Chi-Shan Jao TPE (15.7) - #243, -23

February 21st Rankings - Women

2011-03-02T12:25:00.000-08:00

A huge change at #2, as Dubai winner Caroline Wozniacki displaces Venus Williams at that spot. Changes also come at the bottom, as Schiavone lifts two places, Flavia Pennetta lifts three spots to 8th, and Elena Dementieva reenters the top 10, despite her reitrement. Na Li drops two spots to 9th, while Shahar Peer and Maria Sharapova fall out of the top 10.

Winners:

Bogota
#7 Lourdes Dominguez-Lino ESP (68)
1st round Mandy Minella LUX (159) | 6-1 6-4
2nd round Eva Birnerova CZE (152) | 6-2 6-2
Quarters Beatriz Garcia-Vidagany ESP (118) | 6-4 6-3
Semis Petra Martic CRO (89) | Walkover
Final Mathilde Johansson FRA (110) | 2-6 6-3 6-2
Average Opponent Rank 134.75

Dubai
#1 Caroline Wozniacki DEN (2)
1st round Bye
2nd round Anna Chakvetadze RUS (39) | 6-1 3-5 Ret.
3rd round Ayumi Morita JPN (82) | 6-1 6-0
Quarters #9 Shahar Peer ISR (11) | 6-2 6-4
Semis #6 Jelena Jankovic SRB (18) | 7-5 6-3
Final #16 Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS (14) | 6-1 6-3
Average Opponent Rank 48.4

Memphis
Magdalena Rybarikova SVK (95)
1st round #8 Vania King USA (65) | 6-1 3-6 7-6(9)
2nd round Anne Keothavong GBR (120) | 6-4 3-6 6-1
Quarters Alexa Glatch USA (212) | 6-3 6-2
Semis Lucie Hradecka CZE (81) | 6-2 4-6 6-4
Final #6 Rebecca Marino CAN (86) | 6-2 0-0 Ret.
Average Opponent Rank 112.8

Lourdes Dominguez-Lino won a weak event in Bogota, as she did not play against a single top 100 opponent en route to the title. She was helped by the seeds getting crushed, with just two getting out of the second round.

Caroline Wozniacki's ascent to the #2 spot in the world came after an excellent win in Dubai that saw her not drop a set, and take three top 20 wins in the last three matches.

Memphis saw a win for Magdalena Rybarikova, though she had a fairly easy path there, with no top 50 opponents. she was pushed to a third set tiebreaker by Vania King in the opening round, and needed two more three set matches, though she benifited from a retirement in the final.

ITF events:

25K
Mallorca: #3 Iryna Kuryanovich BLR (179) d. Sofiya Kovalets UKR (253)
Surprise: Monica Puig PUR (n/a) d. #5 Lenka Wienerova SVK (295)

10K
Albufeira: Lesley Kerkhove NED (412)
Buenos Aires: Veronica Cepede Royg PAR (374)
Leimen: Gioia Barbieri ITA (397)
Aurangabad: Vlada Ekshibarova UZB (357)
Antalya: Christina Shakovets GER (n/a)

Riser of the Week (top 100):
Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS (14), Up 6
Kuznetsova had a strong run in Dubai to get back into the top 15, as she saw off three top 20 opponents in Francesca Schiavone (7), Flavia Pennetta (8) and Agnieszka Radwanska (13) before falling to Wozniacki in the final.

Riser of the Week (other):
Sofiya Kovalets UKR (253), Up 54
The 16-year-old Kovalets has had some strong results on clay at the ITF level, and this week made the finals of an event in Mallorca, getting wins over Anna Floris (284) and Estrella Cabeza-Candela (249).

Dropper of the Week (top 100):
Victoria Azarenka BLR (17), Down 4
Azarenka was the finalist in Dubai last year, beating Agnieszka Radwanska (13) and Vera Zvonareva (5) before losing to Venus Williams (3). This year, she got just one win in the event, falling in the second against Flavia Pennetta (8).

Dropper of the Week (other):
Mariana Duque-Marino COL (107), Down 22
Tanasugarn was a finalist in Pattaya last year, getting some solid wins over Alla Kudryavtseva (72) and Anna Chakvetadze (41), among others. This year, she lost in the first round to Ayumi Morita (90), sending her out of the top 20.

1 (1). Kim Clijsters BEL - 844.7
Last week: None

2 (3). Caroline Wozniacki DEN - 815.3
Last week: Dubai W

3 (2). Venus Williams USA - 810.5
Last week: None

4 (4). Justine Henin BEL - 809.0
Last week: None

5 (5). Vera Zvonareva RUS - 807.0
Last week: Dubai R16 (l. Kleybanova)

6 (6). Samantha Stosur AUS - 793.1
Last week: Dubai QF (l. Jankovic)

7 (9). Francesca Schiavone ITA - 782.4
Last week: Dubai R16 (l. Kuznetsova)

8 (11). Flavia Pennetta ITA - 780.3
Last week: Dubai SF (l. Kuznetsova)

9 (7). Na Li CHN - 780.5
Last week: Dubai R32 (l. Wickmayer)

10 (15). Elena Dementieva RUS - 779.6
Last week: None

11 (10). Shahar Peer ISR - 778.6
Last week: Dubai QF (l. Wozniacki)

12 (8). Maria Sharapova RUS - 778.3
Last week: None

13 (12). Agnieszka Radwanska POL - 777.8
Last week: Dubai QF (l. Kuznetsova)

14 (20). Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS - 777.5
Last week: Dubai F (l. Wozniacki)

15 (14). Petra Kvitova CZE - 775.9
Last week: Dubai R64 (l. Morita)

16 (16). Kaia Kanepi EST - 775.4
Last week: Dubai R16 (l. Jankovic)

17 (13). Victoria Azarenka BLR - 774.9
Last week: Dubai R16 (l. Pennetta)

18 (19). Jelena Jankovic SRB - 772.6
Last week: Dubai SF (l. Wozniacki)

19 (17). Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS - 769.8
Last week: Dubai R64 (Q) (l. Kleybanova)

20 (18). Ana Ivanovic SRB - 767.9
Last week: Dubai R64 (l. Schnyder)

21 (21). Andrea Petkovic GER - 766.3
Last week: Dubai R32 (l. Kanepi)

22 (22). Shuai Peng CHN - 765.0
Last week: Dubai R32 (Q) (l. Azarenka)

23 (23). Yanina Wickmayer BEL - 764.9
Last week: Dubai R16 (l. Peer)

24 (24). Nadia Petrova RUS - 763.8
Last week: None

25 (25). Alisa Kleybanova RUS - 763.6
Last week: Dubai QF (l. Pennetta)

In: None
Out: None

February 21st Rankings

2011-03-02T11:18:00.000-08:00

Just one top 10 change, as Memphis winner Andy Roddick moves up two places to 8th, switching spots with David Nalbandian, now 10th.

Winners:
Buenos Aires
#1 Nicolas Almagro ESP (15)
1st round Pablo Galdon ARG (328) | 6-1 6-2
2nd round Leonardo Mayer ARG (81) | 6-7(3) 6-1 6-3
Quarters Jose Acasuso ARG (n/a) | 7-5 6-3
Semis #6 Tommy Robredo ESP (30) | 7-5 6-1
Final #8 Juan Ignacio Chela ARG (35) | 6-3 3-6 6-4
Average Opponent Rank 118.5

Marseille
#1 Robin Soderling SWE (4)
1st round Bye
2nd round Nicolas Mahut FRA (74) | 7-6(8) 7-6(5)
Quarters #8 Michael Llodra FRA (26) | 6-1 6-4
Semis Dmitry Tursunov RUS (66) | 7-5 6-1
Final Marin Cilic CRO (24) | 6-7(8) 6-3 6-3
Average Opponent 47.5

Memphis
Andy Roddick USA (8)
1st round Richard Berankis LTU (52) | 4-6 6-2 6-3
2nd round Janko Tipsarevic SRB (42) | 6-1 7-6(8)
Quarters Lleyton Hewitt AUS (23) | 4-6 6-3 6-4
Semis Juan Martin del Potro ARG (n/a) | 6-3 6-4
Final Milos Raonic CAN (70) | 7-6(7) 6-7(11) 7-5
Average Opponent 46.8

Almagro's second straight title saw him get some fairly easy matches in the first few rounds, but then saw him beat Robredo fairly easily, then take out Chela in three sets, as he continues one of the stronger early season runs.

Robin Soderling was another player who kept his roll going, as he went to a second straight title in Marseille. He was fortunate to see al, the top seeded players lose before facing him, but still needed to see off a good challenge from Marin Cilic in the final.

One of the matches of the season took place in Memphis, where the final saw a great win for Andy Roddick over the rising star, Milos Raonic. Roddick didn't face a seeded opponent en route to the final, but it was still a tough road, with young talents Raonic and Berankis, the veteran Hewitt, and a returning del Potro.

Challengers:
Meknes: #4 Jaroslav Pospisil CZE (107) d. Guillermo Olaso ESP (290)

Futures:
Spain F6: Pedro Clar-Rossello ESP (315)
Croatia F1: Marcel Zimmermann GER (230)
Turkey F5: Cedrik-Marcel Stebe GER (274)

Riser of the Week (top 100):
Milos Raonic CAN (70), Up 16
Raonic earns this honour for the second straight week after making the final in Memphis. He beat Fernando Verdasco (17) for the second time, as well as beating Radek Stepanek (43) and Mardy Fish (13), before falling to Roddick.

Riser of the Week (other):
Marcel Zimmermann GER (230), Up 39
The 26-year-old German won a futures title in Croatia, with his best wins coming in the last couple of matches, over Timo Nieminen (357) and Mirza Basic (317). The victory lifted him into the top 250.

Dropper of the Week (top 100):
Juan Carlos Ferrero ESP (25), Down 6
Ferrero, who has not played since the US Open, was on a huge hot streak at this point last year, having won the event in Buenos Aires, beating Juan Monaco (54) and David Ferrer (6) along the way. Without that result, he comes very close to falling out of the top 25.

Dropper of the Week:
Stephane Robert FRA (160), Down 37
Robert won a challenger this week last year, featuring a big final win over Alexandr Dolgopolov (31). He was inactive this week, sending him out of the top 150.

1 (1). Rafael Nadal ESP - 837.5
Last week: None

2 (2). Roger Federer SUI - 821.8
Last week: None

3 (3). Novak Djokovic SRB - 816.7
Last week: None

4 (4). Robin Soderling SWE - 802.8
Last week: Marseille W

5 (5). Andy Murray GBR - 797.1
Last week: None

6 (6). David Ferrer ESP - 792.8
Last week: None

7 (7). Stanislas Wawrinka SUI - 786.0
Last week: Buenos Aires SF (l. Chela)

8 (10). Andy Roddick USA - 784.5
Last week: Memphis W

9 (9). Tomas Berdych CZE - 782.4
Last week: Marseille QF (l. Cilic)

10 (8). David Nalbandian ARG - 779.9
Last week: Buenos Aires QF (l. Robredo)

11 (11). Jurgen Melzer AUT - 773.8
Last week: Marseille QF (l. Tursunov)

12 (12). Gael Monfils FRA - 773.7
Last week: None

13 (14). Mardy Fish USA - 773.0
Last week: Memphis SF (l. Fish)

14 (13). Jo-Wilfried Tsonga FRA - 771.7
Last week: Marseille QF (l. Youzhny)

15 (17). Nicolas Almagro ESP - 770.4
Last week: Buenos Aires W

16 (16). Mikhail Youzhny RUS - 768.9
Last week: Marseille SF (l. Cilic)

17 (15). Fernando Verdasco ESP - 768.3
Last week: None

18 (18). Viktor Troicki SRB - 755.5
Last week: None

19 (21). Gilles Simon FRA - 755.0
Last week: Marseille R16 (l. Youzhny)

20 (26). Philipp Kohlschreiber GER - 752.2
Last week: None

21 (24). Richard Gasquet FRA - 752.0
Last week: None

22 (20). Ivan Ljubicic CRO - 751.7
Last week: Marseille R16 (l. Tursunov)

23 (25). Lleyton Hewitt AUS - 751.1
Last week: Memphis QF (l. Roddick)

24 (28). Marin Cilic CRO - 748.9
Last week: Marseille F (l. Soderling)

25 (19). Juan Carlos Ferrero ESP - 747.5
Last week: None

In: Philipp Kohlschreiber, Marin Cilic
Out: Ernests Gulbis, Michael Llodra

February 14th - Junior Rankings

2011-02-18T18:33:00.001-08:00

ATP U20 - The rankings for all players under 20 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Grigor Dimitrov BUL (19.7) - #62, +4
Last week: Rotterdam R32

2 (2). Ryan Harrison USA (18.7) - #99, +3
Last week: None

3 (3). Bernard Tomic AUS (18.3) - #109, +8
Last week: Caloundra CH F

4 (5). Filip Krajinovic SRB (18.9) - #219, +7
Last week: None

5 (4). Andrey Kuznetsov RUS (19.9) - #226, -16
Last week: Spain F5 FU R16

6 (6). Facundo Arguello ARG (18.5) - #266, +35
Last week: None

7 (7). Pablo Carreno-Busta ESP (19.6) - #284, +18
Last week: Spain F5 FU W

8 (8). Di Wu CHN (19.4) - #317, +17
Last week: Caloundra R32 (Q)

9 (10). Tsung-Hua Yang TPE (19.8) - #322, +17
Last week: Caloundra CH R16

10 (9). Laurynas Grigelis LTU (19.5) - #342, -6
Last week: Bergamo CH R32

ATP U18 - The rankings for all players under 18 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Jason Kubler AUS (17.7) - #441, -2
Last week: None

2 (2). Suk-Young Jeong KOR (17.8) - #626, +2
Last week: None

3 (3). Robert Rumler CZE (17.2) - #682, +6
Last week: None

4 (4). Juan Ignacio Londero ARG (17.5) - #760, -6
Last week: Colombia F2 FU R32

ITF Juniors - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Jiri Vesely CZE (17.5)
2 (2). Roberto Carballes Baena ESP (17.8)
3 (3). Andres Artundeo Martinavarr ESP (17.4)
4 (4). Oliver Golding GBR (17.3)
5 (5). Joris De Loore BEL (17.8)
6 (6). Jannick Lupescu NED (17.5)
7 (7). Mathias Bourgue FRA (17.0)
8 (8). Mate Delic CRO (17.7)
9 (9). George Morgan GBR (18.0)
10 (10). Luke Saville AUS (17.0)

ITF Juniors U17 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Coppejeans ages out, replaced by another Belgian, Cagnina.

1 (1). Alexios Halebian USA (16.6) - #29, 0
2 (2). Miki Jankovic SRB (16.3) - #40, +1
3 (3). Thiago Moura Monteiro BRA (16.7) - #42, 0
4 (4). Lucas Pouille FRA (16.9) - #46, -1
5 (5). Gregoire Barrere FRA (16.9) - #49, -2
6 (6). Jae Hwan Kim KOR (16.3) - #53, 0
7 (8). Adam Pavlasek CZE (16.3) - #67, 0
8 (7). Julien Cagnina BEL (16.8) - #70, +20
9 (9). Daniel Masur GER (16.2) - #83, -5
10 (10). Enzo Couacaud FRA (15.9) - #84, +1

ITF Juniors U16 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Enzo Couacaud FRA (15.9) - #84, +1
2 (2). Gianlugi Quinzi (15.0) - #111, 0
3 (3). Marek Routa CZE (15.9) - #118, +1
4 (5). Nikola Milojevic SRB (15.6) - #128, +4
5 (4). Frederico Ferreira Silva POR (15.9) - #129, 0
6 (6). Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul THA (15.8) - #173, +2
7 (8). Albert Alcaraz Ivorra ESP (15.7) - #188, +5
8 (9). Alxandre Favrot FRA (15.9) - #208, +3
9 (7). Yoshihito Nishioka JPN (15.3) - #214, -22
10 (10). Chi-Shan Jao TPE (15.7) - #220, -1

February 14th Rankings - Women

2011-02-18T17:41:00.000-08:00

A few top ten changes; the retired Elena Dementieva fell six places, to 15th, Henin and Zvonareva flipped 4th and 5th, Li and Sharapova swapped 7th and 8th, and Schiavone and Peer move up, with the Israeli replacing Dementieva in the top 10.

Winners:

Paris
#4 Petra Kvitova CZE (14)
1st round Vesna Manasieva RUS (96) | 7-5 6-4
2nd round Barbora Zahlavova Strycova CZE (64) | 6-4 6-7(6) 7-6(9)
Quarters #7 Yanina Wickmayer BEL (23) | 5-7 6-3 7-6(3)
Semis Bethanie Mattek-Sands USA (33) | 6-2 6-0
Final #1 Kim Clijsters BEL (1) | 6-4 6-3
Average Opponent Rank 43.4

Pattaya
#4 Daniela Hantuchova SVK (27)
1st round Kurumi Nara JPN (101) | 6-2 6-1
2nd round Kimiko Date-Krumm JPN (50) | 7-6(3) 6-3
Quarters Akgul Amanmuradova UZB (92) | 6-2 6-0
Semis #1 Vera Zvonareva RUS (5) | 7-6(3) 6-4
Final #8 Sara Errani ITA (39) | 6-0 6-2
Average Opponent Rank 48.4

Petra Kvitova had one of the most surprising results of the week in Paris, as she struggled through to the final, needing third set tiebreaks against Zahlavova Strycova and Wickmayer, but then handily beat the world #1 in the final, a huge result for her that indicates she may be preparing for a big rise.

In the smaller event of the week, Pattaya, Daniela Hantuchova won her first title in almost four years, with the highlight of her week being a win against world #5 Vera Zvonareva.

ITF events:

100K
Cali: Irina-Camelia Begu ROU (174) d. #6 Laura Pous-Tio ESP (93)
Midland: Lucie Hradecka CZE (86) d. Irina Falconi USA (95)

25K
Rancho Mirage: Ashley Weinhold USA (250) d. #4 Kristyna Pliskova CZE (205)
Stockholm: Kristina Mladenovic FRA (161) d. #2 Arantxa Rus NED (104)

10K
Antalya: Carolina Pillot ITA (435)
Buenos Aires: Catalina Pella ARG (477)
Mallorca: Lara Arruabarrena-Vecino ESP (172)
Vale Do Lobo: Alison van Uytvanck BEL (n/a)

Riser of the Week (top 100):
Jelena Dokic AUS (80), Up 13
Dokic had a decent result in Paris that gave her a small rise, on a week when not many players improved much. She beat Lucie Safarova (42) and Nadia Petrova (24), before getting badly beaten by Clijsters.

Riser of the Week (other):
Kristina Mladenovic FRA (161), Up 56
The 17-year-old Mladenovic, a junior champion at Roland Garros and runnerup at Wimbledon, has really pressed on with her senior-level career. She entered the rankings just last week, and already makes a big move up, as she won a second consecutive challenger, beating Arantxa Rus (104) in the final to extend her winning streak to 10 matches.

