ATP Men's Tennis Rankings: June 9, 2014 - Nadal still on top

This coming Monday, June 9 2014 - Spain's Rafael Nadal will start his 139th week overall at No. 1 in the Emirates ATP Rankings. This comes after the heels of his historic fifth straight – and ninth overall – Roland Garros title. Nadal denied rival Novak Djokovic’s hopes of completing a career grand Slam by winning his 14th major title. He is now tied with American legend Pete Sampras at No. 2 in the Grand Slam title-leaders list on 14 major crowns. Nadal improved his record at Roland Garros to 66-1 and he has now won 35 consecutive matches. His only loss was in the 2009 fourth round, to Robin Soderling of Sweden.

Had Djokovic won the title, he would have returned to the world #1 ranking. This is the 2nd time he has finished as runner-up to Nadal at the French Open, the first time was in 2012. In his post-match interview, Djokovic reflected on Nadal's dominance on the clay courts of Paris. “Obviously his records speak for themselves,” said Djokovic. “He has won this tournament now nine times. It's very impressive… He has lost only once in his career on centre court. It's definitely not easy best of five to play against him in these conditions.”

ATP Men's Tennis Rankings Top 50: June 9, 2014

Rank, Name & Nationality	Points	Week Change	Tourn Played
1 Nadal, Rafael (ESP)	12,500	0	19
2 Djokovic, Novak (SRB)	12,330	0	18
3 Wawrinka, Stan (SUI)	5,480	0	21
4 Federer, Roger (SUI)	4,945	0	21
5 Murray, Andy (GBR)	4,840	3	20
6 Berdych, Tomas (CZE)	4,680	0	24
7 Ferrer, David (ESP)	4,190	-2	25
8 Del Potro, Juan Martin (ARG)	4,125	-1	20
9 Raonic, Milos (CAN)	3,245	0	21
10 Gulbis, Ernests (LAT)	2,725	7	25
11 Isner, John (USA)	2,690	0	23
12 Nishikori, Kei (JPN)	2,645	-2	21
13 Dimitrov, Grigor (BUL)	2,435	-1	23
14 Gasquet, Richard (FRA)	2,355	-1	24
15 Fognini, Fabio (ITA)	2,155	0	28
16 Youzhny, Mikhail (RUS)	1,930	0	26
17 Tsonga, Jo-Wilfried (FRA)	1,775	-3	21
18 Anderson, Kevin (RSA)	1,710	2	24
19 Dolgopolov, Alexandr (UKR)	1,680	2	30
20 Monfils, Gael (FRA)	1,660	8	23
21 Haas, Tommy (GER)	1,655	-3	25
22 Robredo, Tommy (ESP)	1,630	-3	23
23 Verdasco, Fernando (ESP)	1,555	2	24
24 Janowicz, Jerzy (POL)	1,510	-1	21
25 Almagro, Nicolas (ESP)	1,450	-3	24
26 Cilic, Marin (CRO)	1,410	0	22
27 Kohlschreiber, Philipp (GER)	1,395	-3	30
28 Bautista Agut, Roberto (ESP)	1,375	1	25
29 Lopez, Feliciano (ESP)	1,350	-2	27
30 Granollers, Marcel (ESP)	1,250	9	29
31 Garcia-Lopez, Guillermo (ESP)	1,233	10	27
32 Tursunov, Dmitry (RUS)	1,200	0	29
33 Karlovic, Ivo (CRO)	1,177	4	24
34 Seppi, Andreas (ITA)	1,150	-1	30
35 Pospisil, Vasek (CAN)	1,145	-4	26
36 Simon, Gilles (FRA)	1,135	-6	24
37 Giraldo, Santiago (COL)	1,118	-2	29
38 Dodig, Ivan (CRO)	1,100	-2	27
39 Delbonis, Federico (ARG)	1,099	-5	24
40 Mahut, Nicolas (FRA)	1,077	0	27
41 Mayer, Florian (GER)	1,075	-3	25
42 Stepanek, Radek (CZE)	1,040	1	23
43 Hewitt, Lleyton (AUS)	1,030	3	20
44 Chardy, Jeremy (FRA)	1,015	-2	26
45 Berlocq, Carlos (ARG)	1,010	2	24
46 Benneteau, Julien (FRA)	955	-1	25
47 Sousa, Joao (POR)	940	-3	30
48 Lu, Yen-Hsun (TPE)	933	0	25
49 Istomin, Denis (UZB)	915	0	28
50 Kukushkin, Mikhail (KAZ)	915	4	26

The ATP men's tennis rankings information is courtesy of atpworldtour.com.

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Nadal: Prize Money, French Open 2014

How much money will Rafael Nadal if he wins his record 9th French Open title at 2014 French Open? If he wins the title, the Spanish world #1 will pocket 1,500,000 euros. If he loses, he will still go home with 750,000 euros. Nadal is currently #1 in the 2014 year to date ATP prize money leaders with $3,607,582 for the season. In the ATP men's career prize money leader list, Nadal is #2 with $68,240,345 behind Roger Federer.

