With the Australian Open just concluded, the rankings were shaken up. Roger Federer increased his lead at world number 1 with his win. Since Rafa lost in the quarterfinals, he lost 1640 points and moved to 4th, his lowest ranking in years. The last time he wasn’t in the top 3 was May 23, 2005, almost 5 years ago, when he was ranked 5.
Although Djokovic did not improve on last year’s quarterfinal result, due to Rafa’s loss and Murray being so far behind him, Djokovic becomes number 2. And because Murray reached the finals, he’s just a fraction ahead of Rafael Nadal and back to being ranked number 3, a position he held in the middle of 2009.
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga’s semifinal run boosted his ranking up from 10 to 9. Meanwhile, Cilic’s semifinal run put him in the top 10 at 10. Fernando Verdasco dropped out of the top 10 and is now 12th in the world.
John Isner is now the second ranked American at 25th in the world ahead of Sam Querrey who is now 30th in the world.