Dropper of the Week (top 100):
Lucie Safarova CZE (42), Down 9
Safarova lost first round to the riser of the week, Dokic, which did some major damage to her ranking, as she dropped her final from Paris last season, which included wins over Schiavone (9), Peer (10) and Pennetta (11).

Dropper of the Week (other):
Tamarine Tanasugarn THA (107), Down 22
Tanasugarn was a finalist in Pattaya last year, getting some solid wins over Alla Kudryavtseva (72) and Anna Chakvetadze (41), among others. This year, she lost in the first round to Ayumi Morita (90), sending her out of the top 20.

1 (1). Kim Clijsters BEL - 845.6
Last week: Paris F (l. Kvitova)

2 (2). Venus Williams USA - 814.7
Last week: None

3 (3). Caroline Wozniacki DEN - 812.6
Last week: None

4 (5). Justine Henin BEL - 808.9
Last week: None

5 (4). Vera Zvonareva RUS - 808.3
Last week: Pattaya SF (l. Hantuchova)

6 (6). Samantha Stosur AUS - 790.9
Last week: None

7 (8). Na Li CHN - 783.8
Last week: None

8 (7). Maria Sharapova RUS - 783.6
Last week: None

9 (10). Francesca Schiavone ITA - 782.1
Last week: None

10 (12). Shahar Peer ISR - 781.1
Last week: None

11 (14). Flavia Pennetta ITA - 780.3
Last week: None

12 (11). Agnieszka Radwanska POL - 779.6
Last week: None

13 (13). Victoria Azarenka BLR - 779.3
Last week: None

14 (15). Petra Kvitova CZE - 779.1
Last week: Paris W

15 (9). Elena Dementieva RUS - 778.1
Last week: None

16 (18). Kaia Kanepi EST - 774.3
Last week: Paris SF (l. Clijsters)

17 (17). Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS - 772.5
Last week: None

18 (16). Ana Ivanovic SRB - 770.9
Last week: Pattaya QF (l. Vinci)

19 (19). Jelena Jankovic SRB - 770.1
Last week: None

20 (20). Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS - 769.7
Last week: None

21 (21). Andrea Petkovic GER - 768.0
Last week: Paris QF (l. Mattek-Sands)

22 (22). Shuai Peng CHN - 764.7
Last week: Pattaya QF (l. Zvonareva)

23 (24). Yanina Wickmayer BEL - 763.4
Last week: Paris QF (l. Kvitova)

24 (23). Nadia Petrova RUS - 761.3
Last week: Paris R16 (l. Dokic)

25 (27). Alisa Kleybanova RUS - 757.5
Last week: None

In: Alisa Kleybanova
Out: Dominika Cibulkova

February 14th Rankings

2011-02-17T18:23:00.000-08:00

A couple of top 10 changes, but the most notable one came at #4, where Robin Soderling, Rotterdam winner, leaped past Andy Murray, who lost in the first round.

Winners:
Costa do Sauipe
#1 Nicolas Almagro ESP (17)
1st round Bye
2nd round Joao Souza BRA (214) | 6-2 6-2
Quarters Rui Machado POR (97) | 6-2 6-4
Semis #5 Juan Ignacio Chela ARG (37) | 1-6 6-2 6-4
Final #4 Alexandr Dolgopolov UKR (30) | 6-3 7-6(3)
Average Opponent Rank 94.5

Rotterdam
#1 Robin Soderling SWE (4)
1st round Robin Haase NED (45) | 6-3 6-2
2nd round Philipp Kohlschreiber GER (26) | 6-3 5-7 7-6(7)
Quarters #6 Mikhail Youzhny RUS (16) | 6-4 7-6(5)
Semis Viktor Troicki SRB (18) | 7-5 6-4
Final #8 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga FRA (13) | 6-3 3-6 6-3
Average Opponent 23.6

San Jose
Milos Raonic CAN (86)
1st round #4 Xavier Malisse BEL (47) | 6-3 6-4
2nd round James Blake USA (71) | 6-2 7-6(4)
Quarters Richard Berankis LTU (53) | 6-4 7-6(2)
Semis #2 Gael Monfils FRA (12) | Walkover
Final #1 Fernando Verdasco ESP (15) | 7-6(6) 7-6(5)
Average Opponent 46.5

Almagro had a strong week as the #1 seed in Brazil, getting two good wins on the weekend, over Chela and the young talent Dolgopolov. Still, this was a fairly weak 28-field event, and so Almagro won't get a huge benifit from winning it.

Robin Soderling secured the #4 ranking both in my rankings and the ATP's with his win in Rotterdam. He needed to play a tight third set TB with Philipp Kohlschreiber in the second round, before getting three top 20 wins, over Youzhny, Troicki and Tsonga.

Milos Raonic, the young Canadian, continued his spectacular start to 2011, winning his first career title in San Jose. He beat some experienced hands in Malisse and Blake, along with another prospect in Berankis, and while he was fortunate to get a walkover against Monfils, he was very impressive in beating Verdasco in the final, including winning the first tiebreak from 2-6 down.

Challengers:
Bergamo: #1 Andreas Seppi ITA (54) d. #4 Gilles Muller LUX (93)
Caloundra: #5 Grega Zemlja SLO (153) d. #7 Bernard Tomic AUS (109)
Quimper: #8 David Guez FRA (198) d. Kenny De Scheeper FRA (292)

Futures:
Colombia F2: Gastao Elias POR (396)
France F3: Maxime Authom BEL (306)
Panama F1: Victor Estrella DOM (290)
Spain F5: Pablo Carreno-Busta ESP (284)
Turkey F4: Michael Linzer AUT (392)

Riser of the Week (top 100):
Milos Raonic CAN (86), Up 15
The San Jose champion moved into the top 100, completing a meteoric rise of almost a hundred places in just a single month. He earned his second top 10 win of the year in the final against Verdasco, and looks like a player to watch over the early hardcourt season.

Riser of the Week (other):
David Guez FRA (198), Up 34
Guez had a bit of a statistical oddity in his win at the Quimper challenger, in that his five match wins all came against fellow Frenchmen. He had some solid victories, beating Marc Gicquel (206) and Olivier Patience (163) along the way.

Dropper of the Week (top 100):
Sam Querrey USA (32), Down 4
Querrey made the semifinals in San Jose last year, losing to Andy Roddick (10), and while he didn't have any great wins, it was better than his showing last year, when he lost in straight sets to Lukas Lacko (87).

Dropper of the Week:
Karol Beck SVK (133), Down 24
The Slovak was on a great run at this time last year, as he was in the midst of a 14-match winning streak that including winning the Bergamo challenger. This week, he returned to Bergamo, but lost in straight sets to Jurgen Zopp (165) in the first round.

1 (1). Rafael Nadal ESP - 837.0
Last week: None

2 (2). Roger Federer SUI - 821.5
Last week: None

3 (3). Novak Djokovic SRB - 816.7
Last week: None

4 (5). Robin Soderling SWE - 799.3
Last week: Rotterdam W

5 (4). Andy Murray GBR - 796.7
Last week: Rotterdam R32 (l. Baghdatis)

6 (6). David Ferrer ESP - 792.0
Last week: Rotterdam R32 (l. Nieminen)

7 (7). Stanislas Wawrinka SUI - 786.6
Last week: None

8 (8). David Nalbandian ARG - 782.9
Last week: None

9 (10). Tomas Berdych CZE - 781.9
Last week: Rotterdam QF (w/o v. Tsonga)

10 (9). Andy Roddick USA - 779.6
Last week: None

11 (11). Jurgen Melzer AUT - 774.9
Last week: Rotterdam R16 (l. Cilic)

12 (13). Gael Monfils FRA - 772.5
Last week: San Jose SF (w/o v. Raonic)

13 (16). Jo-Wilfried Tsonga FRA - 771.0
Last week: Rotterdam F (l. Soderling)

14 (14). Mardy Fish USA - 770.7
Last week: None

15 (12). Fernando Verdasco ESP - 768.4
Last week: San Jose F (l. Raonic)

16 (15). Mikhail Youzhny RUS - 767.5
Last week: Rotterdam QF (l. Soderling)

17 (17). Nicolas Almagro ESP - 766.8
Last week: Costa do Saupie W

18 (20). Viktor Troicki SRB - 754.6
Last week: Rotterdam SF (l. Soderling)

19 (18). Juan Carlos Ferrero ESP - 754.4
Last week: None

20 (23). Ivan Ljubicic CRO - 752.9
Last week: Rotterdam SF (l. Tsonga)

21 (19). Gilles Simon FRA - 752.5
Last week: Rotterdam R32 (l. Paire)

22 (24). Ernests Gulbis LAT - 750.6
Last week: None

23 (26). Michael Llodra FRA - 750.1
Last week: Rotterdam R16 (l. Tsonga)

24 (22). Richard Gasquet FRA - 750.1
Last week: None

25 (21). Lleyton Hewitt AUS - 749.4
Last week: San Jose QF (l. del Potro)

In: Michael Llodra
Out: Philipp Kohlschreiber

February 7th - Junior Rankings

2011-02-09T16:18:00.000-08:00

ATP U20 - The rankings for all players under 20 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Grigor Dimitrov BUL (19.7) - #66, +3
Last week: None

2 (3). Ryan Harrison USA (18.7) - #102, +7
Last week: None

3 (2). Bernard Tomic AUS (18.3) - #117, -19
Last week: Burnie CH SF

4 (4). Andrey Kuznetsov RUS (19.9) - #210, +10
Last week: None

5 (5). Filip Krajinovic SRB (18.9) - #226, +3
Last week: None

6 (7). Facundo Arguello ARG (18.5) - #301, +5
Last week: None

7 (6). Pablo Carreno-Busta ESP (19.5) - #302, -9
Last week: None

8 (8). Di Wu CHN (19.4) - #334, -16
Last week: Burnie CH QR3

9 (10). Laurynas Grigelis LTU (19.4) - #336, +21
Last week: Courmayeur CH QF

10 (9). Tsung-Hua Yang TPE (19.8) - #339, +10
Last week: Burnie CH R32

ATP U18 - The rankings for all players under 18 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Jason Kubler AUS (17.7) - #439, -4
Last week: None

2 (2). Suk-Young Jeong KOR (17.8) - #628, -13
Last week: USA F4 FU R16

3 (3). Robert Rumler CZE (17.1) - #688, 0
Last week: None

4 (4). Juan Ignacio Londero ARG (17.4) - #754, 0
Last week: El Salvador F1 FU R16

ITF Juniors - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Jiri Vesely CZE (17.5)
2 (2). Roberto Carballes Baena ESP (17.8)
3 (3). Andres Artundeo Martinavarr ESP (17.3)
4 (4). Oliver Golding GBR (17.3)
5 (5). Joris De Loore BEL (17.7)
6 (6). Jannick Lupescu NED (17.4)
7 (7). Mathias Bourgue FRA (17.0)
8 (8). Mate Delic CRO (17.7)
9 (9). George Morgan GBR (17.9)
10 (10). Luke Saville AUS (16.9)

ITF Juniors U17 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Saville ages out from #1, allowing Halebian to take over.

1 (2). Alexios Halebian USA (16.6) - #29, +1
2 (3). Miki Jankovic SRB (16.3) - #41, -2
3 (4). Thiago Moura Monteiro BRA (16.6) - #42, -1
4 (5). Lucas Pouille FRA (16.9) - #45, -1
5 (6). Gregoire Barrere FRA (16.9) - #47, 0
6 (7). Jae Hwan Kim KOR (16.3) - #53, -1
7 (9). Kimmer Coppejans BEL (16.9) - #66, +8
8 (8). Adam Pavlasek CZE (16.3) - #67, +5
9 (10). Daniel Masur GER (16.2) - #78, -2
10 (-). Enzo Couacaud FRA (15.9) - #85, +1

ITF Juniors U16 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Enzo Couacaud FRA (15.9) - #85, +1
2 (2). Gianlugi Quinzi (15.0) - #111, -2
3 (3). Marek Routa CZE (15.9) - #119, -2
4 (5). Frederico Ferreira Silva POR (15.8) - #129, +1
5 (4). Nikola Milojevic SRB (15.6) - #132, -3
6 (7). Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul THA (15.8) - #175, +5
7 (6). Yoshihito Nishioka JPN (15.3) - #192, -29
8 (8). Albert Alcaraz Ivorra ESP (15.7) - #193, -1
9 (10). Alxandre Favrot FRA (15.9) - #211, +10
10 (9). Chi-Shan Jao TPE (15.6) - #219, -3

February 7th Rankings - Women

2011-02-09T15:14:00.000-08:00

No changes in the top 10, as the ladies had the week off after the Australian Open, though many were in action in Fed Cup.

Winners:

ITF events:

25K
Burnie: Eugenie Bouchard CAN (n/a) d. Saisai Zheng CHN (168)
Rabat: #1 Nina Bratchikova RUS (204) d. Maria Joao Koehler POR (258)
Rancho Santa Fe: #4 Michelle Larcher de Brito POR (152) d. #3 Madison Brengle USA (209)
Sutton: Kristina Mladenovic FRA (217) d. #4 Mona Barthel GER (163)

10K
Coimbra: Rocio de la Torre-Sanchez ESP (442)
Mallorca: Ekaterine Gorgodze GEO (420)

Riser of the Week (top 100):
Kateryna Bondarenko UKR (55), Up 16
Bondarenko had a big shift in fortunes, as last year she struggled at Fed Cup Group 1, where she lost twice against the Italians. This year, she was strong in World Group 2, as she pulled Ukraine to a win over Sweden by beating Johanna Larsson (62) and Sofia Arvidsson (68), as well as teaming to get the doubles win.

Riser of the Week (other):
Michelle Larcher de Brito POR (148), Up 32
The young Portuguese seemed like she might be placed for a breakthrough some time ago, but didn't have a good 2010. She did well in California this week, though, getting a challenger level title. Along the way she beat Madison Brengle (209) and Tetiana Luzhanska (251), among others.

Dropper of the Week (top 100):
Jelena Jankovic SRB (19), Down 4
Last year, Jankovic played in Serbia's Fed Cup tie against Russia, winning both her singles matches, including over Svetlana Kuznetsova (20). This year, she opted not to play, and takes a drop from losing those wins.

Dropper of the Week (other):
Ye-Ra Lee KOR (274), Down 38
Lee, who was another Fed Cup player, took two losses in the Asian Group 1 round robin against some low ranked opposition, which dropped her out of the top 250.

1 (1). Kim Clijsters BEL - 850.3
Last week: Fed Cup v. USA (2-0)

2 (2). Venus Williams USA - 816.0
Last week: None

3 (3). Caroline Wozniacki DEN - 814.2
Last week: Fed Cup Euro/Afr Group 1 (3-0)

4 (4). Vera Zvonareva RUS - 812.2
Last week: None

5 (5). Justine Henin BEL - 811.0
Last week: None

6 (6). Samantha Stosur AUS - 792.3
Last week: Fed Cup v. ITA (0-2)

7 (7). Maria Sharapova RUS - 785.5
Last week: Fed Cup v. FRA (0-1)

8 (8). Na Li CHN - 785.4
Last week: None

9 (9). Elena Dementieva RUS - 784.6
Last week: None

10 (10). Francesca Schiavone ITA - 782.4
Last week: Fed Cup v. AUS (1-1)

11 (13). Agnieszka Radwanska POL - 781.7
Last week: Fed Cup Euro/Afr Group 1 (3-1)

12 (11). Shahar Peer ISR - 781.6
Last week: Fed Cup Euro/Afr Group 1 (3-1)

13 (14). Victoria Azarenka BLR - 781.2
Last week: Fed Cup Euro/Afr Group 1 (4-0)

14 (12). Flavia Pennetta ITA - 780.8
Last week: Fed Cup v. AUS (2-0)

15 (19). Petra Kvitova CZE - 774.8
Last week: Fed Cup v. SVK (2-0)

16 (20). Ana Ivanovic SRB - 774.7
Last week: None

17 (17). Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS - 773.4
Last week: Fed Cup v. FRA (1-0)

18 (16). Kaia Kanepi EST - 772.8
Last week: Fed Cup v. ESP (1-1)

19 (15). Jelena Jankovic SRB - 771.2
Last week: None

20 (18). Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS - 771.0
Last week: Fed Cup v. FRA (1-1)

21 (22). Andrea Petkovic GER - 770.5
Last week: Fed Cup v. GER (2-0)

22 (21). Shuai Peng CHN - 765.8
Last week: None

23 (23). Nadia Petrova RUS - 764.8
Last week: None

24 (24). Yanina Wickmayer BEL - 761.6
Last week: Fed Cup v. USA (2-0)

25 (25). Dominika Cibulkova SVK - 759.0
Last week: Fed Cup v. CZE (0-1)

In: None
Out: None

February 7th Rankings

2011-02-09T15:13:00.000-08:00

Not many top players in action this week, as they recover from the year's first slam. One of the few playing was David Nalbandian, whose loss in Santiago dropped one spot, to 8th, with Wawrinka moving above him into 7th.

Winners:
Johannesburg
#4 Kevin Anderson RSA (48)
1st round Stephane Bohli SUI (114) | 4-6 6-4 6-2
2nd round Dudi Sela ISR (68) | 6-2 6-4
Quarters Karol Beck SVK (109) | 6-3 6-1
Semis #6 Adrian Mannarino FRA (67) | 6-7(3) 6-0 6-4
Final Somdev Devvarman IND (153) | 4-6 6-3 6-2
Average Opponent Rank 102.2

Santiago
#6 Tommy Robredo ESP (35)
1st round Frederico Gil POR (76) | 2-6 6-3 6-4
2nd round Ricardo Mello BRA (105) | 6-0 7-6(7)
Quarters Maximo Gonzalez ARG (85) | 6-3 6-1
Semis #7 Fabio Fognini ITA (64) | 4-6 6-2 6-3
Final #8 Santiago Giraldo COL (50) | 6-2 2-6 7-6(5)
Average Opponent 76.0

Zagreb
Ivan Dodig CRO (74)
1st round #6 Marcel Granollers ESP (65) | 6-3 6-2
2nd round Illya Marchenko UKR (96) | 6-2 6-3
Quarters #2 Ivan Ljubicic CRO (23) | 6-4 6-4
Semis #3 Guillermo Garcia-Lopez ESP (31) | 4-6 7-6(5) 6-4
Final #8 Michael Berrer GER (84) | 6-3 6-4
Average Opponent 59.8

South African tennis fans can celebrate a great home win this week, as Kevin Anderson broke a six year drought for his country in ATP tournaments. The field was quite weak, but he overcame one of the tournament's hotter players, Mannarino, in the semifinals.

Robredo continued his strong 2011 by winning in Santiago, though the story of the week came in his semifinal match with Fognini, which ended in some very acrimonious circumstances, as Robredo refused to shake the Italian's fan. Still, Robredo's solid week, with several top 100 wins, was quite impressive.

