ATP top 10 tennis players

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1 Roger Federer 11,220
2 Rafael Nadal 10,735
3 Andy Murray 9,450
4 Novak Djokovic 8,150
5 Andy Roddick 5,440
6 Juan Martin Del Potro 5,425
7 Gilles Simon 4,000
8 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 3,600
9 Fernando Verdasco 3,500
10 Fernando Gonzalez 3,185

Good to see Federer on top again - but definitely a close race with Murray up there as well.

 

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I don't think Murray is really a threat. (he is a Brit = no BMT)

Nadal however will be a big threat to Roger's no 1 spot when he returns.

 

[Vernon]

I don't think Murray is really a threat. (he is a Brit = no BMT)

Nadal however will be a big threat to Roger's no 1 spot when he returns.

Murray is a real threat and especially on hard courts. Look for him to make deep runs in the upcoming Master Series tourneys and at the US Open.

Nadal, whilst indisputably a great player, is a major doubt with regard to how well he can avoid injury from here on in. Chronic tendonitis doesn't just go away with a few weeks rest.

 

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I agree that Murray is a thread on hard courts - but he does seem to fall apart when it comes to big matches.

Nadal may well be injury prone - he has a very physical game and has always had problems with his knees.

 

[Vernon]

I agree that Murray is a thread on hard courts - but he does seem to fall apart when it comes to big matches.

Nadal may well be injury prone - he has a very physical game and has always had problems with his knees.

Well I suppose lets give Murray the benefit of the doubt, at least for now. He's only 22, has already reached a Slam final and has a 6-2 head to head winning record against the world's best in Roger Federer.

Regarding Nadal, yeah he has always had knee injury problems, but never previously to the extent where he was forced to miss a Grand Slam tournament like Wimbledon and being the defending champion. IMO, that in itself is quite serious.

 

[Morgoth]

I don't think Nadal will be what he use to be, he had Federer's number, but always seems to have knee problems,

 

[Vernon]

I don't think Nadal will be what he use to be, he had Federer's number, but always seems to have knee problems,

I would say that he had Federers number largely because many of their matches were played on clay where Nadal reigns supreme.
The flip side of that is that Nadal has never been good enough to play Federer consistantly on Federer's more comfortable surfaces. In his five straight US Open victories, Federer has not once had to face Nadal because Rafa was being eliminated in earlier rounds by other 'lesser' opponents.
So this is where this anomaly comes in with the lopsided head to head stats favouring Nadal.