Monday, April 20, 2009

Post-Monte Carlo "Big 4" Rankings Update

This week's edition of the rankings looks strange, as there are two entries for Monte Carlo - this year's and last year's results. Last year's points get to stay an additional week because of the ATP World Tour scheduling changes in 2009.

That said, World No. 1 and Monte Carlo winner Rafael Nadal now leads World No. 2 Roger Federer (who was eliminated in the round-of-16) by a whopping 4,630 points:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p7B6JwEslHXptjJ8oGmyUQA

World No. 3 Novak Djokovic gets to keep his current ranking with a finals appearance at Monte Carlo despite World No. 4 Andy Murray's semifinal result. Djokovic currently leads Murray by 570 points:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p7B6JwEslHXqJoavSQJY0RQ

The points will "normalize" next week when last year's Monte Carlo ranking points drop off.

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