The most unexpected winner of the week came in Zagreb, where Dodig, a 26-year-old journeyman, took the title. It was hardly an easy run, either, as he beat 5 top 100 players, including some solid opposition in Ljubicic and Garcia-Lopez.

Challengers:
Burnie: Flavio Cipolla ITA (223) d. Chris Guccione AUS (156) (walkover)
Courmayeur: #4 Nicolas Mahut FRA (71) d. #3 Gilles Miller LUX (90)
Kazan: Marius Copil ROU (243) d. #4 Andreas Beck GER (140)

Futures:
Germany F4: Ervin Eleskovic SWE (371)
El Salvador F1: Marcel Felder URU (363)
Colombia F1: Martin Alund ARG (267)
Spain F4: Guillermo Olaso ESP (326)
France F2: Arnau Brugues-Davi ESP (257)
Cambodia F2: Karan Rastogi IND (421)
USA F4: Wayne Odesnik USA (n/a)
Brazil F5: Andre Begemann GER (312)

Riser of the Week (top 100):
Ivan Dodig CRO (74), Up 16
Dodig got a short mention last week, as the only player to take a set from Djokovic in Melbourne, but it's a long way from that match to this, his first career ATP title at the age of 26. He moves well into the top 100, thanks to those nice wins over GGL and Ljubicic.

Riser of the Week (other):
Marius Copil ROU (243), Up 52
Copil, who turned 20 late last year, is a potential rising player, and has had a great start to 2011, making the final of a futures event in Germany, and then winning the challenger in Kazan. To take the title, he beat a host of German talent in Andreas Beck (140), Dominik Meffert (167) and Simon Stadler (234).

Dropper of the Week (top 100):
Feliciano Lopez ESP (55), Down 12
Lopez won the tournament in Johannesburg last year, beating Gael Monfils (13) along the way, but wasn't able to repeat his success this year, falling in the first round to Canadian Frank Dancevic (131). Without that win, Lopez was unable to hang in the top 50, taking a large fall.

Dropper of the Week:
Stephane Robert FRA (129), Down 34
Robert came from nowhere to crack the top 100 last season, with one of his biggest results coming in Joburg, where he beat David Ferrer (6) en route to the final, where he fell to Lopez. After that result, though, he never did anything of note at ATP level, and lost badly in the first round this week, against Izak van der Merwe (220).

1 (1). Rafael Nadal ESP - 837.2
Last week: None

2 (2). Roger Federer SUI - 821.2
Last week: None

3 (3). Novak Djokovic SRB - 814.6
Last week: None

4 (4). Andy Murray GBR - 798.3
Last week: None

5 (5). Robin Soderling SWE - 797.8
Last week: None

6 (6). David Ferrer ESP - 739.9
Last week: None

7 (8). Stanislas Wawrinka SUI - 786.5
Last week: None

8 (7). David Nalbandian ARG - 783.7
Last week: Santiago R16 (l. Zeballos)

9 (9). Andy Roddick USA - 780.4
Last week: None

10 (10). Tomas Berdych CZE - 780.4
Last week: None

11 (11). Jurgen Melzer AUT - 775.9
Last week: None

12 (12). Fernando Verdasco ESP - 772.7
Last week: None

13 (14). Gael Monfils FRA - 772.1
Last week: None

14 (13). Mardy Fish USA - 770.5
Last week: None

15 (15). Mikhail Youzhny RUS - 770.1
Last week: None

16 (16). Jo-Wilfried Tsonga FRA - 768.7
Last week: None

17 (17). Nicolas Almagro ESP - 764.7
Last week: None

18 (18). Juan Carlos Ferrero ESP - 757.4
Last week: None

19 (19). Gilles Simon FRA - 755.7
Last week: None

20 (22). Viktor Troicki SRB - 751.3
Last week: None

21 (21). Lleyton Hewitt AUS - 750.6
Last week: None

22 (20). Richard Gasquet FRA - 749.9
Last week: Zagreb QF (l. Berrer)

23 (26). Ivan Ljubicic CRO - 748.4
Last week: Zagreb QF (l. Dodig)

24 (24). Ernests Gulbis LAT - 748.3
Last week: None

25 (25). Philipp Kohlschreiber GER - 748.3
Last week: None

In: Ivan Ljubicic
Out: Marin Cilic

January 31st Junior Rankings

2011-02-02T17:26:00.000-08:00

ATP U20 - The rankings for all players under 20 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

A series of nice results, as Tomic won two rounds in Melbourne, Dimitrov won one, Harrison won a challenger and Carreno-Busta went 9-1 in two futures.

1 (1). Grigor Dimitrov BUL (19.7) - #69, +15
Last week: Australian Open R64

2 (3). Bernard Tomic AUS (18.2) - #98, +35
Last week: Australian Open R32

3 (2). Ryan Harrison USA (18.7) - #109, +15
Last week: Australian Open R128, Honolulu CH W

4 (4). Andrey Kuznetsov RUS (19.9) - #220, -2
Last week: Australian Open QR1

5 (5). Filip Krajinovic SRB (18.9) - #229, +9
Last week: None

6 (8). Pablo Carreno-Busta ESP (19.5) - #293, +32
Last week: Spain F2 FU W, Spain F3 FU F

7 (6). Facundo Arguello ARG (18.5) - #306, -1
Last week: None

8 (7). Di Wu CHN (19.3) - #318, -4
Last week: China F2 FU R32, Singapore CH QR3

9 (9). Tsung-Hua Yang TPE (19.8) - #349, -20
Last week: Singapore R32 (Q)

10 (10). Laurynas Grigelis LTU (19.4) - #357, -7
Last week: Britain F2 FU R32, Germany F3 FU R16

ATP U18 - The rankings for all players under 18 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Boluda and Fernandes age out.

1 (1). Jason Kubler AUS (17.7) - #435, +9
Last week: None

2 (3). Suk-Young Jeong KOR (17.8) - #615, +11
Last week: None

3 (5). Robert Rumler CZE (17.1) - #688, +3
Last week: Israel F2 FU R16, Israel F3 FU R16

4 (6). Juan Ignacio Londero ARG (17.4) - #754, +1
Last week: None

ITF Juniors - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Vesely, the Australian Open junior champ, moves into the #1 spot. Luke Saville, the AO finalist, enters the top 10.

1 (2). Jiri Vesely CZE (17.5)
2 (4). Roberto Carballes Baena ESP (17.8)
3 (7). Andres Artundeo Martinavarr ESP (17.3)
4 (6). Oliver Golding GBR (17.2)
5 (5). Joris De Loore BEL (17.7)
6 (8). Jannick Lupescu NED (17.4)
7 (10). Mathias Bourgue FRA (17.0)
8 (-). Mate Delic CRO (17.7)
9 (-). George Morgan GBR (17.9)
10 (-). Luke Saville AUS (16.9)

ITF Juniors U17 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Saville moves up to the #1 spot, while Bourgue, the former #1, ages out.

1 (6). Luke Saville AUS (16.9) - #22, +34
2 (2). Alexios Halebian USA (16.6) - #30, +3
3 (3). Miki Jankovic SRB (16.3) - #39, -1
4 (4). Thiago Moura Monteiro BRA (16.6) - #41, 0
5 (7). Lucas Pouille FRA (16.9) - #44, +14
6 (5). Gregoire Barrere FRA (16.9) - #47, +4
7 (8). Jae Hwan Kim KOR (16.3) - #52, +7
8 (-). Adam Pavlasek CZE (16.3) - #72, +21
9 (-). Kimmer Coppejans BEL (15.9) - #74, +15
10 (-). Daniel Masur GER (16.2) - #76, +27

ITF Juniors U16 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Bambridge ages out from 3rd, replaced by Routa.

1 (1). Enzo Couacaud FRA (15.9) - #86, -12
2 (2). Gianlugi Quinzi (14.9) - #109, +12
3 (-). Marek Routa CZE (15.9) - #117, n/a
4 (5). Nikola Milojevic SRB (15.6) - #129, +20
5 (4). Frederico Ferreira Silva POR (15.8) - #130, +17
6 (6). Yoshihito Nishioka JPN (15.3) - #163, +11
7 (7). Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul THA (15.8) - #180, +14
8 (8). Albert Alcaraz Ivorra ESP (15.7) - #192, +19
9 (10). Chi-Shan Jao TPE (15.6) - #216, +25
10 (9). Alxandre Favort FRA (15.9) - #221, +11

January 31st Rankings - Women

2011-02-02T13:08:00.000-08:00

Unlike the men, there are huge changes for the ladies. This starts at the top, as former #1 Serena Williams fell beneath the 25 match threshold for ranking, allowing the #2 and AO champ, Kim Clijsters, to move up. Another playing dropping back was Justine Henin, who was injured and forced to retire for the second time. She'll stay in my rankings for now, but falls to 5th. this allows a group of players to move up, as Venus Williams becomes 2nd, Caroline Wozniacki 3rd and Ver Zvoanreva 4th. Also moving up was Maria Sharapova, who got ahead of Na Li for 7th. Li made the final this year, but it wasn't enough of an improvement over last year's semi to help her raning. Francesca Schiavone, who gutted out a spectacular win over Svetlana Kuznetsova in the tournament's best match, moves up into 10th.

Winners:

Australian Open
#3 Kim Clijsters BEL (1)
1st round Dinara Safina RUS (62) | 6-0 6-0
2nd round Carla Suarez Navarro ESP (59) | 6-1 6-3
3rd round Alize Cornet FRA (80) | 7-6(3) 6-3
4th round Ekaterina Makarova RUS (35) | 7-6(3) 6-2
Quarters #12 Agnieszka Radwanska POL (13) | 6-3 7-6(4)
Semis #2 Vera Zvonareva RUS (4) | 6-3 6-3
Final #9 Na Li CHN (8) | 3-6 6-3 6-3
Average Opponent Rank 43.5

Clijsters was generally considered the favourite, and made the best of that position, winning seven matches with relatively little fuss. She didn't drop a set heading to the final, though she was forced to a few tiebreakers, and survived losing the first to Li to claim the title.

ITF events:

25K
Andrezieux-Boutheon: #2 Mona Barthel GER (168) d. Stephanie Vogt LIE (200)
Lutz: #2 Laura Siegemund GER (215) d. Jessica Pegula USA (n/a)
Muzaffarnagar: #2 Tadeja Majeric SLO (313) d. Saisai Zheng CHN (184)
Grenoble: Marta Domachowska POL (170) d. Naomi Broady GBR (316)

10K
Stuttgart-Stammheim: Jana Cepelova SVK (212)
Tallinn: Michaela Honcova SVK (281)
Wrexham: Anna Fitzpatrick GBR (369)
Bucaramanga: Aleksandrina Naydenova BUL (n/a)
Kaarst: Sarah Gronert GER (301)
Kolkata: Mari Tanaka JPN (477)
Tallinn: Anett Kontaveit EST (n/a)

Riser of the Week (top 100):
Agnieszka Radwanska POL (13), Up 7
At one point, Radwanska was questionable as to whether she would even play the Australian Open, and when she was down in the third set against Kimiko Date-Krumm (50) in the first round, it seemed like her ranking could be going the other way. But, she bounced back in that match, then beat Petra Martic (93), Simona Halep (53) and Shuai Peng (21) to make the quarterfinals, where she lost to the eventual champ, Clijsters.

Riser of the Week (other):
Jana Cepelova SVK (212), Up 57
Not yet 18 years old, young Cepelova could be a name to watch over the next few years. She didn't head down under, due to her low WTA ranking (outside the top 400), but she played at an ITF event in Stuttgart, where she won handily, getting wins over Michaela Pochabova (275) and Nina Zander (370)

Dropper of the Week (top 100):
Nadia Petrova RUS (23), Down 10
A couple of major contenders for this one, but Petrova comes up with the dubious honour, after dropping a great result from last year. Petrova made the quarters in Melbourne in 2010, picking up some big wins over Kim Clijsters (1) and Svetlana Kuznetsova (18). This year, she got a couple of wins, before falling to Ekaterina Makarova (35), 6-8 in the third.

Dropper of the Week (other):
Yvonne Meusburger AUT (141), Down 27
Meusburger, who is inactive so far in 2011, presumably due to injury, qualified for the main draw of last year's AO, and then won a round in the MD. Without those points, whe takes a small fall in the top 100.

1 (2). Kim Clijsters BEL - 848.1
Last week: Australian Open W

2 (4). Venus Williams USA - 814.0
Last week: Australian Open R32 (l. Petkovic)

3 (5). Caroline Wozniacki DEN - 812.8
Last week: Australian Open SF (l. Li)

4 (6). Vera Zvonareva RUS - 810.4
Last week: Australian Open SF (l. Clijsters)

5 (3). Justine Henin BEL - 810.0
Last week: Australian Open R32 (l. Kuznetsova)

6 (7). Samantha Stosur AUS - 794.8
Last week: Australian Open R32 (l. Kvitova)

7 (9). Maria Sharapova RUS - 786.5
Last week: Australian Open R16 (l. Petkovic)

8 (8). Na Li CHN - 783.0
Last week: Australian Open F (l. Clijsters)

9 (10). Elena Dementieva RUS - 783.0
Last week: None

10 (12). Francesca Schiavone ITA - 780.1
Last week: Australian Open QF (l. Wozniacki)

11 (11). Shahar Peer ISR - 778.1
Last week: Australian Open R32 (l. Pennetta)

12 (15). Flavia Pennetta ITA - 777.8
Last week: Australian Open R16 (l. Kvitova)

13 (20). Agnieszka Radwanska POL - 777.6
Last week: Australian Open QF (l. Clijsters)

14 (14). Victoria Azarenka BLR - 774.4
Last week: Australian Open R16 (l. Li)

15 (18). Jelena Jankovic SRB - 772.5
Last week: Australian Open R64 (l Peng)

16 (17). Kaia Kanepi EST - 772.2
Last week: Australian Open R64 (l. Goerges)

17 (16). Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS - 771.3
Last week: Australian Open R32 (l. Benesova)

18 (19). Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS - 770.9
Last week: Australian Open R16 (l. Schiavone)

19 (26). Petra Kvitova CZE - 768.7
Last week: Australian Open QF (l. Zvonareva)

20 (22). Ana Ivanovic SRB - 768.7
Last week: Australian Open R128 (l. Makarova)

21 (32). Shuai Peng CHN - 764.3
Last week: Australian Open R16 (l. Radwanska)

22 (30). Andrea Petkovic GER - 764.1
Last week: Australian Open QF (l. Li)

23 (13). Nadia Petrova RUS - 762.9
Last week: Australian Open R32 (l. Makarova)

24 (21). Yanina Wickmayer BEL - 760.5
Last week: Australian Open R64 (l. Sevastova)

25 (25). Dominika Cibulkova SVK - 759.2
Last week: Australian Open R32 (l. Wozniacki)

In: Petra Kvitova, Shuai Peng, Andrea Petkovic, Dominika Cibulkova
Out: Serena Williams, Maria Kirilenko, Daniela Hantuchova, Alisa Kleybanova

January 31st Rankings

2011-02-01T21:35:00.000-08:00

Novak Djokovic played some spectacular tennis to claim the Australian Open title for the second time, and while he managed to narrow the gap to Roger Federer for #2, the Serbian is still #3, though he will have plenty of chances to move up. Otherwise, there weren't many changes in the top 10; semifinalist David Ferrer went past David Nalbandian into 6th, Stanislas Wawrinka moved past Roddick, whom he beat, with the Swiss #2 going to 8th, and Tomas Berdych got into the top 10, at the expense of Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.

Winners:
Australian Open
#3 Novak Djokovic SRB (3)
1st round Marcel Granollers ESP (61) | 6-1 6-3 6-1
2nd round Ivan Dodig CRO (90) | 7-5 6-7(8) 6-0 6-2
3rd round #29 Viktor Troicki SRB (22) | 6-2 ret.
4th round #14 Nicolas Almagro ESP (17) | 6-3 6-4 6-0
Quarters #6 Tomas Berdych CZE (10) | 6-1 7-6(5) 6-1
Semis #2 Roger Federer SUI (2) | 7-6(3) 7-5 6-4
Final #5 Andy Murray GBR (4) | 6-4 6-2 6-3
Average Opponent Rank 29.4

Djokovic lost just one set all tournament, and that was in a close tiebreaker in an early round match. He looked in clear command against Murray in the final, and registered a second straight semifinal win over Federer, while also making solid threats like Berdych
and Almagro look pretty week.

Challengers:
Bucaramanga: #5 Eric Prodon FRA (140) d. Fernando Romboli BRA (377)
Heilbronn: Bastian Knittel GER (177) d. #6 Daniel Brands GER (93)
Honolulu: #6 Ryan Harrison USA (109) d. Alex Kuznetsov USA (218)
Reunion: Abandoned due to rain and flooding
Singapore: Dmitry Tursunov RUS (94) d. #5 Lukas Rosol CZE (131)

Futures:
Brazil F4: Ricardo Hocevar BRA (305)
China F2: Mao-Xin Gong CHN (335)
Germany F2: Jan Mertl CZE (182)
Great Britain F2: Harri Heliovaara FIN (397)
Israel F2: Adam Kellner HUN (346)
Mexico F1: Roman Borvanov MDA (446)
Spain F2: Pablo Carreno-Busta ESP (293)
Turkey F2: Abandoned due to rain
USA F2: Alex Bogdanovic GBR (211)
Brazil F5: Andre Ghem BRA (363)
Cambodia F1: Danai Udomchoke THA (247)
France F1: Maxime Teixiera FRA (264)
Germany F3: Jan Mertl CZE (182)
Guatemala F1: Christopher Diaz-Figueroa GUA (684)
Israel F3: Adam Kellner HUN (346)
Spain F3: Pedro Clar-Rossello ESP (316)
Turkey F3: Marcin Gawron POL (368)
USA F3: Phillip Simmonds USA (460)

Interesting that two tournaments were rained out; Reunion was unable to get past the round of 16, while Turkey F1 couldn't complete the final due to rain and a problem with their indoor courts.

Riser of the Week (top 100):
Tommy Robredo ESP (37), Up 19
Robredo had a fairly poor 2010, falling out of the top 50 by year's end, but got back to some form in Melbourne. He lost easily to Santiago Giraldo (51) in the first round last year, but his time around got wins over Somdev Devvarman (157), Mardy Fish (13) and Sergiy Stakhovsky (60), before falling to Roger Federer (2).

Riser of the Week (other):
Milos Raonic CAN (116), Up 68
The talented young Canadian, who just turned 20 a month or so ago, was one of the big stories of the tournament, as he advanced to the fourth round, a joint best for any Canadian. Along the way, he notched three impressive straight set wins, beating Bjorn Phau (105), Michael Llodra (27) and Mikhail Youzhny (15), before giving a solid challenge to David Ferrer (6). He certainly looks like a player to watch this season.

