Men's Tennis Rankings: A Complete Breakdown Before the Canada and Cincy Masters

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I'm writing about the rankings heading into the masters. This year, the rankings are strange because of the Olympics last year.

Rankings right after Wimbledon:

1 Federer, Roger (SUI) 11,220
2 Nadal, Rafael (ESP) 10,735
3 Murray, Andy (GBR) 9,450
4 Djokovic, Novak (SRB) 8,150
5 Del Potro, Juan Martin (ARG) 5,705
6 Roddick, Andy (USA) 5,440

These rankings will only remain like this for a couple weeks, because the Masters were played early last year, and because Del Potro will lose 700 points even if he defends all his titles from the summer.

Points from Canada are dropped on July 27 and points from Cincy are dropped on Aug. 3. From these calculations I'll also subtract the points that cannot be defended at any cost from each players.

It's a little trickier for Roddick and Del Potro because they play tournaments between Wimbledon and the Masters, so I'll give them points based on the fact that Roddick will be seeded higher for all of their tournaments which they both play in.

I'm going to show the number of points these guys have going into the masters.

Federer loses 360 points heading into the Masters this year, because he did pretty bad last year and only made the quarters in Beijing.

Nadal loses a lot more because of his success last year. So he loses 2,250 points.

Murray also did really good so he loses 1,450 points. Because his 0 point penalty for dropping out of Indianapolis expires this summer, he gain 250 from Queens. So his net loss becomes 1200.

Djokovic was another successful player during this time so he loses 1,230 points.

Del Potro didn't play in the Masters or Beijing last year. But he played in a lot of smaller tournaments whose values have been degraded or removed by the tour.

He loses 500 points because Kitzbuhel has been removed from the tour.

Another 250 is lost because Stuggart becomes an ATP 250 instead of the 500 points he earned there last year.

I think he will make the finals at L.A., so he will lose 200 points there. (Even if he wins he loses 100 points.)

Washington is the one tournament that Del Potro is defending that has been upgraded. But since he'll be seeded two, I'll put him down as the RUP for now which means that 50 points are lost.

So 1,000 points lost for Del Potro.

On to Roddick.

At Indianapolis, I'm not sure how he'll do because it will be his 1st match since Wimbledon. I'm going to assume that he is unable to get enough points at Indy to gain anything because a semifinal doesn't cut it.

At L.A., Roddick is defending 240 points. I have him down as winning L.A. though. For this reason he gets 10 points.

I also have A-Rod winning Washington for another 500 points.

Since Roddick didn't play Cincy due to injury and did bad at Canada, he only loses 150 points from all of this.

A total of 360 points gained by Roddick.

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