MENS RANKINGS AFTER the AUS OPEN

[stmookeyj]

Federer
Nadal
Djokovic
Davydenko
Ferrer
Roddick
Gasquet (UP 1)
Youzhny (UP 6)
Blake (UP 6)
Nalbandian
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Berdych (UP 2)
Murray (DOWN 3)
Baghdatis (UP 3)
Canas (UP 3)
Ferrero (UP 6)
Moya (UP 2)
Robredo (DOWN 5)
Tsonga (UP 20)
Matthieu (UP 6)
Hewitt (UP 2)


Three biggest losers were Gonzalez (down 17 to 24), Haas (down 16 to 27 without playing), Mayer (down 17 to 69) and Fish (down 38 to 81). Apart from Tsonga, other big gainers were Cilic (up 18 to 39) and Spadea (up 20 to 60).

Of the Aussies, Luczak up 6 to 84, Guccione up 2 to 89, A.Jones up 11 to 126 with Sirianni (143) and Smeets (169) also in the 200.

 

[Sir Vlado]

Nice job mate

 

[LukeParkerno1]

How the heck is Davydenko still at 4!

 

[caboose]

.. and, just to round things out, here's the new women's top 20:

1. (1) Justine Henin (Bel) 6680 points
2. (3) Ana Ivanovic (Srb) 4126
3. (2) Svetlana Kuznetsova (Rus) 3760
4. (4) Jelena Jankovic (Srb) 3700
5. (5) Maria Sharapova (Rus) 3256
6. (8) Venus Williams (USA) 2720
7. (6) Anna Chakvetadze (Rus) 2720
8. (9) Daniela Hantuchova (Svk) 2677
9. (10) Marion Bartoli (Fra) 2133
10. (7) Serena Williams (USA) 2022
11. (11) Elena Dementieva (Rus) 1985
12. (14) Nadia Petrova (Rus) 1912
13. (13) Tatiana Golovin (Fra) 1852
14. (15) Patty Schnyder (Sui) 1756
15. (12) Nicole Vaidisova (Cze) 1667
16. (16) Dinara Safina (Rus) 1662
17. (17) Shahar Peer (Isr) 1480
18. (18) Amelie Mauresmo (Fra) 1453
19. (20) Sybille Bammer (Aut) 1366
20. (19) Agnes Szavay (Hun) 1303

As it suggests, not too many major moves there. Ivanovic goes to #2, while Serena fell three places after failing to defend her Aus Open title, with Venus, Hantuchova and Bartoli the three to move past her.

 

[Drummond]

.. and, just to round things out, here's the new women's top 20:

1. (1) Justine Henin (Bel) 6680 points
2. (3) Ana Ivanovic (Srb) 4126
3. (2) Svetlana Kuznetsova (Rus) 3760
4. (4) Jelena Jankovic (Srb) 3700
5. (5) Maria Sharapova (Rus) 3256
6. (8) Venus Williams (USA) 2720
7. (6) Anna Chakvetadze (Rus) 2720
8. (9) Daniela Hantuchova (Svk) 2677
9. (10) Marion Bartoli (Fra) 2133
10. (7) Serena Williams (USA) 2022
11. (11) Elena Dementieva (Rus) 1985
12. (14) Nadia Petrova (Rus) 1912
13. (13) Tatiana Golovin (Fra) 1852
14. (15) Patty Schnyder (Sui) 1756
15. (12) Nicole Vaidisova (Cze) 1667
16. (16) Dinara Safina (Rus) 1662
17. (17) Shahar Peer (Isr) 1480
18. (18) Amelie Mauresmo (Fra) 1453
19. (20) Sybille Bammer (Aut) 1366
20. (19) Agnes Szavay (Hun) 1303

As it suggests, not too many major moves there. Ivanovic goes to #2, while Serena fell three places after failing to defend her Aus Open title, with Venus, Hantuchova and Bartoli the three to move past her.

And Bartoli lost in the first round, and she's rewarded with the 9th spot in the rankings. Pathetic.

Can't believe Tatiana Golovin is #13! I don't mind her as she comes across as a likeable girl, but she's pretty ordinary. Vaidisova had better be careful, she's not doing alot right now and is slipping down the rankings a bit.

 

[red+black]

How the heck is Davydenko still at 4!

Money can buy you anything.

 

[ShearMagic9]

Andy Murray only down 3 spots?

That'll do me.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Andy Murray only down 3 spots?

That'll do me.

Yes and Gonzalez down 17..that defies stupidity imo. I could cop Gonzalez going down to 13-15 in the rankings..but seriously this system needs review ASAP.

 

[gandaal]

Yes and Gonzalez down 17..that defies stupidity imo. I could cop Gonzalez going down to 13-15 in the rankings..but seriously this system needs review ASAP.

Not really. it makes perfect sense to me. Gonzalez made the Open final last year which was his best effort last year. Since he didn't repeat the effort and only managed to get to the third round his ranking takes a massive dive. Andy Murray has never really performed at the Aussie open so he didn't really have a great deal of ranking points to lose so his ranking doesn't drop significantly. That's just the way it goes.

 

[ben.carbonaro]

Nice job mate

I agree.

Working beautifully.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Not really. it makes perfect sense to me. Gonzalez made the Open final last year which was his best effort last year. Since he didn't repeat the effort and only managed to get to the third round his ranking takes a massive dive. Andy Murray has never really performed at the Aussie open so he didn't really have a great deal of ranking points to lose so his ranking doesn't drop significantly. That's just the way it goes.

Murray made the 4th round last year..

Gonzo made the final, yes. He made the 3rd round this year, so he won twice in other words. He won 5 times last year. So only 3 wins the difference.

Murray made the 4th round last year and out the 1st round this year..3 wins the differenc. As I said, dumb system. Puts way too much emphasis on defending!

 

[ShearMagic9]

Were you the one that had a go at me when I had a go at the system? Or was that someone else?

It is a stupid system.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Were you the one that had a go at me when I had a go at the system? Or was that someone else?

It is a stupid system.

Wasn't me mate. I would have agreed with you. IMO, this system has a lot of flaws imo.

 

[hirdy_is_champ]

So then what else could they do? The only thing I can think of is not the whole defending of points, but just simply winning points and they all add up.
Justine Henin will be #1 for ages still as she always defends her points at the French, manages to go far at Wimbledon and win the US.

Would be interesting to see how many points Roger is on.

 

[gandaal]

So then what else could they do? The only thing I can think of is not the whole defending of points, but just simply winning points and they all add up.
Justine Henin will be #1 for ages still as she always defends her points at the French, manages to go far at Wimbledon and win the US.

Would be interesting to see how many points Roger is on.

Exactly. You don't want to get into the same situation as golf was in not that long ago when it reached a point where even if Tiger Woods didn't play a round of golf for two or three years he'd still be number 1 in the world. How boring is that?

 

[LukeParkerno1]

I'd rather they throw out the defending points system in Grand Slams. Leave them for the smaller tournaments, but for Grand Slams it is ridiculously unfair. Should be purely winning points in Grand Slams.