Dropper of the Week (top 100):
Nikolay Davydenko RUS (36), Down 14
Davydenko's struggles continue; it's hard to believe that just a year ago he came into Melbourne flying high, and gave Federer a real scare before capitulating in the quarterfinals. Coming in off a finals appearance in Doha, things seemed promising for him, but he lost first round to Florian Mayer (31), sending him well out of the top 25.

Dropper of the Week:
Evgeny Korolev KAZ (166), Down 71
Last year at this time, Korolev was flying relatively high, having made the third round in Melbourne with a win over Tomas Berdych (10). A poor season followed though, and Korolev was unable to even qualify for the main draw in this year's event, losing in the second round of qualies to Frank Dancevic (139). He then proceeded to the Heilbronn challenger, where he lost first round to Alex Bogomolov (174). Two losses in the ranking period really did a lot of damage to his position, sending him out of the top 100.

1 (1). Rafael Nadal ESP - 837.5
Last week: Australian Open QF (l. Ferrer)

2 (2). Roger Federer SUI - 821.1
Last week: Australian Open SF (l. Djokovic)

3 (3). Novak Djokovic SRB - 815.0
Last week: Australian Open W

4 (4). Andy Murray GBR - 798.9
Last week: Australian Open F (l. Djokovic)

5 (5). Robin Soderling SWE - 798.3
Last week: Australian Open R16 (l. Dolgopolov)

6 (7). David Ferrer ESP - 791.9
Last week: Australian Open SF (l. Murray)

7 (6). David Nalbandian ARG - 788.1
Last week: Australian Open R64 (l. Berankis)

8 (9). Stanislas Wawrinka SUI - 786.4
Last week: Australian Open QF (l. Federer)

9 (8). Andy Roddick USA - 780.6
Last week: Australian Open R16 (l. Wawrinka)

10 (12). Tomas Berdych CZE - 780.5
Last week: Australian Open QF (l. Djokovic)

11 (13). Jurgen Melzer AUT - 775.3
Last week: Australian Open R16 (l. Murray)

12 (15). Fernando Verdasco ESP - 773.1
Last week: Australian Open R16 (l. Berdych)

13 (14). Mardy Fish USA - 771.0
Last week: Australian Open R64 (l. Robredo)

14 (16). Gael Monfils FRA - 771.0
Last week: Australian Open R32 (l. Wawrinka)

15 (11). Mikhail Youzhny RUS - 770.2
Last week: Australian Open R32 (l. Raonic)

16 (10). Jo-Wilfried Tsonga FRA - 768.9
Last week: Australian Open R32 (l. Dolgopolov)

17 (18). Nicolas Almagro ESP - 765.1
Last week: Australian Open R16 (l. Djokovic)

18 (25). Juan Carlos Ferrero ESP - 757.1
Last week: None

19 (21). Gilles Simon FRA - 755.9
Last week: Australian Open R64 (l. Federer)

20 (27). Richard Gasquet FRA - 751.7
Last week: Australian Open R32 (l. Berdych)

21 (19). Lleyton Hewitt AUS - 750.9
Last week: Australian Open R128 (l. Nalbandian)

22 (31). Viktor Troicki SRB - 750.8
Last week: Australian Open R32 (l. Djokovic)

23 (20). Marin Cilic CRO - 750.1
Last week: Australian Open R16 (l. Nadal)

24 (24). Ernests Gulbis LAT - 749.0
Last week: Australian Open R128 (l. Becker)

25 (23). Philipp Kohlschreiber GER - 748.5
Last week: Australian Open R64 (l. Berdych)

In: Richard Gasquet, Viktor Troicki
Out: Ivo Karlovic, Nikolay Davydenko

January 17th - Junior Rankings

2011-01-22T14:26:00.001-08:00

ATP U20 - The rankings for all players under 20 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

A nice result for Tomic, who qualified for Sydney with a couple of solid wins.

1 (1). Grigor Dimitrov BUL (19.6) - #84, +2
Last week: None

2 (2). Ryan Harrison USA (18.6) - #124, -1
Last week: None

3 (3). Bernard Tomic AUS (18.2) - #133, +20
Last week: Sydney R32 (Q)

4 (4). Andrey Kuznetsov RUS (19.9) - #218, +3
Last week: None

5 (5). Filip Krajinovic SRB (18.8) - #238, -2
Last week: None

6 (6). Facundo Arguello ARG (18.4) - #305, 0
Last week: None

7 (9). Di Wu CHN (19.3) - #314, +16
Last week: China F1 FU W

8 (7). Pablo Carreno-Busta ESP (19.5) - #325, +1
Last week: None

9 (8). Tsung-Hua Yang TPE (19.8) - #329, -1
Last week: None

10 (10). Laurynas Grigelis LTU (19.4) - #350, -2
Last week: None

ATP U18 - The rankings for all players under 18 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Jason Kubler AUS (17.6) - #444, +7
Last week: None

2 (2). Carlos Boluda-Purkiss ESP (17.9) - #609, -2
Last week: None

3 (3). Suk-Young Jeong KOR (17.7) - #626, -2
Last week: USA F1 FU QR1

4 (4). Tiago Fernandes BRA (17.9) - #649, +5
Last week: None

5 (5). Robert Rumler CZE (17.1) - #691, -4
Last week: Israel F1 FU R16

6 (6). Juan Ignacio Londero ARG (17.4) - #755, -3
Last week: None

ITF Juniors - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Carlos Boluda-Purkiss ESP (17.9)
2 (2). Jiri Vesely CZE (17.5)
3 (3). Tiago Fernandes BRA (17.9)
4 (4). Roberto Carballes Baena ESP (17.8)
5 (5). Joris De Loore BEL (17.7)
6 (6). Oliver Golding GBR (17.2)
7 (7). Andres Artundeo Martinavarr ESP (17.3)
8 (8). Jannick Lupescu NED (17.4)
9 (9). Dominic Thiem AUT (17.3)
10 (10). Mathias Bourgue FRA (16.9)

ITF Juniors U17 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Mathias Bourgue FRA (16.9) - #21, +1
2 (2). Alexios Halebian USA (16.5) - #33, 0
3 (4). Miki Jankovic SRB (16.2) - #38, +10
4 (3). Thiago Moura Monteiro BRA (16.6) - #41, -2
5 (5). Gregoire Barrere FRA (16.8) - #51, 0
6 (7). Luke Saville AUS (16.9) - #56, 0
7 (8). Lucas Pouille FRA (16.8) - #58, +1
8 (6). Jae Hwan Kim KOR (16.2) - #59, -4
9 (9). Enzo Couacaud FRA (15.8) - #74, -1
10 (10). Evgeny Karlovskiy RUS (16.4) - #88, -4

ITF Juniors U16 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Enzo Couacaud FRA (15.8) - #74, -1
2 (2). Gianlugi Quinzi (14.9) - #121, +8
3 (3). Luke Bambridge GBR (15.9) - #135, +6
4 (4). Frederico Ferreira Silva POR (15.8) - #147, -2
5 (5). Nikola Milojevic SRB (15.5) - #149, +13
6 (6). Yoshihito Nishioka JPN (15.2) - #184, -1
7 (7). Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul THA (15.7) - #200, +3
8 (8). Albert Alcaraz Ivorra ESP (15.6) - #211, +8
9 (9). Alxandre Favort FRA (15.8) - #232, -5
10 (10). Chi-Shan Jao TPE (15.6) - #241, -6

January 17th Rankings - Women

2011-01-22T14:04:00.000-08:00

One big leap into the top 10, as Na Li comes all the way from 13th to 8th after winning in Sydney. The fallers in her place are Dementieva, who falls to 10th, and Shahar Peer, who drops out of the top 10, to 11th.

Winners:

Hobart
#6 Jarmila Groth AUS (51)
1st round Johanna Larsson SWE (58)
2nd round Tamira Paszek AUT (121)
Quarters #4 Roberta Vinci ITA (31)
Semis #5 Klara Zakopalova CZE (52)
Final Bethanie Mattek-Sands USA (35)
Average Opponent Rank 42.6

Sydney
#8 Na Li CHN (8)
1st round Anastasia Rodionova AUS (56)
2nd round Virginie Razzano FRA (72)
Quarters Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS (19)
Semis Bojana Jovanovski SRB (76)
Final #3 Kim Clijsters BEL (2)
Average Opponent Rank 45.0

A rain-soaked event in Hobart ended with a home winner, as Jarmila Groth progressed through the tournament without dropping a set. There weren't any maruqee names in the field for her to face, but she did well nonetheless.

Last year's AO semifinalist, Na Li, continued her good play down under, getting a nice tournament win in Sydney. She was pushed in a couple of her early matches, but really impressed in the final, where she beat Kim Clijsters in straights.

ITF events:

25K
Pingguo: #4 Jing-Jing Lu CHN (189) d. #6 Tetiana Luzhanska UKR (260)
Plantation: #8 Sharon Fichmand CAN (206) d. #7 Alexandra Cadantu ROU (193)

10K
Gosier: Gail Brodsky USA (332)
Glasgow: Jamina Tinjic CRO (289)

Riser of the Week (top 100):
Na Li CHN (8), Up 5
No surprise to see Li here, as her win against Clijsters in Sydney has placed her firmly among the second group of favourites, behind Clijsters, to win the AO title.

Riser of the Week (other):
Sharon Fichman CAN (206), Up 58
The 20-year-old Canadian won on clay in Florida, with her best win coming over Cadantu in the final.

Dropper of the Week (top 100):
Vera Dushevina (50), Down 8
Last year, Dushevina qualified for the Sydney MD, then won two matches before falling to Serena Williams. This year, she couldn't get through the qualies, losing to Sorana Cirstea (89)

Dropper of the Week:
Yi-Miao Zhou CHN (267), Down 55
Zhou won a couple of ITF level events right at the start of 2010, but as those have fallen off, her inactivity in 2011 has seen her fall significantly

1 (1). Serena Williams USA - 854.1
Last week: None

2 (2). Kim Clijsters BEL - 836.9
Last week: Sydney F (l. Li)

3 (3). Justine Henin BEL - 827.4
Last week: None

4 (4). Venus Williams USA - 819.1
Last week: None

5 (5). Caroline Wozniacki DEN - 811.8
Last week: Sydney R32 (l. Cibulkova)

6 (6). Vera Zvonareva RUS - 806.2
Last week: Sydney R16 (l. Pennetta)

7 (7). Samantha Stosur AUS - 797.5
Last week: Sydney R16 (l. Kuznetsova)

8 (13). Na Li CHN - 784.8
Last week: Sydney W

9 (9). Maria Sharapova RUS - 783.4
Last week: None

10 (8). Elena Dementieva RUS - 783.4
Last week: None

11 (10). Shahar Peer ISR - 781.9
Last week: Sydney R16 (l. Azarenka)

12 (11). Francesca Schiavone ITA - 779.8
Last week: Sydney R32 (l. Kleybanova)

13 (12). Nadia Petrova RUS - 779.5
Last week: Sydney R32 (l. Zahlavova Strycova)

14 (14). Victoria Azarenka BLR - 779.1
Last week: Sydney QF (l. Clijsters)

15 (15). Flavia Pennetta ITA - 774.3
Last week: Sydney QF (l. Jovanovski)

16 (18). Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS - 773.2
Last week: Hobart R32 (l. Mattek-Sands)

17 (16). Kaia Kanepi EST - 773.0
Last week: Sydney R32 (l. Jovanovski)

18 (17). Jelena Jankovic SRB - 772.4
Last week: Sydney R32 (l. Rezai)

19 (20). Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS - 772.0
Last week: Sydney QF (l. Li)

20 (21). Agnieszka Radwanska POL - 770.5
Last week: None

21 (19). Yanina Wickmayer BEL - 769.5
Last week: Sydney R32 (l. Stosur)

22 (22). Ana Ivanovic SRB - 769.1
Last week: None

23 (23). Maria Kirilenko RUS - 763.7
Last week: Sydney R32 (l. Cibulkova)

24 (24). Daniela Hantuchova SVK - 761.8
Last week: Sydney R32 (l. Martinez Sanchez)

25 (27). Alisa Kleybanova RUS - 761.0
Last week: Sydney SF (l. Clijsters)

In: Alisa Kleybanova
Out: Petra Kvitova

January 17th Rankings

2011-01-22T13:08:00.000-08:00

A couple of moves in the top 10, as Stan Wawrinka goes up to #9, dropping Tsonga one place, and Auckland winner David Ferrer leaps over Roddick into 7th.

Winners:

Auckland
#1 David Ferrer ESP (7)
1st round Bye
2nd round Tobias Kamke GER (82)
Quarters #8 Philipp Kohlschreiber GER (23)
Semis Santiago Giraldo COL (53)
Final #6 David Nalbandian ARG (6)
Average Opponent Rank 41.0

Sydney
Gilles Simon FRA (21)
1st round #8 Yen-Hsun Lu TPE (61)
2nd round Frederico Gil POR (81)
Quarters Alexandr Dolgopolov UKR (47)
Semis #3 Ernests Gulbis LAT (24)
Final #4 Viktor Troicki SRB (31)
Average Opponent Rank 48.8

Ferrer will go into Melbourne as a player to watch, especially given the manner of his commanding final victory over Nalbandian, 3-and-2. He also notched a nice win over Kohlschreiber to set himself up well for the Aussie Open.

Simon, a former top 10 player fallen on harder times, also made a big statement before the Open, winning without dropping a set in Sydney. He didn't face any really top-level competition, but he will be one of the most dangerous unseeded floaters in the AO draw.

Challengers:
None

Futures:
China F1: Di Wu CHN (314)
Turkey F1: Artem Smirnov UKR (342)
Spain F1: Javier Marti ESP (395)
USA F1: Luka Gregorc SLO (346)
Brazil F3: Andre Begemann GER (321)
Israel F1: Valery Rudnev RUS (453)
Britain F1: Kenny De Schepper FRA (333)
Germany F1: Andis Juska LAT (301)

Riser of the Week (top 100):
Gilles Simon FRA (21), Up 6
Simon didn't play at all down under in 2010, so winning a tournament early this season gave him a nice boost into the top 25.

Riser of the Week:
Chris Guccione AUS (191), Up 35
The big-serving Aussie had a poor 2010, but revived some hopes for a nice home run in Sydney, where he beat the likes of Alejandro Falla (80) and Michal Przysiezny (114) to make the main draw, where he lost first round.

Dropper of the Week (top 100):
Marcos Baghdatis CYP (35), Down 7
Baghdtais was a winner in Sydney last year, getting several solid victories along the way, including beating Mardy Fish (14), Lleyton Hewitt (19) and Richard Gasquet (27). This year, he was inactive on the week, causing him to fall away from the edge of the top 25.

Dropper of the Week:
Nicolas Massu CHI (267), Down 35
The now-31 Massu had a nice run in Ecuador this time last year, making it to the final of a challenger in Salinas. Without those wins, he took a solid drop down the rankings.

1 (1). Rafael Nadal ESP - 839.1
Last week: None

2 (2). Roger Federer SUI - 827.1
Last week: None

3 (3). Novak Djokovic SRB - 805.0
Last week: None

4 (4). Andy Murray GBR - 801.7
Last week: None

5 (5). Robin Soderling SWE - 799.3
Last week: None

6 (6). David Nalbandian ARG - 794.2
Last week: Auckland F (l. Ferrer)

7 (8). David Ferrer ESP - 787.5
Last week: Auckland W

8 (7). Andy Roddick USA - 783.3
Last week: None

9 (10). Stanislas Wawrinka SUI - 780.5
Last week: None

10 (9). Jo-Wilfried Tsonga FRA - 779.9
Last week: None

11 (11). Mikhail Youzhny RUS - 778.2
Last week: None

12 (12). Tomas Berdych CZE - 773.8
Last week: None

13 (15). Jurgen Melzer AUT - 771.4
Last week: None

14 (14). Mardy Fish USA - 770.8
Last week: None

15 (13). Fernando Verdasco ESP - 770.0
Last week: None

16 (16). Gael Monfils FRA - 768.8
Last week: None

17 (17). Ivo Karlovic CRO - 767.6
Last week: None

18 (18). Nicolas Almagro ESP - 764.9
Last week: Auckland SF (l. Nalbandian)

19 (19). Lleyton Hewitt AUS - 762.0
Last week: None

20 (20). Marin Cilic CRO - 757.1
Last week: None

21 (27). Gilles Simon FRA - 756.5
Last week: Sydney W

22 (22). Nikolay Davydenko RUS - 754.6
Last week: None

23 (25). Philipp Kohlschreiber GER - 752.8
Last week: Auckland QF (l. Ferrer)

24 (23). Ernests Gulbis LAT - 752.3
Last week: Sydney SF (l. simon)

25 (30). Juan Carlos Ferrero ESP - 751.5
Last week: None

In: Gilles Simon, Juan Carlos Ferrero
Out: John Isner, Richard Gasquet

January 10th - Junior Rankings

2011-01-12T12:29:00.000-08:00

ATP U20 - The rankings for all players under 20 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Grigor Dimitrov BUL (19.6) - #86, +6
Last week: None

2 (2). Ryan Harrison USA (18.6) - #123, +14
Last week: Brisbane R32 (Q)

3 (3). Bernard Tomic AUS (18.1) - #153, +1
Last week: Brisbane R32

4 (4). Andrey Kuznetsov RUS (19.8) - #221, +1
Last week: None

5 (5). Filip Krajinovic SRB (18.8) - #236, -6
Last week: None

6 (6). Facundo Arguello ARG (18.4) - #305, +2
Last week: None

7 (8). Pablo Carreno-Busta ESP (19.5) - #326, +2
Last week: None

8 (7). Tsung-Hua Yang TPE (19.8) - #328, -16
Last week: Sao Paulo R16

9 (9). Di Wu CHN (19.3) - #330, +1
Last week: None

10 (10). Laurynas Grigelis LTU (19.4) - #348, +1
Last week: None

ATP U18 - The rankings for all players under 18 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Jason Kubler AUS (17.6) - #451, +20
Last week: None

2 (2). Carlos Boluda-Purkiss ESP (17.9) - #607, -1
Last week: None

3 (3). Suk-Young Jeong KOR (17.7) - #624, +3
Last week: None

4 (4). Tiago Fernandes BRA (17.9) - #654, -1
Last week: Sao Paulo CH QR2

5 (5). Robert Rumler CZE (17.1) - #687, 0
Last week: None

6 (6). Juan Ignacio Londero ARG (17.4) - #752, 0
Last week: None

ITF Juniors - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Carlos Boluda-Purkiss ESP (17.9)
2 (2). Jiri Vesely CZE (17.5)
3 (3). Tiago Fernandes BRA (17.9)
4 (4). Roberto Carballes Baena ESP (17.8)
5 (5). Joris De Loore BEL (17.7)
6 (6). Oliver Golding GBR (17.2)
7 (7). Andres Artundeo Martinavarr ESP (17.3)
8 (8). Jannick Lupescu NED (17.4)
9 (9). Mate Delic CRO (17.7)
10 (-). Mathias Bourgue FRA (16.9)

ITF Juniors U17 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Mathias Bourgue FRA (16.9) - #22, +1
2 (2). Alexios Halebian USA (16.6) - #33, -7
3 (3). Thiago Moura Monteiro BRA (16.6) - #39, -1
4 (5). Miki Jankovic SRB (16.3) - #48, +5
5 (4). Gregoire Barrere FRA (16.9) - #51, -5
6 (6). Jae Hwan Kim KOR (16.3) - #55, 0
7 (7). Luke Saville AUS (16.9) - #56, +1
8 (8). Lucas Pouille FRA (16.8) - #59, +4
9 (9). Enzo Couacaud FRA (15.8) - #73, +1
10 (10). Evgeny Karlovskiy RUS (16.4) - #84, -2

ITF Juniors U16 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Edmund ages out from #2, and Chi-Shan Jao enters as #10.

