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Old 09-04-2016, 04:19 PM   #477
Brian Swartz
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Join Date: May 2006
Top Ten Rankings Update

1. Girish Girsh(SRI, 28) -- 13,330

With two of the year's first three Slams, Girsh has fought off the challenge from Iglar for the moment at least, and reasserted himself at the top.

2. Antonin Iglar(CZE, 30) -- 11,980

Poor results in the clay Masters and an earlier-than-usual Wimbledon departure have quite possibly ended Iglar's time as a serious challenger to the #1 ranking

3. Gustavo Caratti(ARG, 27) -- 9,680

Tireless, dominant on clay, weak on grass. It all adds up to Caratti staying as a solid #3, but he'll need to do better to move higher.

4. Anil Mehul(SRI, 31) -- 9,100

For now, Mehul is still hanging around as a threat to Caratti's position, and far better than the field. Cracks are forming though.

5. Mugur Kinczllers(ITA, 28) -- 4,990

The Wimbledon run to his first final was just enough for Kinczllers to reach 5th again.

6. Theodore Bourdet(FRA, 26) -- 4,980

An interesting ebb and flow with Kinczllers is developing. Do either of them have what it takes to push closer to Mehul in the second half?

7. Pierce Gaskell(USA, 31) -- 3,980

It looks like his time to decline may have finally come. A solid Top 5 fixture for years, Gaskell is still the top American but that may only last for months longer.

8. Davide Poilblan(FRA, 27) -- 3,570

Better late than never? With a RG quarterfinal and Wimbledon semi in his recent resume, Poilblan has finally made the jump to the first page.

9. Bjorn Benda(DEU, 33) -- 3,500

New management, and still doing just enough to be relevant.

10. Agustin Herrera(PER, 26) -- 3,495

Peru's new top player with Thiago mostly out of the picture, and he probably remains about here for a little while.

The gap to 11th is over 400 points right now, where McCuskey and Trulsen hang out. Neither of them looks a threat to jump in right now, but the younger players are starting to flex their muscles. Mooljee leads a number of players(Ujjaval, Cirakovic, Zakirov, Gilardino all in the Top 25) in his age bracket, and a year or two younger the generation after them is also starting to break through(Tristan Benitez is 26th, with Johnny Browne, Tiosav Srbulovic, and Juan de los Santos all in order behind him at 21). And then there's Luc Janin, 20 and a half and already 36th. I'll take a look at these players and their prospects in more detail at the end of the year, but right now I'd say the tour is set for the biggest wholesale changing of the guard over the next couple years that it's seen in my involvement with it. With four 30-somethigns in the Top 10 and three others in the next 11 players, along with a lot of players in their upper 20s, this whole apple cart is about to be overturned. It's only just starting.

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