{"id":486,"date":"2011-08-22T11:41:36","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T15:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavytopspin.com\/?p=486"},"modified":"2011-08-22T11:41:36","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T15:41:36","slug":"hard-court-singles-rankings-22-august-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/22\/hard-court-singles-rankings-22-august-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard Court Singles Rankings: 22 August 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the U.S. Open a mere seven days away (and qualifying starting tomorrow!), it’s time to update my hard-court singles rankings. \u00a0If you’re interested in some of the methodology underlying these rankings, start here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s the top 101. \u00a0For what might be the first time since I started publishing these, Delpo is knocked out of the top four. \u00a0Because my system takes into account the last two years, he could take a hit when the 2009 US Open comes off the books. \u00a0It’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.<\/p>\n

Also interesting to see how my system reflects the mess that is 6 through 15. \u00a0Fish, appropriately, heads the group on hard courts, while Ferrer loses several spots compared to the ATP rankings. \u00a0(Remember, these numbers are hard-court specific.) \u00a0Melzer and Almagro find themselves way out of the running.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

RANK  PLAYER                  POINTS  \n1     Novak Djokovic            7509  \n2     Rafael Nadal              4977  \n3     Roger Federer             4154  \n4     Andy Murray               3911  \n5     Juan Martin del Potro     3207  \n6     Mardy Fish                2709  \n7     Jo-Wilfried Tsonga        2654  \n8     Robin Soderling           2360  \n9     Tomas Berdych             2034  \n10    Stanislas Wawrinka        1907  \n11    Gael Monfils              1842  \n12    Marin Cilic               1790  \n13    David Ferrer              1601  \n14    Andy Roddick              1518  \n15    Gilles Simon              1507  \n16    Nikolay Davydenko         1422  \n17    Marcos Baghdatis          1392  \n18    Richard Gasquet           1339  \n19    Fernando Verdasco         1321  \n20    David Nalbandian          1279  \n\nRANK  PLAYER                  POINTS  \n21    Bernard Tomic             1279  \n22    Milos Raonic              1267  \n23    Ernests Gulbis            1256  \n24    Janko Tipsarevic          1159  \n25    Viktor Troicki            1143  \n26    Mikhail Youzhny           1108  \n27    Florian Mayer             1093  \n28    Alexander Dolgopolov      1068  \n29    Philipp Kohlschreiber     1061  \n30    Jurgen Melzer             1045  \n31    Samuel Querrey            1044  \n32    Nicolas Almagro           1023  \n33    Ivan Ljubicic             1011  \n34    Kei Nishikori             1005  \n35    John Isner                 982  \n36    Ivan Dodig                 948  \n37    Michael Llodra             921  \n38    Feliciano Lopez            903  \n39    Radek Stepanek             896  \n40    Guillermo Garcia-Lopez     854  \n\nRANK  PLAYER                  POINTS  \n41    Kevin Anderson             751  \n42    Jeremy Chardy              745  \n43    Juan Monaco                745  \n44    Dmitry Tursunov            740  \n45    Philipp Petzschner         736  \n46    Ryan Harrison              736  \n47    Julien Benneteau           734  \n48    Marcel Granollers          720  \n49    Tommy Robredo              716  \n50    Adrian Mannarino           709  \n51    Robin Haase                664  \n52    Alex Bogomolov             662  \n53    Xavier Malisse             660  \n54    Thomaz Bellucci            651  \n55    Lleyton Hewitt             621  \n56    Sergey Stakhovsky          613  \n57    Ivo Karlovic               607  \n58    Grigor Dimitrov            602  \n59    Thiemo de Bakker           598  \n60    Andrei Goloubev            596  \n\nRANK  PLAYER                  POINTS  \n61    Lukasz Kubot               592  \n62    Olivier Rochus             586  \n63    Donald Young               585  \n64    Dudi Sela                  559  \n65    Santiago Giraldo           554  \n66    Mikhail Kukushkin          543  \n67    Andreas Seppi              541  \n68    Denis Istomin              541  \n69    Igor Andreev               528  \n70    Pablo Cuevas               521  \n71    Fabio Fognini              512  \n72    James Ward                 505  \n73    Yen-Hsun Lu                500  \n74    James Blake                488  \n75    Richard Berankis           477  \n76    Matthias Bachinger         474  \n77    Albert Montanes            468  \n78    Lukas Lacko                466  \n79    Benjamin Becker            466  \n80    Jarkko Nieminen            463  \n\nRANK  PLAYER                  POINTS  \n81    Ryan Sweeting              461  \n82    Leonardo Mayer             458  \n83    Somdev K. Dev Varman       454  \n84    Jerzy Janowicz             444  \n85    Daniel Brands              444  \n86    Matt Ebden                 440  \n87    Michael Zverev             437  \n88    Tobias Kamke               429  \n89    Evgueni Korolev            426  \n90    Blaz Kavcic                421  \n91    Michael Berrer             419  \n92    Daniel Gimeno              416  \n93    Vladimir Ignatik           416  \n94    Edouard Roger-Vasselin     412  \n95    Frank Dancevic             406  \n96    Alejandro Falla            401  \n97    Ilia Marchenko             399  \n98    Gilles Muller              396  \n99    Grega Zemlja               396  \n100   Simone Bolelli             387  \n101   Wayne Odesnik              386<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
With the U.S. Open a mere seven days away (and qualifying starting tomorrow!), it’s time to update my hard-court singles rankings. \u00a0If you’re interested in some of the methodology underlying these rankings, start here. Here’s the top 101. \u00a0For what might be the first time since I started publishing these, Delpo is knocked out of … Continue reading Hard Court Singles Rankings: 22 August 2011<\/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":[91,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rankings","category-u-s-open"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","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=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}