1 (1). Enzo Couacaud FRA (15.8) - #73, +1
2 (3). Gianlugi Quinzi (14.9) - #129, -15
3 (4). Luke Bambridge GBR (15.9) - #141, -2
4 (5). Frederico Ferreira Silva POR (15.8) - #145, 0
5 (6). Nikola Milojevic SRB (15.5) - #162, -2
6 (7). Yoshihito Nishioka JPN (15.2) - #183, -14
7 (8). Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul THA (15.7) - #203, +4
8 (10). Albert Alcaraz Ivorra ESP (15.6) - #219, +7
9 (9). Alxandre Favort FRA (15.8) - #227, -5
10 (-). Chi-Shan Jao TPE (15.6) - #235, -1

January 10th Rankings - Women

2011-01-10T17:10:00.000-08:00

The top 10 for the ladies are unchanged from last year. The injured Serena Williams is #1, followed by the two Belgians (Clijsters, then Henin), then Venus. Wozniacki, the WTA #1 is ranked 5, with the top 10 completed by Zvonareva, Stosur, Dementieva, Sharapova and Peer.

Winners:

Auckland
Greta Arn HUN (73)
1st round Zuzana Ondraskova CZE (79)
2nd round #8 Sofia Arvidsson SWE (60)
Quarters #1 Maria Sharapova RUS (9)
Semis #4 Julia Goerges GER (46)
Final #2 Yanina Wickmayer BEL (19)
Average Opponent Rank 42.6

Brisbane
Petra Kvitova CZE (25)
1st round #3 Nadia Petrova RUS (12)
2nd round Ksenia Pervak RUS (96)
Quarters Dominika Cibulkova SVK (30)
Semis Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS (18)
Final Andrea Petkovic GER (29)
Average Opponent Rank 37.0

Arn, a 32-year-old veteran, was a surprising winner in Auckland, especially given that she took out three top 4 seeds without dropping a set. It was her first title in four years, and, given that she just got into the main draw, it was a spectacular result for her.

Kvitova didn't get any marquee wins en route to winning in Brisbane, but was solid in beating Petrova in round one, then got three more top 30 victories.

Riser of the Week (top 100):
Petra Kvitova CZE (25), Up 7
The 20-year-old Czech, winner in Brisbane, moves up to the edge of the top 25.

Riser of the Week (other):
Jing-Jing Lu CHN (216), Up 42
Lu won a $50000 ITF event in her home country, at Quanzhou. Her best win came in the final, when she won a three setter against Stephanie Foretz Gacon (154).

Dropper of the Week (top 100):
Yanina Wickmayer BEL (19), Down 3
Harsh for a finalist to be dropper of the week, but last year Wickmayer won the Auckland event, and got some good victories to boot, over Flavia Pennetta (15) and Shahar Peer (10).

Dropper of the Week:
Aleksandra Krunic SRB (238), Down 48
A 17-year-old Serb is the dropper of the week. Last year, she played in the ITF event in Quanzhou, and not only qualified for the main draw, but won the whole event for 8 straight wins; as a 16-year-old! This year, though, she was quite poor, losing meekly to Julia Glushko (263)

1 (1). Serena Williams USA - 847.5
Last week: None

2 (2). Kim Clijsters BEL - 837.7
Last week: None

3 (3). Justine Henin BEL - 826.9
Last week: None

4 (4). Venus Williams USA - 817.7
Last week: None

5 (5). Caroline Wozniacki DEN - 811.8
Last week: None

6 (6). Vera Zvonareva RUS - 805.4
Last week: None

7 (7). Samantha Stosur AUS - 796.1
Last week: Brisbane R16 (l. Groth)

8 (8). Elena Dementieva RUS - 790.6
Last week: None

9 (9). Maria Sharapova RUS - 782.6
Last week: Auckland QF (l. Arn)

10 (10). Shahar Peer ISR - 781.5
Last week: Brisbane R16 (l. Safarova)

11 (12). Francesca Schiavone ITA - 780.8
Last week: None

12 (11). Nadia Petrova RUS - 779.7
Last week: Brisbane R32 (l. Kvitova)

13 (14). Na Li CHN - 778.8
Last week: Brisbane R32 (l. Becker)

14 (15). Victoria Azarenka BLR - 777.1
Last week: None

15 (13). Flavia Pennetta ITA - 775.3
Last week: None

16 (19). Kaia Kanepi EST - 772.9
Last week: None

17 (17). Jelena Jankovic SRB - 772.5
Last week: None

18 (18). Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS - 772.3
Last week: Brisbane SF (l. Kvitova)

19 (16). Yanina Wickmayer BEL - 770.2
Last week: Auckland F (l. Arn)

20 (20). Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS - 769.9
Last week: Auckland R16 (l. Peng)

21 (22). Agnieszka Radwanska POL - 768.0
Last week: None

22 (21). Ana Ivanovic SRB - 768.0
Last week: None

23 (23). Maria Kirilenko RUS - 764.9
Last week: None

24 (24). Daniela Hantuchova SVK - 762.6
Last week: None

25 (32). Petra Kvitova CZE - 758.6
Last week: Brisbane W

In: Petra Kvitova
Out: Alisa Kleybanova

January 10th Rankings

2011-01-10T17:09:00.000-08:00

Stanislas Wawrinka, winner in Chennai this week, moves into the top 10, displacing Mikhail Youzhny by one place.

Winners:

Brisbane
#1 Robin Soderling SWE (5)
1st round Ryan Harrison USA (123)
2nd round Michael Berrer GER (68)
Quarters Matthew Ebden AUS (168)
Semis Radek Stepanek CZE (42)
Final #2 Andy Roddick USA (7)
Average Opponent Rank 81.6

Chennai
#3 Stanislas Wawrinka SUI (10)
1st round Rohan Bopanna IND (n/a)
2nd round David Goffin BEL (204)
Quarters #8 Robin Haase NED (58)
Semis #1 Tomas Berdych CZE (12)
Final #7 Xavier Malisse BEL (50)
Average Opponent Rank 81.0

Doha
#2 Roger Federer SUI (2)
1st round Thomas Schoorel NED (134)
2nd round Marco Chiudinelli SUI (126)
Quarters #6 Viktor Troicki SRB (34)
Semis #3 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga FRA (9)
Final #4 Nikolay Davydenko RUS (22)
Average Opponent Rank 65.0

Soderling got a hugely important win in Brisbane, as it moved him up to #4 in the ATP rankings, enuring he will have his own quarter in the draw. He didn't get much challenge in the first matches of the event, but didn't drop a set in beating Stepanek and Roddick on the weekend.

Wawrinka's entry into the top 10 came after he easily handled Berdych in the semifinals, though he didn't have that easy a time in the tournament, dropping sets to Malisse and Haase, and getting a solid challenge from Goffin.

The defending Aussie open champion did his business in Doha, not dropping a set en route to the title. He was somewhat helped by Nadal's semifinal loss to Davydenko, but he still got solid wins over Troicki, Tsonga and Davydenko

Challengers:
Noumea: Vincent Millot FRA (212) d. #3 Gilles Muller LUX (131)
Sao Paulo: #1 Ricardo Mello BRA (107) d. Rafael Camilo BRA (389)

Riser of the Week (top 100):
Xavier Malisse BEL (50), Up 7
Malisse made a nice run to the Chennai final, which included a very nice win in the semifinals over Janko Tipsarevic (48).

Riser of the Week:
Rafael Camilo BRA (592), Up 79
A 20-year-old Brazilian, Camilo made his way to the final of a challenger in Sao Paolo, and while he played poorly against Ricardo Mello, he did get a nice win over Horacio Zeballos (147).

Dropper of the Week (top 100):
Florian Mayer GER (35), Down 5
Mayer had a couple of wins in Brisbane last week, but he dropped a win from last year's Noumea challenger, that included beating Kevin Anderson (51) in the semis.

Dropper of the Week:
Marc Gicquel FRA (151), Down 17
Gicquel had a dissapointing loss in the first round in Noumea, dropping to the eventual champion, Millot.

1 (1). Rafael Nadal ESP - 838.2
Last week: Doha SF (l. Davydenko)

2 (2). Roger Federer SUI - 826.6
Last week: Doha W

3 (3). Novak Djokovic SRB - 804.4
Last week: None

4 (4). Andy Murray GBR - 801.4
Last week: None

5 (5). Robin Soderling SWE - 798.7
Last week: Brisbane W

6 (6). David Nalbandian ARG - 791.5
Last week: None

7 (7). Andy Roddick USA - 783.1
Last week: Brisbane F (l. Soderling)

8 (8). David Ferrer ESP - 782.3
Last week: None

9 (9). Jo-Wilfried Tsonga FRA - 779.3
Last week: Doha SF (l. Federer)

10 (11). Stanislas Wawrinka SUI - 778.2
Last week: Chennai W

11 (10). Mikhail Youzhny RUS - 778.0
Last week: None

12 (12). Tomas Berdych CZE - 771.8
Last week: Chennai SF (l. Wawrinka)

13 (13). Fernando Verdasco ESP - 769.9
Last week: Brisbane R32 (l. Becker)

14 (14). Mardy Fish USA - 769.2
Last week: Brisbane R16 (l. Stepanek)

15 (17). Jurgen Melzer AUT - 769.0
Last week: None

16 (15). Gael Monfils FRA - 768.8
Last week: None

17 (16). Ivo Karlovic CRO - 768.0
Last week: Doha QF (l. Davydenko)

18 (19). Nicolas Almagro ESP - 761.8
Last week: None

19 (20). Lleyton Hewitt AUS - 761.5
Last week: None

20 (18). Marin Cilic CRO - 756.7
Last week: Chennai R32 (l. Nishikori)

21 (22). John Isner USA - 756.2
Last week: None

22 (21). Nikolay Davydenko RUS - 754.5
Last week: Doha F (l. Federer)

23 (24). Ernests Gulbis LAT - 752.4
Last week: Doha QF (l. Nadal)

24 (23). Richard Gasquet FRA - 752.2
Last week: Chennai R16 (l. Phau)

25 (25). Philipp Kohlschreiber GER - 751.1
Last week: Doha R16 (l. Karlovic)

In: None
Out: None

2010 Year End Rankings

2011-01-07T17:02:00.000-08:00

Here are the yearly awards:

Risers of the Year (Top 50):
3. Ernests Gulbis LAT (24), Up 39 - 31-20
Gulbis' 2009 was horrific; it took him until October to win more than one match at a tournament. Fortunately for the young Latvian, he was much better in 2010, getting back to the top 25 and getting some nice results, including his first career title at Delray Beach, though his Grand Slam results were somewhat lacking, and he had a poor end to the year. His biggest result came at the Rome masters event, where he shocked Federer before taking a set of Nadal in the semifinals, and the biggest dissapointment of his year was an injury forcing his retirement at Roland Garros after an excellent clay season.

Best Results:
SF Rome - Masters
W Delray Beach - 250
QF Madrid - Masters
SF Memphis - 500

Best Wins
d. #2 Roger Federer 2:6 6:1 7:5, Rome R32
d. #10 Mikhail Youzhny 7:6(2) 6:4, Madrid R32
d. #12 Tomas Berdych 3:6 6:3 7:6(3), Memphis QF

Worst Losses
lt. #108 Dmitri Tursunov 3:6 4:6, Tokyo R32
lt. #81 Alejandro Falla 6:4 3:6 6:7(8), Los Angeles R16
lt. #58 Leonardo Mayer 5:7 4:6, San Jose R32

2. Mardy Fish USA (14), Up 37 - 41-15
Fish had an injury filled 2009, and when his early results from that year began to fall off, he fell even further, going as low as the 70s midway through the season. However, some very strong performances in American events of the early spring and the summer really gave him a boost, and his excellent play on the grass gave him a title and a final, though he will be very dissapointed by going out early at Wimbledon. His best show came in Cincinnati, where he beat Verdasco, Murray and Roddick en route to the final, where he had a set lead on Federer before losing. His 3-0 record against Andy Murray on the year was very interesting, and you've got to imagine the Scot will be hoping to avoid him in every draw this year.

Best Results:
F Cincinnati - Masters
W Atlanta - 250
W Newport - 250
R16 US Open - GS

Best Wins
d. #4 Andy Murray 6:4 6:4, Miami R64
d. #4 Andy Murray 6:4 1:6 7:6(2), Queen's R16
d. #4 Andy Murray 6:7(7) 6:1 7:6(5), Cincinnati QF

Worst Losses
lt. #58 Leonardo Mayer 4:6 0:6, Memphis R32
lt. #51 Andrey Golubev 2:6 6:1 3:6 3:6, Australian Open R128
lt. #49 Alexandr Dolgopolov 7:6(5) 4:6 6:7(5), Madrid QR2

1. Mikhail Youzhny RUS (10), Up 18 - 43-19
Youzhny's spectacular season came out of nowhere; he had been a top 10 player a couple of years ago, but seemed to have hit his peak, so him rising as high as 7th in the fall was unexpected. He made his statement early, making the finals at 500s in Dubai and Rotterdam, and making the quarters in Miami, but really stepped up in New York, where he took advantage of the higher seeds in his quarter (Murray and Berdych) losing to push through to surprise semifinal. He came up poor against Federer, but it was still a huge result for him.

Best Results:
SF US Open - GS
QF Roland Garros - GS
F Dubai - 500
F Rotterdam - 500

Best Wins
d. #3 Novak Djokovic 7:6(5) 7:6(6), Rotterdam SF
d. #11 Stanislas Wawrinka 1:6 7:6(5) 7;5, Miami R32
d. #11 Stanislas Wawrinka 3:6 7:6(7) 3:6 6:3 6:3, US Open QF

Worst Losses
lt. n/a Nicolas Kiefer 6:4 1:6 5:7, Halle R32
lt. #133 Yuriy Schukin 4:6 6:2 5:7, Gstaad QF
lt. #77 Paul-Henri Mathieu 4:6 6:2 6:2 3:6 4:6, Wimbledon R64

Riser of the Year (Top 100):
Richard Berankis LTU (70), Up 200 - 49-18
This 20-year-old Lithuanian had a huge breakthrough season, and looks poised to make a run into the top 50 this season. He had a first strong result in San Jose, where he qualified and made the quarterfinals, and won matches at both Wimbledon and the US Open. The rest of his success came at the challenger level, where he won at Nottingham and Helsinki, and made the finals in Vancouver.

Best Results:
W Helsinki - CH
W Nottingham - CH
R64 US Open - GS
R64 Wimbledon - GS

Best Wins
d. #52 Kevin Anderson 7:5 7:5, Nottingham CH R16
d. #82 Adrian Mannarino 6:3 3:6 6:4, Nottingham CH SF
d. #83 Stephane Robert 7:6(4) 6:2, Great Britain F2 FU SF

Worst Losses
lt. #311 Jan-Lennard Struff 6:3 3:6 4:6, Eckental CH R32
lt. #239 Jesse Witten 4:6 4:6, Binghamton CH R32
lt. #177 Ramon Delgado 1:6 6:3 6:7(5), Dallas CH R32

Riser of the Year (Other):
Thomas Schoorel NED (135), Up 240 - 55-20
The young Dutchman looks poised for a solid year, after he had a major rise in 2010, which he started in futures event. He's already made his ATP level debut, and its likely a Grand Slam debut will come at some point this year.

Best Results:
F Scheveningen - CH
F Alphen aan den Rijn - CH
W Netherlands F4 - FU
W Italy F4 - FU

Best Wins
d. #62 Marcel Granollers 6:4 7:5, Stockholm Q R3
d. #116 Jesse Huta Galung 6:2 7:6(5), Netherlands F4 FU F
d. #133 Yuriy Schukin 6:0 6:2, Scheveningen SF

Worst Losses
lt. #425 Sherif Sabry 3:6 4:6, Italy F5 FU R32
lt. #361 Niels Desein 7:6(2) 6:7(3) 6:7(6), Germany F4 FU F
lt. #334 Andrea Stoppini 2:6 4:6, Italy F6 FU QF

Dropper of the Year (Top 100):
3. Nikolay Davydenko RUS (21), Down 14
It feels impossible that at the start of 2010, Davydenko was a serious threat to make a long run in Melbourne, and that, for a set and a bit against Federer, it looked like he might do just that. He made the quarters down under, the semis in Rotterdam and won Doha, but that was the highpoint; he didn't get two wins in a row again until Cincinnati. Injuries kept him out for a few months, meaning he missed the whole clay season, and hopefully he can rebound with his entertaining brand of tennis in 2011. Davydenko was on the verge of cracking into the top 3-4 last year, passing Djokovic in the rankings at one point, and finishing 14th must be a huge dissapointment to him.

2. Kristof Vliegen BEL (237), Down 176
Vliegen suffered from some injury issues midway through 2009, and though he made an attempted comeback for the Australian Open, he didn't really get back onto tour until March. He didn't fully rebound to 2009 form though, when he had won a couple of challenger events, and made some progress at the ATP level. In 2010, Vliegen struggled to get past the second round of any tournament, doing so only twice, in challengers, and this caused him to fall heavily, out of the top 100.

1. Daniel Koellerer AUT (292), Down 220
At the end of 2009, it seemed like Koellerer might be poised to bring his volatile personality to the ATP tour, as he sat up at #72, due to strong showings in challengers and some promising ATP results. He couldn't have had a worse 2010, though, as he only managed back-to-back wins on three occasions all year, all three in challengers. In addition, he was hit with a penalty from the Tennis Integrity Unit, as his personal website was associated with betting websites. It remains to be seen if Koellerer's 2009 was just a fluke, or if he can get back to that level this year.

Dropper of the Year (overall):
Daniel Koellerer AUT (292), Down 220
The American veteran had a joke of a season, getting back-to-back wins only once all year, despite playing much of it at challenger level. The biggest surprise of Spadea's season was that he managed to win a Grand Slam match, at Wimbledon; it was a pleasant surprise, given how rare wins were for him.

