{"id":116,"date":"2011-03-11T15:00:18","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T15:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavytopspin.com\/?p=116"},"modified":"2011-03-11T15:00:18","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T15:00:18","slug":"hard-court-singles-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/11\/hard-court-singles-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard-Court Singles Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’ve found your way here from the Wall Street Journal, welcome! If you don’t know what I’m talking about, go read\u00a0what Carl Bialik has to say<\/a> in today’s paper, and\u00a0in an online follow-up<\/a>. \u00a0I’ve written at length about my rankings and prediction system and published full odds for Indian Wells\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

As you may have read in the Wall Street Journal, my ranking system rates Federer number one. \u00a0The difference between Fed and Nadal is even more striking if we use my hard-court-specific rankings. \u00a0However, in the hard-court-specific rankings, Djokovic closes the gap quite a bit.<\/p>\n

Before you email me to tell me what an idiot I am for publishing something so blatantly wrong, please read my description of what the system does<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The goal of these rankings isn’t to say who is the greatest of all time, or to say that any player here is guaranteed to beat anyone below him. \u00a0Instead, they are the result of an algorithm that is better than anything else I’ve seen at predicting the outcome of tennis matches.<\/p>\n

Here are the current top 100 hard-court players, along with the hard-court rankings of several other players who are in the Indian Wells main draw:<\/p>\n

1   Roger Federer          8579 \n2   Novak Djokovic         6853 \n3   Andy Murray            5013 \n4   Rafael Nadal           4892 \n5   Robin Soderling        4363 \n6   Juan Martin del Potro  3624 \n7   Nikolay Davydenko      3118 \n8   David Ferrer           2913 \n9   Andy Roddick           2671 \n10  Tomas Berdych          2284 \n11  Gael Monfils           2226 \n12  Stanislas Wawrinka     2094 \n13  Marcos Baghdatis       2062 \n14  David Nalbandian       1967 \n15  Mardy Fish             1961 \n16  Marin Cilic            1779 \n17  Fernando Verdasco      1709 \n18  Jurgen Melzer          1615 \n19  Ivan Ljubicic          1602 \n20  Jo-Wilfried Tsonga     1565 \n\n21  Michael Llodra         1475 \n22  Mikhail Youzhny        1317 \n23  Gilles Simon           1314 \n24  Florian Mayer          1312 \n25  Nicolas Almagro        1305 \n26  Milos Raonic           1231 \n27  Alexander Dolgopolov   1223 \n28  Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 1109 \n29  Juan Monaco            1102 \n30  Richard Gasquet        1091 \n31  Radek Stepanek         1044 \n32  Viktor Troicki         1021 \n33  John Isner              901 \n34  Lleyton Hewitt          883 \n35  Tommy Robredo           867 \n36  Albert Montanes         841 \n37  Jeremy Chardy           840 \n38  Ernests Gulbis          820 \n39  Philipp Kohlschreiber   796 \n40  Feliciano Lopez         787 \n\n41  Samuel Querrey          773 \n42  Janko Tipsarevic        734 \n43  Fernando Gonzalez       711 \n44  Julien Benneteau        695 \n45  Kei Nishikori           686 \n46  Jarkko Nieminen         638 \n47  Juan Carlos Ferrero     635 \n48  Dmitry Tursunov         633 \n49  Xavier Malisse          588 \n50  Thomaz Bellucci         578 \n51  Ivo Karlovic            559 \n52  Andreas Seppi           507 \n53  Andrei Goloubev         488 \n54  Benjamin Becker         487 \n55  Michael Berrer          466 \n56  Thiemo de Bakker        457 \n57  Igor Andreev            455 \n58  Olivier Rochus          449 \n59  Philipp Petzschner      447 \n60  Juan Ignacio Chela      434 \n\n61  Fabio Fognini           434 \n62  James Blake             432 \n63  Pablo Cuevas            426 \n64  Santiago Giraldo        413 \n65  Sergey Stakhovsky       402 \n66  Denis Istomin           400 \n67  Ivan Dodig              389 \n68  Arnaud Clement          375 \n69  Michael Zverev          367 \n70  Robin Haase             367 \n71  Leonardo Mayer          352 \n72  Robby Ginepri           351 \n73  Marcel Granollers       350 \n74  Daniel Brands           345 \n75  Alejandro Falla         341 \n76  Daniel Gimeno           341 \n77  Paul-Henri Mathieu      341 \n78  Mikhail Kukushkin       330 \n79  Dudi Sela               325 \n80  Lukasz Kubot            324 \n\n81  Teimuraz Gabashvili     303 \n82  Victor Hanescu          288 \n83  Grigor Dimitrov         284 \n84  Lukas Lacko             282 \n85  Adrian Mannarino        279 \n86  Kevin Anderson          275 \n87  Florent Serra           275 \n88  Simon Greul             274 \n89  Potito Starace          270 \n90  Edouard Roger-Vasselin  269 \n91  Frank Dancevic          269 \n92  Horacio Zeballos        268 \n93  Richard Berankis        266 \n94  Marco Chiudinelli       264 \n95  Rainer Schuettler       263 \n96  Ryan Harrison           262 \n97  Frederico Gil           261 \n98  Bernard Tomic           260 \n99  Nicolas Mahut           259 \n100 Tobias Kamke            259 \n\n102 Yen-Hsun Lu             255 \n104 Bjorn Phau              248 \n106 Chris Guccione          247 \n107 Ryan Sweeting           246 \n112 Ricardo Mello           240 \n114 Ilia Marchenko          236 \n116 Matt Ebden              233 \n120 Alex Bogomolov          228 \n121 Michael Russell         226 \n133 Marinko Matosevic       221 \n141 Dustin Brown            217 \n144 Donald Young            216 \n145 Tim Smyczek             215 \n147 Somdev Devvarman        215 \n156 Rik de Voest            212 \n174 Marsel Ilhan            208 \n196 Flavio Cipolla          202 \n261 Rohan Bopanna           109 \n319 Pere Riba                55 \n354 Ruben Ramirez-Hidalgo    22<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If you’ve found your way here from the Wall Street Journal, welcome! If you don’t know what I’m talking about, go read\u00a0what Carl Bialik has to say in today’s paper, and\u00a0in an online follow-up. \u00a0I’ve written at length about my rankings and prediction system and published full odds for Indian Wells\u00a0here. As you may have … Continue reading Hard-Court Singles Rankings<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,91,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forecasting","category-rankings","category-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}