Hard Court Singles Rankings: 22 August 2011

With the U.S. Open a mere seven days away (and qualifying starting tomorrow!), it’s time to update my hard-court singles rankings.  If you’re interested in some of the methodology underlying these rankings, start here.

Here’s the top 101.  For what might be the first time since I started publishing these, Delpo is knocked out of the top four.  Because my system takes into account the last two years, he could take a hit when the 2009 US Open comes off the books.  It’s not as major a shift as in the ATP rankings, because my system has already heavily discounted the 2009 Open because it was so long ago, but given how large a factor those wins play in Delpo’s ranking, it will make a difference.

Also interesting to see how my system reflects the mess that is 6 through 15.  Fish, appropriately, heads the group on hard courts, while Ferrer loses several spots compared to the ATP rankings.  (Remember, these numbers are hard-court specific.)  Melzer and Almagro find themselves way out of the running.

Note also what these numbers do with some younger players — Bernard Tomic is on the cusp of cracking the top 20, and Ryan Harrison is inside the top 50.

RANK  PLAYER                  POINTS  
1     Novak Djokovic            7509  
2     Rafael Nadal              4977  
3     Roger Federer             4154  
4     Andy Murray               3911  
5     Juan Martin del Potro     3207  
6     Mardy Fish                2709  
7     Jo-Wilfried Tsonga        2654  
8     Robin Soderling           2360  
9     Tomas Berdych             2034  
10    Stanislas Wawrinka        1907  
11    Gael Monfils              1842  
12    Marin Cilic               1790  
13    David Ferrer              1601  
14    Andy Roddick              1518  
15    Gilles Simon              1507  
16    Nikolay Davydenko         1422  
17    Marcos Baghdatis          1392  
18    Richard Gasquet           1339  
19    Fernando Verdasco         1321  
20    David Nalbandian          1279  

RANK  PLAYER                  POINTS  
21    Bernard Tomic             1279  
22    Milos Raonic              1267  
23    Ernests Gulbis            1256  
24    Janko Tipsarevic          1159  
25    Viktor Troicki            1143  
26    Mikhail Youzhny           1108  
27    Florian Mayer             1093  
28    Alexander Dolgopolov      1068  
29    Philipp Kohlschreiber     1061  
30    Jurgen Melzer             1045  
31    Samuel Querrey            1044  
32    Nicolas Almagro           1023  
33    Ivan Ljubicic             1011  
34    Kei Nishikori             1005  
35    John Isner                 982  
36    Ivan Dodig                 948  
37    Michael Llodra             921  
38    Feliciano Lopez            903  
39    Radek Stepanek             896  
40    Guillermo Garcia-Lopez     854  

RANK  PLAYER                  POINTS  
41    Kevin Anderson             751  
42    Jeremy Chardy              745  
43    Juan Monaco                745  
44    Dmitry Tursunov            740  
45    Philipp Petzschner         736  
46    Ryan Harrison              736  
47    Julien Benneteau           734  
48    Marcel Granollers          720  
49    Tommy Robredo              716  
50    Adrian Mannarino           709  
51    Robin Haase                664  
52    Alex Bogomolov             662  
53    Xavier Malisse             660  
54    Thomaz Bellucci            651  
55    Lleyton Hewitt             621  
56    Sergey Stakhovsky          613  
57    Ivo Karlovic               607  
58    Grigor Dimitrov            602  
59    Thiemo de Bakker           598  
60    Andrei Goloubev            596  

RANK  PLAYER                  POINTS  
61    Lukasz Kubot               592  
62    Olivier Rochus             586  
63    Donald Young               585  
64    Dudi Sela                  559  
65    Santiago Giraldo           554  
66    Mikhail Kukushkin          543  
67    Andreas Seppi              541  
68    Denis Istomin              541  
69    Igor Andreev               528  
70    Pablo Cuevas               521  
71    Fabio Fognini              512  
72    James Ward                 505  
73    Yen-Hsun Lu                500  
74    James Blake                488  
75    Richard Berankis           477  
76    Matthias Bachinger         474  
77    Albert Montanes            468  
78    Lukas Lacko                466  
79    Benjamin Becker            466  
80    Jarkko Nieminen            463  

RANK  PLAYER                  POINTS  
81    Ryan Sweeting              461  
82    Leonardo Mayer             458  
83    Somdev K. Dev Varman       454  
84    Jerzy Janowicz             444  
85    Daniel Brands              444  
86    Matt Ebden                 440  
87    Michael Zverev             437  
88    Tobias Kamke               429  
89    Evgueni Korolev            426  
90    Blaz Kavcic                421  
91    Michael Berrer             419  
92    Daniel Gimeno              416  
93    Vladimir Ignatik           416  
94    Edouard Roger-Vasselin     412  
95    Frank Dancevic             406  
96    Alejandro Falla            401  
97    Ilia Marchenko             399  
98    Gilles Muller              396  
99    Grega Zemlja               396  
100   Simone Bolelli             387  
101   Wayne Odesnik              386