Top new arrival:
David Nalbandian ARG (6)
Nalbandian's injury problems meant he was far from a full 2009, and while his 2010 was interrupted too, he did manage to play enough matches to qualify for the rankings. He didn't produce many great wins, but the key to his ranking was the quality of his losses; of his 10, just one came against a player outside the top 25, and half came against Nadal, Djokovic and Murray.

Highest drop-out
Juan Martin del Potro ARG
The other high profile Argentine was unable to follow up on his US Open championship, though he did feature in one of the season's most entertainig matches, beating Blake 10-8 in the fifth at Melbourne. After the AO, he didn't play again until September, and he didn't win a match after January. He's still just 22, and has a long and great career ahead of him if he can bounce back well from this injury.

December 13th - Junior Rankings

2011-01-06T21:43:00.000-08:00

ATP U20 - The rankings for all players under 20 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Michon ages out, Wu comes in.

1 (1). Grigor Dimitrov BUL (19.5) - #92, 0
Last week: None

2 (2). Ryan Harrison USA (18.6) - #137, 0
Last week: None

3 (3). Bernard Tomic AUS (18.1) - #154,0
Last week: None

4 (4). Milos Raonic CAN (19.9) - #194, +1
Last week: None

5 (5). Andrey Kuznetsov RUS (19.8) - #222, 0
Last week: None

6 (6). Filip Krajinovic SRB (18.8) - #229, 0
Last week: None

7 (8). Facundo Arguello ARG (18.3) - #307, -2
Last week: None

8 (9). Tsung-Hua Yang TPE (19.7) - #312, -1
Last week: None

9 (10). Pablo Carreno-Busta ESP (19.4) - #328, 0
Last week: None

10 (-). Di Wu CHN (19.2) - #330, 0
Last week: None

ATP U18 - The rankings for all players under 18 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Jason Kubler AUS (17.5) - #471, +2
Last week: None

2 (2). Carlos Boluda-Purkiss ESP (17.9) - #606, +1
Last week: None

3 (3). Suk-Young Jeong KOR (17.6) - #626, -4
Last week: None

4 (4). Guilherme Clezar BRA (17.9) - #638, -11
Last week: None

5 (5). Tiago Fernandes BRA (17.8) - #653, -5
Last week: None

6 (6). Robert Rumler CZE (17.0) - #687, 0
Last week: None

7 (-). Juan Ignacio Londero ARG (17.3) - #752, n/a
Last week: Chile F8 FU R16

ITF Juniors - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Eleveld drops out from second place, Olivo enters the top 10.

1 (1). Benjamin Mitchell AUS (18.0)
2 (3). Denis Kudla USA (18.3)
3 (4). Facundo Arguello ARG (18.3)
4 (5). Damir Dzumhur BIH (18.5)
5 (7). Marton Fucsovics HUN (18.8)
6 (6). James Duckworth AUS (18.9)
7 (8). Carlos Boluda-Purkiss ESP (17.9)
8 (9). Jiri Vesely CZE (17.4)
9 (10). Mikhail Biryukov RUS (18.6)
10 (-). Renzo Olivo ARG (18.7)

ITF Juniors U17 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Halebian moves up to first after making the semifinals at the Orange Bowl.

1 (2). Alexios Halebian USA (16.5) - #21, +8
2 (1). Mathias Bourgue FRA (16.8) - #25, +1
3 (3). Thiago Moura Monteiro BRA (16.5) - #47, -5
4 (4). Gregoire Barrere FRA (16.8) - #51, 0
5 (6). Miki Jankovic SRB (16.2) - #54, +2
6 (8). Jae Hwan Kim KOR (16.2) - #56, +3
7 (7). Liam Broady GBR (16.9) - #58, -1
8 (5). Luke Saville AUS (16.8) - #60, -6
9 (9). Lucas Pouille FRA (16.8) - #65, +4
10 (10). Vasile-Alexandru Ghilea ROU (16.9) - #67, +3

ITF Juniors U16 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Favrot comes in for Arkhipov in 10th.

1 (1). Enzo Couacaud FRA (15.7) - #77, +4
2 (2). Kyle Edmund GBR (15.9) - #104, +2
3 (3). Gianlugi Quinzi (14.8) - #120, +1
4 (4). Luke Bambridge GBR (15.9) - #139, +11
5 (5). Frederico Ferreira Silva POR (15.7) - #144, +8
6 (6). Nikola Milojevic SRB (15.4) - #170, +3
7 (7). Yoshihito Nishioka JPN (15.2) - #173, +3
8 (8). Robin Stanek CZE (15.9) - #194, 0
9 (9). Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul THA (15.6) - #214, 0
10 (-). Alxandre Favort FRA (15.8) - #230, 0

December 6th - Junior Rankings

2011-01-06T21:29:00.000-08:00

ATP U20 - The rankings for all players under 20 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Goffin ages out, Carreno-Busta enters at #10.

1 (1). Grigor Dimitrov BUL (19.5) - #92, -1
Last week: None

2 (2). Ryan Harrison USA (18.5) - #137,0
Last week: None

3 (3). Bernard Tomic AUS (18.1) - #154, -2
Last week: None

4 (4). Milos Raonic CAN (19.9) - #195, 0
Last week: None

5 (5). Andrey Kuznetsov RUS (19.8) - #222, +1
Last week: None

6 (7). Filip Krajinovic SRB (18.7) - #229, +4
Last week: None

7 (8). Axel Michon FRA (19.9) - #294, -1
Last week: None

8 (9). Facundo Arguello ARG (18.3) - #304, +1
Last week: None

9 (10). Tsung-Hua Yang TPE (19.7) - #311, 0
Last week: None

10 (-). Pablo Carreno-Busta ESP (19.4) - #328, +5
Last week: None

ATP U18 - The rankings for all players under 18 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Mitchell ages out.

1 (1). Jason Kubler AUS (17.5) - #473, +2
Last week: None

2 (2). Carlos Boluda-Purkiss ESP (17.8) - #607, -6
Last week: Chile F7 FU R16

3 (3). Suk-Young Jeong KOR (17.6) - #622, +4
Last week: None

4 (4). Guilherme Clezar BRA (17.9) - #627, +2
Last week: None

5 (5). Tiago Fernandes BRA (17.8) - #648, -4
Last week: None

6 (7). Robert Rumler CZE (16.9) - #687, 0
Last week: None

ITF Juniors - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Benjamin Mitchell AUS (18.0)
2 (3). Justin Eleveld NED (18.5)
3 (2). Denis Kudla USA (18.2)
4 (4). Facundo Arguello ARG (18.3)
5 (6). Damir Dzumhur BIH (18.5)
6 (5). James Duckworth AUS (18.8)
7 (7). Marton Fucsovics HUN (18.8)
8 (8). Carlos Boluda-Purkiss ESP (17.8)
9 (9). Jiri Vesely CZE (17.4)
10 (10). Mikhail Biryukov RUS (18.6)

ITF Juniors U17 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Halebian enters the rankings in second place.

1 (1). Mathias Bourgue FRA (16.8) - #26, 0
2 (-). Alexios Halebian USA (16.5) - #29, n/a
3 (2). Thiago Moura Monteiro BRA (16.5) - #42, 0
4 (3). Gregoire Barrere FRA (16.8) - #51, +3
5 (5). Luke Saville AUS (16.8) - #54, +5
6 (7). Miki Jankovic SRB (16.2) - #56, +9
7 (4). Liam Broady GBR (16.9) - #57, -1
8 (6). Jae Hwan Kim KOR (16.2) - #59, +2
9 (8). Lucas Pouille FRA (16.7) - #69, -6
10 (9). Vasile-Alexandru Ghilea ROU (16.9) - #70, +9

ITF Juniors U16 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Bisht dropped below the match threshold to fall out, Arkhipov comes in in his place.

1 (1). Enzo Couacaud FRA (15.7) - #81, +1
2 (2). Kyle Edmund GBR (15.9) - #106, +5
3 (3). Gianlugi Quinzi (14.8) - #121, +1
4 (4). Luke Bambridge GBR (15.8) - #150, -1
5 (5). Frederico Ferreira Silva POR (15.7) - #152, -2
6 (6). Nikola Milojevic SRB (15.4) - #173, +3
7 (8). Yoshihito Nishioka JPN (15.2) - #176, +16
8 (9). Robin Stanek CZE (15.9) - #194, +5
9 (10). Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul THA (15.6) - #214, +4
10 (-). Petr Arkhipov RUS (15.9) - #225, +10

December 6th Rankings

2011-01-06T21:00:00.001-08:00

The Davis Cup final between France and Serbia ended with the host Balkans taking the title; there were no changes in the top 10.

Riser of the Week:
Benjamin Mitchell AUS (592), Up 79
The Australian 18-year-old made a big jump after running to the finals of a futures event in Australia. He got some solid wins over Brydan Klein (319) and Dayne Kelly (371).

Dropper of the Week:
Roman Valent SUI (286), Down 51
Valent made the second round of the Salzburg challenger last year, in addition to winning three matches in the qualifying rounds. This year, he didn't opt to play, leaving him to take a large fall.

1 (1). Rafael Nadal ESP - 837.3
Last week: None

2 (2). Roger Federer SUI - 822.0
Last week: None

3 (3). Novak Djokovic SRB - 803.8
Last week: Davis Cup Final (2-0)

4 (4). Andy Murray GBR - 800.7
Last week: None

5 (5). Robin Soderling SWE - 794.4
Last week: None

6 (6). David Nalbandian ARG - 791.6
Last week: None

7 (7). Andy Roddick USA - 784.7
Last week: None

8 (8). David Ferrer ESP - 781.6
Last week: None

9 (9). Jo-Wilfried Tsonga FRA - 778.1
Last week: None

10 (10). Mikhail Youzhny RUS - 775.5
Last week: None

11 (11). Stanislas Wawrinka SUI - 774.2
Last week: None

12 (13). Tomas Berdych CZE - 772.2
Last week: None

13 (12). Fernando Verdasco ESP - 771.9
Last week: None

14 (14). Mardy Fish USA - 769.1
Last week: None

15 (15). Gael Monfils FRA - 768.4
Last week: None

16 (16). Ivo Karlovic CRO - 768.2
Last week: None

17 (17). Jurgen Melzer AUT - 766.5
Last week: None

18 (18). Marin Cilic CRO - 763.0
Last week: None

19 (19). Nicolas Almagro ESP - 761.5
Last week: None

20 (20). Lleyton Hewitt AUS - 761.1
Last week: None

21 (21). Nikolay Davydenko RUS - 756.9
Last week: None

22 (22). John Isner USA - 755.4
Last week: None

23 (23). Richard Gasquet FRA - 753.9
Last week: None

24 (24). Ernests Gulbis LAT - 752.3
Last week: None

25 (26). Philipp Kohlschreiber GER - 751.7
Last week: None

In: Philipp Kohlschreiber
Out: Gilles Simon

January 3rd - Junior Rankings

2011-01-05T10:30:00.000-08:00

ATP U20 - The rankings for all players under 20 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Raonic ages out, with Grigelis entering in the #10 spot.

1 (1). Grigor Dimitrov BUL (19.6) - #92, 0
Last week: None

2 (2). Ryan Harrison USA (18.6) - #137, 0
Last week: None

3 (3). Bernard Tomic AUS (18.1) - #154,0
Last week: None

4 (5). Andrey Kuznetsov RUS (19.8) - #222, 0
Last week: None

5 (6). Filip Krajinovic SRB (18.8) - #229, 0
Last week: None

6 (7). Facundo Arguello ARG (18.4) - #307, -2
Last week: None

7 (8). Tsung-Hua Yang TPE (19.7) - #312, -1
Last week: None

8 (9). Pablo Carreno-Busta ESP (19.4) - #328, 0
Last week: None

9 (10). Di Wu CHN (19.2) - #330, 0
Last week: None

10 (-). Laurynas Grigelis LTU (19.4) - #349, 0
Last week: None

ATP U18 - The rankings for all players under 18 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Clezar ages out, so the list drops to 6.

1 (1). Jason Kubler AUS (17.5) - #471, 0
Last week: None

2 (2). Carlos Boluda-Purkiss ESP (17.9) - #606, 0
Last week: None

3 (3). Suk-Young Jeong KOR (17.6) - #626, 0
Last week: None

4 (5). Tiago Fernandes BRA (17.8) - #653, 0
Last week: None

5 (6). Robert Rumler CZE (17.0) - #687, 0
Last week: None

6 (7). Juan Ignacio Londero ARG (17.3) - #752, 0
Last week: None

ITF Juniors - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

With a new year starting, I will ignore all players that are not eligible for 2011 junior events (ie. 1993 or later birthdates), so there's a lot of change in the top 10.

Casablanca Cup runner up Oliver Golding is among those moving into the top 10, while Carlos Boluda-Purkiss takes over at #1.

1 (7). Carlos Boluda-Purkiss ESP (17.9)
2 (8). Jiri Vesely CZE (17.4)
3 (-). Tiago Fernandes BRA (17.9)
4 (-). Roberto Carballes Baena ESP (17.7)
5 (-). Joris De Loore BEL (17.7)
6 (-). Oliver Golding GBR (17.2)
7 (-). Andres Artundeo Martinavarr ESP (17.3)
8 (-). Jannick Lupescu NED (17.4)
9 (-). Mate Delic CRO (17.6)
10 (-). Dominic Thiem AUT (17.3)

ITF Juniors U17 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Broady and Ghilea age out, while Bourgue moves back to #1

1 (2). Mathias Bourgue FRA (16.8) - #23, +2
2 (1). Alexios Halebian USA (16.5) - #26, -5
3 (3). Thiago Moura Monteiro BRA (16.5) - #38, +9
4 (4). Gregoire Barrere FRA (16.8) - #46, +5
5 (5). Miki Jankovic SRB (16.2) - #53, +1
6 (6). Jae Hwan Kim KOR (16.2) - #55, +1
7 (8). Luke Saville AUS (16.9) - #57, +3
8 (9). Lucas Pouille FRA (16.8) - #63, +4
9 (-). Enzo Couacaud FRA (15.8) - #74, +3
10 (-). Evgeny Karlovskiy RUS (16.4) - #82, +1

ITF Juniors U16 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Stanek ages out, replaced by Alcaraz.

1 (1). Enzo Couacaud FRA (15.8) - #74, +3
2 (2). Kyle Edmund GBR (15.9) - #103, +1
3 (3). Gianlugi Quinzi (14.9) - #114, +6
4 (4). Luke Bambridge GBR (15.9) - #139, 0
5 (5). Frederico Ferreira Silva POR (15.8) - #145, -1
6 (6). Nikola Milojevic SRB (15.5) - #160, +10
7 (7). Yoshihito Nishioka JPN (15.2) - #169, 0
8 (9). Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul THA (15.7) - #207, +7
9 (10). Alxandre Favort FRA (15.8) - #222, +8
10 (-). Albert Alcaraz Ivorra ESP (15.6) - #226, +2

November 29th - Junior Rankings

2010-12-30T18:07:00.001-08:00

ATP U20 - The rankings for all players under 20 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Grigor Dimitrov BUL (19.5) - #91, +7
Last week: Helsinki CH SF

2 (2). Ryan Harrison USA (18.5) - #137, +2
Last week: Helsinki CH R32

3 (3). Bernard Tomic AUS (18.0) - #152, -9
Last week: Toyota CH QF

4 (4). Milos Raonic CAN (19.9) - #195, +2
Last week: None

5 (6). Andrey Kuznetsov RUS (19.7) - #223, +7
Last week: None

6 (5). David Goffin BEL (19.9) - #225, +1
Last week: None

7 (7). Filip Krajinovic SRB (18.7) - #233, +4
Last week: None

8 (8). Axel Michon FRA (19.9) - #293, -2
Last week: None

9 (10). Facundo Arguello ARG (18.3) - #305, +23
Last week: Buenos Aires CH R16

10 (9). Tsung-Hua Yang TPE (19.6) - #311, -3
Last week: None

ATP U18 - The rankings for all players under 18 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Clezar enters the rankings in the #4 spot.

1 (1). Jason Kubler AUS (17.5) - #475, +10
Last week: None

2 (2). Carlos Boluda-Purkiss ESP (17.8) - #601, -10
Last week: Chile F6 FU R16

3 (3). Suk-Young Jeong KOR (17.6) - #626, -10
Last week: None

4 (-). Guilherme Clezar BRA (17.9) - #629, n/a
Last week: Brazil F34 FU SF

5 (4). Tiago Fernandes BRA (17.8) - #644, -2
Last week: None

6 (6). Benjamin Mitchell AUS (17.9) - #671, +4
Last week: Australia F12 FU QF

7 (5). Robert Rumler CZE (16.9) - #687, -38
Last week: Czech Republic F5 FU R32

ITF Juniors - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Benjamin Mitchell AUS (18.0)
2 (2). Denis Kudla USA (18.2)
3 (4). Justin Eleveld NED (18.5)
3 (3). Facundo Arguello ARG (18.3)
5 (5). James Duckworth AUS (18.8)
6 (6). Damir Dzumhur BIH (18.5)
7 (7). Marton Fucsovics HUN (18.8)
8 (8). Carlos Boluda-Purkiss ESP (17.8)
9 (9). Jiri Vesely CZE (17.4)
10 (10). Mikhail Biryukov RUS (18.6)

ITF Juniors U17 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Mathias Bourgue FRA (16.8) - #26, -3
2 (2). Thiago Moura Monteiro BRA (16.4) - #42, -1
3 (3). Gregoire Barrere FRA (16.7) - #54, 0
4 (5). Liam Broady GBR (16.9) - #56, +4
5 (4). Luke Saville AUS (16.8) - #59, 0
6 (6). Jae Hwan Kim KOR (16.1) - #61, 0
7 (8). Lucas Pouille FRA (16.7) - #63, +3
8 (7). Miki Jankovic SRB (16.1) - #65, 0
9 (9). Vasile-Alexandru Ghilea ROU (16.9) - #79, 0
10 (10). Enzo Couacaud FRA (15.7) - #82, 0

ITF Juniors U16 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Enzo Couacaud FRA (15.7) - #82, 0
2 (2). Kyle Edmund GBR (15.9) - #111, +10
3 (3). Gianlugi Quinzi (14.8) - #122, 0
4 (5). Luke Bambridge GBR (15.8) - #149, +4
5 (4). Frederico Ferreira Silva POR (15.6) - #150, -12
6 (7). Nikola Milojevic SRB (15.4) - #176, +3
7 (8). Ronit Singh Bisht IND (14.6) - #178, +7
8 (6). Yoshihito Nishioka JPN (15.1) - #192, -23
9 (9). Robin Stanek CZE (15.9) - #199, +1
10 (10). Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul THA (15.6) - #218, +3

November 29th Rankings

2010-12-30T17:30:00.000-08:00

The final ATP tour event of the year took place indoors in London, as the top 8 ATP ranked players met in the World Tour Finals. At the end of the day, it was the dream matchup, Federer and Nadal, with the elder Swiss proving that any rumours of his demise have been greatly exaggerated, as he won the tournament. Despite the top players being in action, there were no positional changes in the top 10.

