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Rankings Update
1. Mateo Kaspar(FRA, 24) -- 17,560
Before the RG stumble, Kaspar looked invincible. As it is, he's 59-1 and it's hard to see him losing a hardcourt match. For all it matters he might as well have a million points. Nobody's challenging him.
2. Prakash Mooljee(SRI, 29) -- 9,620
Mooljee's grip on the #2 has been slowly slipping all year. He still benefits from not having to play Kaspar before the final of any tournament, and his winning pct is right on par with last year's at 83%. But somebody is coming ...
3. Gillo Fangio(ITA, 25) -- 8,470
Just over 1k behind is Fangio. He's actually one match better on the year than Mooljee at 47-8, and has mostly eliminated the puzzling early upsets that plagued him last year. He's also 3-0 in their personal H2H which plays no small part in closing the gap. It's looking more and more likely that the Italian will claim the #2 spot by year's end.
4. Johnny Browne(USA, 27) -- 7,290
Immediately after dropping just behind Dircx, the top American won back-to-back grass titles in Queen's and Eastbourne, then took care of business in reaching the Wimbledon semis. Back in the top 4 for now, and could stay there a while longer with the fan-friendly surroundings on the US hardcourt swing next up.
5. Guus Dircx(NLD, 23) -- 6,730
Dircs is back in 5th, but continues to make the QFs everywhere and probe for an opportunity to pick up ground. It's only a matter of time. He had a decent chance against Fangio in Wimbledon, but came up a little short. Guus has opened a big gap on the rest of the field now. It's basically Kaspar, 2-5 here, and then the rest as far as the divisions go.
6. Martin Zarco(ESP, 24) -- 4,530
The stunning early RG loss to Dudwadkar was a big blow to the clay-focused Zarco. As weak as he is on the hardcourts, there's no way he moves any higher this year.
7. Ariel Borja(USA, 24) -- 4,235
Borja's choice of tournaments continues to befuddle. He'll probably push back up to 6th though with opportunities awaiting over the summer.
8. Sigmund Kronecker(DEU, 25) -- 3,985
Steady, but not good enough to do anything really spectacular. Really in the same boat of 'push harder next year' that Zarco is, having passed the best chances of the season now.
9. Tomas Niklas(CZE, 29) -- 3,210
Just won't go away.
10. Luc Janin(CAN, 26) -- 3,050
And the opposite here. Now on the downside, with 2 Masters titles and 3 Slam SFs his best showings. Could have been much more.
17. Ritwik Dudwadkar(SRI, 23) -- 2,260
Dudwadkar needs one more big result to really get to the next level here. It's going to be hard to make further progress as this is the point last year when he really started racking up Challenger results, and all of those points need to be replaced. 5 titles and a final over the next three months. There could be a lot of treading water just below the seeding cutoff coming up.
231. Anil Mehul(SRI, 37)
Dropped back into futures territory after losing his best result from a year ago in singles(RG). Doubles picture changes every week, and they are close enough behind Aspelin/Cordasic that the end of every big tournament could have them switching. Top spot usually goes to whoever won the last time out.
43(J). Sushant Chiba(SRI, 17)
Chiba is definitely playing better players than himself in practice at this level; he can handle guys around 70-80 but is overranked here. He'll probably hang about here for the rest of the year. Only one more tier-3 win would really help, and not good enough to play in most of the bigger tournaments. He'll just have to do whatever he can, and then see what happens next year when most of those above him graduate to the pro tour.
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