Saturday, December 19, 2009

Federer and Nadal through


Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal are through to the the next round of tennis at the Oylmpics. Federer made easy work of his clash with Russian Dmitry Tursunov with a 6-4, 6-2. Meanwhile Nadal had a hard fought battle with 71st ranked Potito Starace. It doesn't get any easy for the the Spainard, he next faces Lleyton Hewitt. The Austrailian beat Jonas Bjorkman to set up the second tie. Hewitt says he is really looking forward to facing Nadal. Below are the latest ATP men tennis ranking, whatever the outcome of the tournament, Federer will relinquish his number one spot to Nadal who thoroughly deserves it.

ATP Men Tennis Rankings:
1. Roger Federer (SUI) 6330
2. Rafael Nadal (ESP) 6305
3. Novak Djokovic (SRB) 4905
4. David Ferrer (ESP) 2915
5. Nikolay Davydenko (RUS) 2805
6. Andy Murray (GBR) 2300
7. James Blake (USA) 2020
8. David Nalbandian (ARG) 1930
9. Andy Roddick (USA) 1860
10. Stanislas Wawrinka! (SUI) 1650
11. Richard Gasquet (FRA) 1575
12. Nicolas Almagro (ESP) 1390
13. Fernando Verdasco (ESP) 1385
14. Gilles Simon (FRA) 1350
15. Fernando Gonzalez (CHI) 1340
16. Ivo Karlovic (CRO) 1300
17. Tommy Robredo (ESP) 1290
18. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA) 1265
19. Juan Martin Del Potro (ARG) 1260
20. Tomas Berdych (CZE) 1235