Winners:

ATP Finals
#2 Roger Federer SUI (2)
Round Robin 1 #7 David Ferrer ESP (8)
Round Robin 2 #5 Andy Murray GBR (4)
Round Robin 3 #4 Robin Soderling SWE (5)
Semifinal #3 Novak Djokovic SRB (3)
Final #1 Rafael Nadal ESP (1)
Average Opponent Rank 4.2

Federer had an excellent week in London, and combined with his win in the Australian Open, bookended 2010 very well. He didn't drop a set it his first four matches, sweeping the round robin and then handily beating Novak Djokovic in the semifinals. He split sets in the final against Nadal, but came on strong in the third to win 6-1 and take the title.

Challengers
Buenos Aires: #6 Diego Junqueira ARG (154) d. Juan Pablo Brzezicki ARG (196)
Helsinki: Richard Berankis LTU (70) d. #2 Michal Przysiezny POL (119)
Toyota: #3 Tatsuma Ito JPN (273) d. #4 Yuichi Sugita JPN (248)

Riser of the Week (top 100):
Richard Berankis LTU (70), Up 11
The young Lithuanian won the Helsinki challenger, getting good results against Teymuraz Gabashvili (104), Edouard Roger-Vasselin (111) and Grigor Dimitrov (91)

Riser of the Week (other):
Diego Junqueira ARG (154), Up 25
Junqueira won the Buenos Aires challenger, taking out a series of his fellow Argentinians, including Carlos Berlocq (80) and Brian Dabul (114)

Dropper of the Week (top 100):
Nikolay Davydenko RUS (21), Down 3
Davydenko had a spectacular run in London last year, beating Nadal, Federer and del Potro to take the title. This year, he has struggled with poor form and injuries, meaning that he didn't qualify this year, thus falling even further fromthe top players.

Dropper of the Week (other):
Uladzimir Ignatik BLR (290), Down 46
Ignatik won the Toyota challenger last year, but was inactive this week, and without that victory fell to the edge of the top 300.

1 (1). Rafael Nadal ESP - 837.9
Last week: ATP Finals F (l. Federer)

2 (2). Roger Federer SUI - 822.1
Last week: ATP Finals W

3 (3). Novak Djokovic SRB - 802.7
Last week: ATP Finals SF (l. Federer)

4 (4). Andy Murray GBR - 800.9
Last week: ATP Finals SF (l. Murray)

5 (5). Robin Soderling SWE - 794.6
Last week: ATP Finals RR (1-2)

6 (6). David Nalbandian ARG - 791.7
Last week: None

7 (7). Andy Roddick USA - 785.0
Last week: ATP Finals RR (0-3)

8 (8). David Ferrer ESP - 782.3
Last week: ATP Finals RR (1-2)

9 (9). Jo-Wilfried Tsonga FRA - 778.3

Last week: None

10 (10). Mikhail Youzhny RUS - 775.7
Last week: None

11 (11). Stanislas Wawrinka SUI - 774.4
Last week: None

12 (14). Fernando Verdasco ESP - 772.0
Last week: None

13 (12). Tomas Berdych CZE - 772.0
Last week: ATP Finals RR (1-2)

14 (13). Mardy Fish USA - 769.3
Last week: None

15 (15). Gael Monfils FRA - 768.7
Last week: None

16 (16). Ivo Karlovic CRO - 768.2
Last week: None

17 (17). Jurgen Melzer AUT - 766.7
Last week: None

18 (19). Marin Cilic CRO - 763.2
Last week: None

19 (20). Nicolas Almagro ESP - 761.5
Last week: None

20 (21). Lleyton Hewitt AUS - 761.2
Last week: None

21 (18). Nikolay Davydenko RUS - 757.3
Last week: None

22 (22). John Isner USA - 755.4
Last week: None

23 (23). Richard Gasquet FRA - 754.2
Last week: None

24 (25). Ernests Gulbis LAT - 752.5
Last week: None

25 (24). Gilles Simon FRA - 752.3
Last week: None

In: None
Out: None

November 22nd - Junior Rankings

2010-12-30T16:16:00.001-08:00

November 22nd Rankings

2010-12-30T14:17:00.000-08:00

With no ATP level event this week, no changes for any top 10 player.

Challengers
Bratislava: Martin Klizan SVK (184) d. Stefan Koubek AUT (123)
Cancun: #2 Pere Riba ESP (109) d. Carlos Berlocq ARG(78)
Champaign-Urbana: #6 Alex Bogomolov Jr. USA (185) d. Amer Delic BIH (n/a)
Salzburg: #8 Conor Niland IRL (177) d. Jerzy Janowicz POL (170)

Riser of the Week (top 100):
Robert Kendrick USA (93), Up 11
Kendrick, who had a good result last week, didn't play this week, but dropped a first round loss from last year's Champaign challenger, against Jamie Baker (288), moving him into the top 100.

Riser of the Week (other):
Martin Klizan SVK (183), Up 31
Klizan had a strong week in Bratislava, taking a hometown title. He beat young American star Ryan Harrison (139) and Alexander Kudryavtsev (176) before beating Stefan Koubek (123) in the final.

Dropper of the Week (top 100):
Michael Berrer GER (69), Down 11
Berrer won the title in Bratislava last year, but opted not to defend this year, falling down the rankings after being inactive this week.

Dropper of the Week (other):
Takao Suzuki JPN (359), Down 71
The Japanese veteran, still active at 34, lost a big chunk of his ranking when a tournament win from last year, at Yokohama, dropped off.

1 (1). Rafael Nadal ESP - 829.0
Last week: None

2 (2). Roger Federer SUI - 813.1
Last week: None

3 (3). Novak Djokovic SRB - 801.8
Last week: None

4 (4). Andy Murray GBR - 799.3
Last week: None

5 (5). Robin Soderling SWE - 793.7
Last week: None

6 (6). David Nalbandian ARG - 790.6
Last week: None

7 (7). Andy Roddick USA - 784.5
Last week: None

8 (8). David Ferrer ESP - 783.7
Last week: None

9 (9). Jo-Wilfried Tsonga FRA - 776.9
Last week: None

10 (10). Mikhail Youzhny RUS - 774.7
Last week: None

11 (12). Stanislas Wawrinka SUI - 772.7
Last week: None

12 (11). Tomas Berdych CZE - 772.7
Last week: None

13 (13). Mardy Fish USA - 768.2
Last week: None

14 (14). Fernando Verdasco ESP - 768.1
Last week: None

15 (15). Gael Monfils FRA - 767.5
Last week: None

16 (16). Ivo Karlovic CRO - 767.1
Last week: None

17 (17). Jurgen Melzer AUT - 764.9
Last week: None

18 (18). Nikolay Davydenko RUS - 764.5
Last week: None

19 (19). Marin Cilic CRO - 763.0
Last week: None

20 (20). Nicolas Almagro ESP - 760.3
Last week: None

21 (21). Lleyton Hewitt AUS - 759.4
Last week: None

22 (22). John Isner USA - 754.4
Last week: None

23 (23). Richard Gasquet FRA - 753.4
Last week: None

24 (24). Gilles Simon FRA - 751.1
Last week: None

25 (25). Ernests Gulbis LAT - 751.1
Last week: None

In: None
Out: None

November 15th - Junior Rankings

2010-11-20T07:53:00.001-08:00

ATP U20 - The rankings for all players under 20 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Grigor Dimitrov BUL (19.5) - #99, +2
Last week: Aachen CH R32

2 (2). Bernard Tomic AUS (18.0) - #143, +4
Last week: None

3 (3). Ryan Harrison USA (18.4) - #151, +6
Last week: None

4 (4). Milos Raonic CAN (19.8) - #193, -5
Last week: None

5 (5). David Goffin BEL (19.9) - #224, -2
Last week: Loughborough CH R32

6 (6). Andrey Kuznetsov RUS (19.7) - #234, +5
Last week: None

7 (7). Filip Krajinovic SRB (18.7) - #248, +15
Last week: None

8 (9). Axel Michon FRA (19.9) - #295, +4
Last week: Guayaquil Q R2

9 (8). Tsung-Hua Yang TPE (19.6) - #299, -1
Last week: None

10 (10). Di Wu CHN (19.1) - #329, +3
Last week: None

ATP U18 - The rankings for all players under 18 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Jason Kubler AUS (17.5) - #504, 0
Last week: None

2 (2). Carlos Boluda-Purkiss ESP (17.8) - #590, +2
Last week: None

3 (3). Suk-Young Jeong KOR (17.6) - #618, 0
Last week: None

4 (4). Tiago Fernandes BRA (17.8) - #639, -1
Last week: None

5 (5). Robert Rumler CZE (16.9) - #679, +1
Last week: None

6 (-). Benjamin Mitchell AUS (17.9) - #694, 0
Last week: Australia F11 FU R16

ITF Juniors - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Benjamin Mitchell AUS (17.9)
2 (2). Denis Kudla USA (18.2)
3 (4). Facundo Arguello ARG (18.2)
4 (3). Justin Eleveld NED (18.4)
5 (5). James Duckworth AUS (18.8)
6 (6). Damir Dzumhur BIH (18.5)
7 (7). Marton Fucsovics HUN (18.7)
8 (8). Carlos Boluda-Purkiss ESP (17.8)
9 (9). Jiri Vesely CZE (17.3)
10 (10). Mikhail Biryukov RUS (18.5)

ITF Juniors U17 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Halebian drops out, while Couacoud takes a big drop, almost falling out out of the top 10.

1 (1). Mathias Bourgue FRA (16.8) - #22, 0
2 (2). Thiago Moura Monteiro BRA (16.4) - #41, +1
3 (4). Gregoire Barrere FRA (16.7) - #54, -1
4 (5). Luke Saville AUS (16.7) - #58, +1
5 (7). Liam Broady GBR (16.8) - #60, +2
6 (8). Jae Hwan Kim KOR (16.1) - #61, +2
7 (9). Miki Jankovic SRB (16.1) - #65, +2
8 (10). Lucas Pouille FRA (16.7) - #67, +1
9 (-). Vasile-Alexandru Ghilea ROU (16.8) - #78, +1
10 (6). Enzo Couacaud FRA (15.7) - #83, -22

ITF Juniors U16 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Enzo Couacaud FRA (15.7) - #83, -22
2 (2). Kyle Edmund GBR (15.8) - #120, +1
3 (3). Gianlugi Quinzi (14.7) - #122, +1
4 (4). Frederico Ferreira Silva POR (15.6) - #136, -1
5 (5). Luke Bambridge GBR (15.8) - #149, +1
6 (6). Yoshihito Nishioka JPN (15.1) - #173, -4
7 (8). Nikola Milojevic SRB (15.4) - #178, +8
8 (7). Ronit Singh Bisht IND (14.6) - #185, -1
9 (9). Robin Stanek CZE (15.8) - #200, +1
10 (10). Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul THA (15.6) - #232, -7

November 15th Rankings

2010-11-16T18:23:00.001-08:00

The last Masters Series event of 2010 was won by Robin Soderling, who moved up once place to 5th, shifting down David Nalbandian. The only other change in the top 10 came from Andy Roddick, who made the QFs and moved up to #7, past Ferrer.

Winners:

Paris
#4 Robin Soderling SWE (5)
1st round Bye
2nd round Gilles Simon FRA (24)
3rd round Stanislas Wawrinka SUI (12)
Quarters #8 Andy Roddick USA (7)
Semis Michael Llodra FRA (34)
Final #12 Gael Monfils FRA (15)
Average Opponent Rank 18.4

Soderling's first career Masters title was well-earned, though he managed to avoid all of the really top players. Still, straight set wins over Simon and Wawrinka, two of the most dangerous unseeded players, along with twice crushing the hopes of the home crowd on the weekend, including a third-set TB win over Llodra, were really impressive.

Challengers
Aachen: #1 Dustin Brown GER (159) d. #4 Igor Sijsling NED (156)
Guayaquil: Paul Capdeville CHI (210) d. Diego Junqueira ARG (175)
Knoxville: #3 Kei Nishikori JPN (44) d. #6 Robert Kendrick USA (104)
Loughborough: Matthias Bachinger GER (187) d. Frederik Nielsen DEN (215)
Ortisei: #1 Michal Przysiezny POL (115) d. Lukas Lacko SVK (72)

Riser of the Week (top 100):
Michael Llodra FRA (34), Up 7
Llodra was the man of the week in Paris, getting a great semifinal result, beating John Isner (22), Nikolay Davydenko (18) and Novak Djokovic (3) along the way, before losing a heartbreaker to Soderling in the semis. He lost first round last year, and so made a big move upwards.

Riser of the Week (other):
Matthias Bachinger GER (187), Up 42
Bachinger, who closed last year with back-to-back first round challenger losses, had a better fall this year, getting a tournament win in Loughborough, Britain. This included beating home player James Ward (185), and taking out Frederik Nielsen (215) in the final.

Dropper of the Week (top 100):
Andreas Seppi ITA (66), Down 8
The Italian was forced through Paris qualifying this season, unlike last year, when he directly entered and won a match. He lost in the first qualy round to Albert Ramos-Vinolas (140), which sent him down a few spots.

Dropper of the Week (other):
David Guez (204), Down 28
Last year, Guez qualified for the Paris Masters, and then won a match in the main draw, surprising Stanislas Wawrinka (12). This year, he headed to the Loughborough challenger in Britain, but lost in the first round to Matwe Middelkoop (364), dropping out of the top 200.

1 (1). Rafael Nadal ESP - 830.0
Last week: None

2 (2). Roger Federer SUI - 814.1
Last week: Paris SF (l. Monfils)

3 (3). Novak Djokovic SRB - 802.8
Last week: Paris R16 (l. Llodra)

4 (4). Andy Murray GBR - 800.3
Last week: Paris QF (l. Monfils)

5 (6). Robin Soderling SWE - 794.9
Last week: Paris W

6 (5). David Nalbandian ARG - 791.6
Last week: Paris R32 (l. Murray)

7 (8). Andy Roddick USA - 785.5
Last week: Paris QF (l. Soderling)

8 (7). David Ferrer ESP - 784.7
Last week: Paris R16 (l. Melzer)

9 (9). Jo-Wilfried Tsonga FRA - 777.7
Last week: None

10 (10). Mikhail Youzhny RUS - 775.7
Last week: Paris R32 (l. Gulbis)

11 (11). Tomas Berdych CZE - 773.7
Last week: Paris R16 (l. Davydenko)

12 (12). Stanislas Wawrinka SUI - 773.7
Last week: Paris R16 (l. Soderling)

13 (13). Mardy Fish USA - 769.6
Last week: None

14 (14). Fernando Verdasco ESP - 769.2
Last week: Paris R16 (l. Monfils)

15 (16). Gael Monfils FRA - 768.4
Last week: Paris F (l. Soderling)

16 (15). Ivo Karlovic CRO - 768.1
Last week: None

17 (17). Jurgen Melzer AUT - 766.2
Last week: Paris QF (l. Federer)

18 (19). Nikolay Davydenko RUS - 765.9
Last week: Paris QF (l. Llodra)

19 (18). Marin Cilic CRO - 764.2
Last week: Paris R16 (l. Murray)

20 (20). Nicolas Almagro ESP - 761.2
Last week: Paris R32 (l. Stepanek)

21 (21). Lleyton Hewitt AUS - 760.4
Last week: None

22 (22). John Isner USA - 755.6
Last week: Paris R32 (l. Llodra)

23 (23). Richard Gasquet FRA - 754.5
Last week: Paris R32 (l. Federer)

24 (24). Gilles Simon FRA - 752.3
Last week: Paris R32 (l. Soderling)

25 (26). Ernests Gulbis LAT - 752.0
Last week: Paris R16 (l. Roddick)

In: Ernests Gulbis
Out: Philipp Kohlschreiber

November 8th - Junior Rankings

2010-11-10T18:37:00.001-08:00

ATP U20 - The rankings for all players under 20 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Goffin's final in Israel moves him up a couple of places, while Jerzy Janowicz ages out, putting Di Wu in in 10th place.

1 (1). Grigor Dimitrov BUL (19.4) - #101, -2
Last week: Eckental CH R32

2 (2). Bernard Tomic AUS (18.0) - #147, -3
Last week: None

3 (3). Ryan Harrison USA (18.4) - #157, +8
Last week: Charlottesville CH R16

4 (4). Milos Raonic CAN (19.8) - #188, -2
Last week: Valencia Q R1

5 (7). David Goffin BEL (19.9) - #222, +20
Last week: Israel F4 FU F

6 (6). Andrey Kuznetsov RUS (19.7) - #239, -10
Last week: Astana CH R32

7 (8). Filip Krajinovic SRB (18.7) - #263, +8
Last week: None

8 (9). Tsung-Hua Yang TPE (19.6) - #298, +6
Last week: None

9 (10). Axel Michon FRA (19.8) - #299, +6
Last week: Medellin CH R32

10 (-). Di Wu CHN (19.1) - #322, +4
Last week: None

ATP U18 - The rankings for all players under 18 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Jason Kubler AUS (17.4) - #504, +1
Last week: None

2 (2). Carlos Boluda-Purkiss ESP (17.8) - #592, +7
Last week: Turkey F14 FU QR1

3 (3). Suk-Young Jeong KOR (17.5) - #618, -1
Last week: None

4 (4). Tiago Fernandes BRA (17.7) - #638, +12
Last week: Brazil F31 FU QF

5 (5). Robert Rumler CZE (16.9) - #680, -14
Last week: Greece F4 FU R32

ITF Juniors - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Benjamin Mitchell AUS (17.9)
2 (2). Denis Kudla USA (18.2)
3 (4). Justin Eleveld NED (18.4)
4 (3). Facundo Arguello ARG (18.2)
5 (5). James Duckworth AUS (18.8)
6 (6). Damir Dzumhur BIH (18.4)
7 (7). Marton Fucsovics HUN (18.7)
8 (8). Carlos Boluda-Purkiss ESP (17.8)
9 (9). Jiri Vesely CZE (17.3)
10 (11). Mikhail Biryukov RUS (18.5)

ITF Juniors U17 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Mathias Bourgue FRA (16.8) - #22, 0
2 (2). Thiago Moura Monteiro BRA (16.4) - #42, +1
3 (8). Alexios Halebian USA (16.4) - #43, +23
4 (3). Gregoire Barrere FRA (16.7) - #53, -6
5 (10). Luke Saville AUS (16.7) - #59, +11
6 (5). Enzo Couacaud FRA (15.7) - #61, +1
7 (4). Liam Broady GBR (16.8) - #62, -2
8 (7). Jae Hwan Kim KOR (16.1) - #63, +2
9 (6). Miki Jankovic SRB (16.1) - #67, -4
10 (9). Lucas Pouille FRA (16.7) - #68, 0

ITF Juniors U16 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Enzo Couacaud FRA (15.7) - #61, +1
2 (3). Kyle Edmund GBR (15.8) - #121, +10
3 (2). Gianlugi Quinzi (14.7) - #123, +3
4 (4). Frederico Ferreira Silva POR (15.6) - #135, +2
5 (6). Luke Bambridge GBR (15.8) - #150, +6
6 (7). Yoshihito Nishioka JPN (15.1) - #169, +4
7 (8). Ronit Singh Bisht IND (14.6) - #184, -1
8 (9). Nikola Milojevic SRB (15.4) - #186, +3
9 (10). Robin Stanek CZE (15.8) - #201, +5
10 (-). Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul THA (15.6) - #225, +37

November 8th Rankings

2010-11-09T20:38:00.000-08:00

The story of the week saw Roger Federer reclaim the #2 ranking for the first time since mid-August. He got the spot back by winning the Basel final, beating Novak Djokovic to send the Serb down to #2. The bottom of the top 10 also sees a change, with Tsonga leapfrogging Youzhny into 9th.

Winners:

Basel
#1 Roger Federer (18)
1st round Alexandr Dolgopolov UKR (50)
2nd round Janko Tipsarevic SRB (46)
Quarters Radek Stepanek CZE (42)
Semis #4 Andy Roddick USA (8)
Final #2 Novak Djokovic SRB (3)
Average Opponent Rank 29.8

Valencia
#4 David Ferrer ESP (7)
1st round Guillermo Garcia-Lopez ESP (35)
2nd round Teymuraz Gabashvili RUS (104)
Quarters Potito Starace ITA (55)
Semis #2 Robin Soderling SWE (6)
Final Marcel Granollers ESP (68)
Average Opponent Rank 53.6

Federer reclaimed his home title in Basel, making the final without dropping a set, including handily beating Roddick, recording his 20th win over the American. He looked a little vulnerable after losing the second set of the final to Nole, but came back strongly in the third, to the delight of the crowd.

Another popular home winner was David Ferrer, who took the title in Valencia. He got fortunate in the final, as lucky loser Marcel Granollers managed to advance, rather than one of the seeds in that part of the draw. Still, Ferrer had a tough challenge in the in-form Garcia-Lopez and took an excellent win over Robin Soderling in the semis.

Challengers
Astana: #5 Ivan Dodig CRO (102) d. #4 Igor Kunitsyn RUS (117)
Charlottesville: #8 Robert Kendrick USA (110) d. Michael Shabaz USA (n/a)
Eckental: Igor Sijsling NED (167) d. Ruben Bemelmans BEL (172)
Medellin: Marcos Daniel BRA (143) d. Juan-Sebastian Cabal COL (271)

Riser of the Week (top 100):
Potito Starace ITA (62), Up 17
Slim pickings in terms of risers this week, so it's Starace, who beat Victor Hanescu (57) and Pablo Cuevas (62) before losing to eventual champ Ferrer, who gets the nod.

Riser of the Week (other):
Chris Guccione AUS (218), Up 61
The big Aussie has had a disasterous year, needing to enter a futures event last month to get his ranking back up, after starting the year in the top 200. He makes a nice move up this week by making the semis in Charlottesville, beating local UVirginia favourite Somdev Devvarman (160) and his countryman Peter Luczak (153) along the way.

Dropper of the Week (top 100):
Nikolay Davydenko RUS (19), Down 4
Davydenko didn't have a horrible week in Valencia, making the quarters before losing to Gilles Simon (24), but he dropped a semifinal from last year that saw him beat Garcia-Lopez, Alejandro Falla (82) and Juan Monaco (37).

Dropper of the Week (other):
Kevin Kim USA (310), Down 58
The American veteran's disaster year continued, as he fell out of the top 300 due to a first round loss in Charlottesville. He won the title there last year, so it caused a huge drop in his rating to lose that result.

1 (1). Rafael Nadal ESP - 828.6
Last week: None

2 (3). Roger Federer SUI - 811.2
Last week: Basel W

3 (2). Novak Djokovic SRB - 807.0
Last week: Basel F

4 (4). Andy Murray GBR - 797.1
Last week: Valencia R16 (l. Monaco)

5 (5). David Nalbandian ARG - 793.6
Last week: Basel QF (l. Roddick)

6 (6). Robin Soderling SWE - 791.2
Last week: Valencia SF (l. Ferrer)

7 (7). David Ferrer ESP - 784.8
Last week: Valencia W

8 (8). Andy Roddick USA - 784.8
Last week: Basel SF (l. Federer)

9 (10). Jo-Wilfried Tsonga FRA - 778.6
Last week: None

10 (9). Mikhail Youzhny RUS - 776.7
Last week: None

11 (11). Tomas Berdych CZE - 771.9
Last week: Basel R32 (l. Kamke)

12 (12). Stanislas Wawrinka SUI - 770.3
Last week: Valencia R16 (l. Monfils)

13 (14). Mardy Fish USA - 769.3
Last week: None

14 (13). Fernando Verdasco ESP - 768.8
Last week: Valencia R16 (l. Simon)

15 (20). Ivo Karlovic CRO - 767.3
Last week: None

16 (18). Gael Monfils FRA - 765.5
Last week: Valencia QF (l. Soderling)

17 (17). Jurgen Melzer AUT - 764.6
Last week: None

18 (16). Marin Cilic CRO - 764.2
Last week: Basel R16 (l. Nalbandian)

19 (15). Nikolay Davydenko RUS - 763.8
Last week: Valencia QF (l. Simon)

20 (19). Nicolas Almagro ESP - 762.5
Last week: Valencia R32 (l. Gimeno-Traver)

21 (21). Lleyton Hewitt AUS - 759.9
Last week: None

22 (22). John Isner USA - 755.8
Last week: Basel R16 (l. Haase)

23 (23). Richard Gasquet FRA - 753.8
Last week: Basel QF (l. Troicki)

24 (24). Gilles Simon FRA - 752.1
Last week: Valencia SF (l. Granollers)

25 (25). Philipp Kohlschreiber GER - 751.1
Last week: Valencia R32 (l. Chela)

In: None
Out: None

November 1st - Junior Rankings

2010-11-06T09:17:00.000-07:00

ATP U20 - The rankings for all players under 20 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Grigor Dimitrov BUL (19.4) - #99, +1
Last week: None

2 (2). Bernard Tomic AUS (18.0) - #144, -1
Last week: None

3 (3). Ryan Harrison USA (18.4) - #165, 0
Last week: None

4 (4). Milos Raonic CAN (19.8) - #186, +3
Last week: None

5 (5). Jerzy Janowicz POL (19.9) - #202, -2
Last week: None

6 (6). Andrey Kuznetsov RUS (19.7) - #229, -9
Last week: St. Petersburg R32

7 (7). David Goffin BEL (19.9) - #242, 0
Last week: Montpellier Q R2

8 (8). Filip Krajinovic SRB (18.6) - #271, -4
Last week: None

9 (10). Tsung-Hua Yang TPE (19.6) - #304, +2
Last week: None

10 (9). Axel Michon FRA (19.8) - #305, -34
Last week: Sao Paulo CH QR1

ATP U18 - The rankings for all players under 18 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Jason Kubler AUS (17.4) - #505, -6
Last week: Spain F38 FU R32

2 (2). Carlos Boluda-Purkiss ESP (17.7) - #599, -7
Last week: Turkey F13 FU R32

3 (3). Suk-Young Jeong KOR (17.5) - #617, +1
Last week: None

4 (4). Tiago Fernandes BRA (17.7) - #650, -28
Last week: Sao Paulo CH R16

5 (-). Robert Rumler CZE (16.9) - #666, -31
Last week: Greece F3 FU R32

ITF Juniors - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Benjamin Mitchell AUS (17.9)
2 (2). Denis Kudla USA (18.2)
3 (3). Facundo Arguello ARG (18.2)
4 (4). Justin Eleveld NED (18.4)
5 (5). James Duckworth AUS (18.8)
6 (6). Damir Dzumhur BIH (18.4)
7 (8). Marton Fucsovics HUN (18.7)
8 (9). Carlos Boluda-Purkiss ESP (17.8)
9 (10). Jiri Vesely CZE (17.3)
10 (7). Jason Kubler AUS (17.4)

ITF Juniors U17 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Mathias Bourgue FRA (16.7) - #22, 0
2 (2). Thiago Moura Monteiro BRA (16.4) - #43, -10
3 (3). Gregoire Barrere FRA (16.7) - #47, +3
4 (4). Liam Broady GBR (16.8) - #60, +2
5 (5). Enzo Couacaud FRA (15.6) - #62, +1
6 (10). Miki Jankovic SRB (16.1) - #63, +11
7 (7). Jae Hwan Kim KOR (16.1) - #65, +1
8 (6). Alexios Halebian USA (16.4) - #66, -2
9 (8). Lucas Pouille FRA (16.6) - #68, +3
10 (-). Luke Saville AUS (16.7) - #70, n/a

ITF Juniors U16 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Enzo Couacaud FRA (15.6) - #62, +1
2 (2). Gianlugi Quinzi (14.7) - #126, -1
3 (3). Kyle Edmund GBR (15.8) - #131, +3
4 (4). Frederico Ferreira Silva POR (15.6) - #137, 0
5 (5). Daniel Masur GER (15.9) - #149, 0
6 (6). Luke Bambridge GBR (15.7) - #156, -5
7 (7). Yoshihito Nishioka JPN (15.1) - #173, 0
8 (8). Ronit Singh Bisht IND (14.5) - #183, +2
9 (9). Nikola Milojevic SRB (15.3) - #189, +4
10 (10). Robin Stanek CZE (15.8) - #206, -10

November 1st Rankings

2010-11-06T09:03:00.000-07:00

Another week that doesn't affect the top players much, no changes in the top 14 after three smaller events.

Winners:

Montpellier
#3 Gael Monfils FRA (18)
1st round Bye
2nd round Steve Darcis BEL (80)
Quarters #5 John Isner USA (22)
Semis #2 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga FRA (10)
Final #4 Ivan Ljubicic CRO (30)
Average Opponent Rank 35.5

St. Petersburg
Mikhail Kukushkin KAZ (62)
1st round #7 Jeremy Chardy FRA (45)
2nd round Teimuraz Gabashvili RUS (113)
Quarters #3 Janko Tipsarevic SRB (48)
Semis Illya Marchenko UKR (84)
Final #1 Mikhail Youzhny RUS (9)
Average Opponent Rank 59.8

Vienna
#1 Jurgen Melzer AUT (17)
1st round Bye
2nd round Lukasz Kubot POL (96)
Quarters Walkover
Semis #3 Nicolas Almagro ESP (19)
Final Andreas Haider-Maurer AUT (143)
Average Opponent Rank 86

Monfils had a difficult run to the Montpellier title, especially given that this was only a 250 event. He needed three sets in each of his last three wins, but pulled it out in each one to get a set of solid top-30 victories.

The Russian-born Kukushkin claimed a big win for Kazakh tennis as he shocked the field in St. Petersburg to win the title. His path to the final was solid, taking out good players in Chardy and Tipsarevic, but he didn't seem to have much chance in the final against Youzhny. However, Kukushkin won that match in straights, a huge breakthrough against a top 10 player.

The hometown player everyone was talking about in Vienna was the returning Thomas Muster, but the home crowd ended up with two other heroes to celebrate in making the final, as Melzer played lucky loser AHM. Melzer was fortunate to have both a bye and a walkover, and had only one really tough match, beating Almagro in straights, but he did need to survive a second set TB for the match in the final.

Challengers
Sao Paulo: Marcos Daniel BRA (163) d. #1 Thomaz Bellucci BRA (36)

Riser of the Week (top 100):
Mikhail Kukushkin KAZ (62), Up 17
No surprise that the first-time titlest takes another big jump up, a major breakthrough for him after spending the year hovering around the 80-110 range.

Riser of the Week (other):
Andreas-Haider Maurer AUT (143), Up 26
The lucky loser finalist in Vienna retired against Marsel Ilhan (110) in the last qualy round (though it's likely he did this because he knew he'd get an LL spot), then beat his countryman Muster, before taking out Andreas Seppi (56) and Marin Cilic (16) on his way to the final.

Dropper of the Week (top 100):
Sergiy Stakhovsky UKR (70), Down 14
Last year, Stakhovsky qualified for the main draw in St. Petersburg, then promptly marched his way to the final, including taking out Marat Safin along the way. This season, he came in as the #2 seed, but lost in the first round to Benjamin Becker (53)

Dropper of the Week (other):
Dominik Hrbaty SVK (241), Down 66
The 32-year-old Hrbaty, formerly a top 20 player, has had a miserable year, and surely is not far from retiring. He has been playing on the challenger and qualifying circuits, and has not won a match since March. His last outing was in Wimbledon qualies, before losing in the first round of qualies in Vienna this week. He also dropped a couple of wins from Vienna last year, leaving him out of the top 200.

1 (1). Rafael Nadal ESP - 828.8
Last week: None

2 (2). Novak Djokovic SRB - 809.3
Last week: None

3 (3). Roger Federer SUI - 807.8
Last week: None

4 (4). Andy Murray GBR - 801.9
Last week: None

5 (5). David Nalbandian ARG - 795.0
Last week: Montpellier R16 (l. Simon)

6 (6). Robin Soderling SWE - 790.7
Last week: None

7 (7). David Ferrer ESP - 783.0
Last week: None

8 (8). Andy Roddick USA - 782.6
Last week: None

9 (9). Mikhail Youzhny RUS - 779.6
Last week: St. Petersburg F (l. Kukushkin)

10 (10). Jo-Wilfried Tsonga FRA - 776.7
Last week: Montpellier SF (l. Monfils)

11 (11). Tomas Berdych CZE - 773.3
Last week: None

12 (12). Stanislas Wawrinka SUI - 772.1
Last week: None

13 (13). Fernando Verdasco ESP - 770.8
Last week: None

14 (14). Mardy Fish USA - 770.0
Last week: None

15 (16). Nikolay Davydenko RUS - 766.4
Last week: Montpellier QF (l. Montanes)

16 (15). Marin Cilic CRO - 765.4
Last week: Vienna QF (l. Haider-Maurer)

17 (17). Jurgen Melzer AUT - 764.7
Last week: Vienna W

18 (21). Gael Monfils FRA - 763.6
Last week: Montepellier W

19 (19). Nicolas Almagro ESP - 763.3
Last week: Vienna SF (l. Melzer)

20 (18). Ivo Karlovic CRO - 762.4
Last week: None

21 (20). Lleyton Hewitt AUS - 760.2
Last week: None

22 (22). John Isner USA - 756.8
Last week: Montpellier QF (l. Monfils)

23 (23). Richard Gasquet FRA - 753.9
Last week: Monpellier R16 (l. Nieminen)

24 (26). Gilles Simon FRA - 751.0
Last week: Montpellier QF (l. Tsonga)

25 (25). Philipp Kohlschreiber GER - 750.6
Last week: Vienna QF (W/O)

In: Gilles Simon
Out: Marcos Baghdatis

October 25th - Junior Rankings

2010-11-01T20:06:00.001-07:00

ATP U20 - The rankings for all players under 20 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

Dimitrov's run to the Orleans final sees him crack into the top 100.

1 (1). Grigor Dimitrov BUL (19.4) - #100, +18
Last week: Orleans CH F

2 (2). Bernard Tomic AUS (18.0) - #143, 0
Last week: None

3 (3). Ryan Harrison USA (18.4) - #165, +1
Last week: Calabsas CH QF

4 (5). Milos Raonic CAN (19.8) - #189, +3
Last week: None

5 (4). Jerzy Janowicz POL (19.9) - #200, -13
Last week: Belarus F4 F

6 (6). Andrey Kuznetsov RUS (19.6) - #220, +8
Last week: Moscow R32 (Q)

7 (8). David Goffin BEL (19.8) - #242, +18
Last week: None

8 (7). Filip Krajinovic SRB (18.6) - #267, -12
Last week: Stockholm QR1

9 (9). Axel Michon FRA (19.8) - #271, +26
Last week: None

10 (10). Tsung-Hua Yang TPE (19.5) - #306, +5
Last week: Seoul CH R16

ATP U18 - The rankings for all players under 18 years old in ATP level matches:

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Jason Kubler AUS (17.4) - #499, +23
Last week: Spain F27 SF

2 (2). Carlos Boluda-Purkiss ESP (17.7) - #592, +3
Last week: Croatia F7 R32

3 (3). Suk-Young Jeong KOR (17.5) - #618, -15
Last week: Seoul CH QR1

4 (4). Tiago Fernandes BRA (17.7) - #622, +4
Last week: None

ITF Juniors - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Benjamin Mitchell AUS (17.9)
2 (2). Denis Kudla USA (18.2)
3 (3). Facundo Arguello ARG (18.2)
4 (4). Justin Eleveld NED (18.4)
5 (6). James Duckworth AUS (18.7)
6 (7). Damir Dzumhur BIH (18.4)
7 (5). Jason Kubler AUS (17.4)
8 (8). Marton Fucsovics HUN (18.7)
9 (9). Carlos Boluda-Purkiss ESP (17.7)
10 (10). Jiri Vesely CZE (17.3)

ITF Juniors U17 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Mathias Bourgue FRA (16.7) - #22, +1
2 (2). Thiago Moura Monteiro BRA (16.4) - #33, +9
3 (3). Gregoire Barrere FRA (16.6) - #50, +1
4 (4). Liam Broady GBR (16.7) - #62, -1
5 (6). Enzo Couacaud FRA (15.6) - #63, +2
6 (5). Alexios Halebian USA (16.3) - #64, 0
7 (9). Jae Hwan Kim KOR (16.0) - #66, +8
8 (8). Lucas Pouille FRA (16.6) - #71, 0
9 (10). Karue Sell BRA (16.9) - #73, +2
10 (7). Miki Jankovic SRB (16.0) - #74, -4

ITF Juniors U16 - The rankings for all qualifying ITF junior level players.

(the bracket number after nationality is age)

1 (1). Enzo Couacaud FRA (15.6) - #63, +2
2 (2). Gianlugi Quinzi (14.7) - #125, +2
3 (3). Kyle Edmund GBR (15.8) - #134, +4
4 (4). Frederico Ferreira Silva POR (15.6) - #137, +4
5 (5). Daniel Masur GER (15.9) - #149, +4
6 (6). Luke Bambridge GBR (15.7) - #151, +7
7 (9). Yoshihito Nishioka JPN (15.0) - #173, +22
8 (7). Ronit Singh Bisht IND (14.5) - #185, +5
9 (8). Nikola Milojevic SRB (15.3) - #193, 0
10 (10). Robin Stanek CZE (15.8) - #196, +3