Here is the current standing prior to the start of the 2014 French Open.

2014 ATP Prize Money Leaders (US$)
1 Nadal, Rafael $3,607,582
2 Wawrinka, Stan $3,436,649
3 Djokovic, Novak $3,080,822
4 Federer, Roger $2,027,498
5 Berdych, Tomas $1,677,898
6 Nishikori, Kei $1,535,209
7 Dimitrov, Grigor $1,083,114
8 Ferrer, David $1,057,681
9 Gulbis, Ernests $886,872
10 Cilic, Marin $733,294
11 Dolgopolov, Alexandr $722,209
12 Murray, Andy $696,376
13 Raonic, Milos $649,833
14 Anderson, Kevin $618,514
15 Fognini, Fabio $604,227
16 Bautista Agut, Roberto $587,728
17 Isner, John $561,927
18 Giraldo, Santiago $556,986
19T Bryan, Bob $530,664
19T Bryan, Mike $530,664

ATP Career Prize Money Leaders (US$)
1 Federer, Roger $81,245,913
2 Nadal, Rafael $68,240,345
3 Djokovic, Novak $61,215,267
4 Sampras, Pete $43,280,489
5 Agassi, Andre $31,152,975
6 Murray, Andy $30,968,220
7 Becker, Boris $25,080,956
8 Kafelnikov, Yevgeny $23,883,797
9 Ferrer, David $22,975,724
10 Lendl, Ivan $21,262,417
11 Roddick, Andy $20,637,390
12 Edberg, Stefan $20,630,941
13 Hewitt, Lleyton $20,133,139
14 Ivanisevic, Goran $19,878,007
15 Chang, Michael $19,145,632
16 Berdych, Tomas $17,783,298
17 Davydenko, Nikolay $16,153,783
18 Del Potro, Juan Martin $15,345,947
19 Kuerten, Gustavo $14,807,000
20 Bjorkman, Jonas $14,610,671

Prior to the French Open, below is Nadal's prize money breakdown for the 2014 season:

34-6 W-L; 3 Titles; $3,602,662 = 2014 Prize Money

ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Rome, Italy; 11.05.2014; 1000; Outdoor: Clay; Draw: 56
This Event Points: 600, ATP Ranking: 1, Prize Money: €269,150

ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Madrid, Spain; 04.05.2014; 1000; Outdoor: Clay; Draw: 56
This Event Points: 1,000, ATP Ranking: 1, Prize Money: €698,720

Barcelona, Spain; 21.04.2014; 500; Outdoor: Clay; Draw: 48
This Event Points: 90, ATP Ranking: 1, Prize Money: €42,785

ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Monte Carlo, Monaco; 13.04.2014; 1000; Outdoor: Clay; Draw: 56
This Event Points: 180, ATP Ranking: 1, Prize Money: €68,890

ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Miami, FL, U.S.A.; 19.03.2014; 1000; Outdoor: Hard; Draw: 96
This Event Points: 600, ATP Ranking: 1, Prize Money: $384,065

ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Indian Wells, CA, U.S.A.; 06.03.2014; 1000; Outdoor: Hard; Draw: 96
This Event Points: 500, ATP Ranking: 1, Prize Money: $316,400

Australian Open, Australia; 13.01.2014; GS; Outdoor: Hard; Draw: 128
This Event Points: 1,200, ATP Ranking: 1, Prize Money: A$1,325,000

Doha, Qatar; 30.12.2013; 250; Outdoor: Hard; Draw: 32
This Event Points: 250, ATP Ranking: 1, Prize Money: $188,600

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Tennis Olympics 2012 - Men's Singles Entry List

2008 Olympic gold medalist and French Open champion Rafael Nadal, world no. 1 and Wimbledon champion Roger Federer, and 5-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic will lead an Olympic men's tennis singles field that consists of top ATP players from 33 different countries. Argentina, France, Russia, and the United States are the only four countries who will be sending the maximum number of four singles players into the men's draw. Brazil, India, Romania, Slovenia, Tunisia and Ukraine are countries that will be represented in the draw only because the ITF has extended wildcard entries to their top players. The other 56 players qualified based on their world ranking as of June 11, 2012. Fernando González of Chile, the 2008 silver medalist from 2008 will not be participating as he retired from tennis earlier this year. The 2008 bronze medalist is Djokovic, the current Australian Open and US Open champion.

2012 London Olympics - Men's Tennis singles entry list

- Argentina: Juan Martin del Potro, Juan Monaco, Carlos Berlocq, David Nalbandian
- Australia: Bernard Tomic, Lleyton Hewitt (*)
- Austria: Jurgen Melzer
- Belgium: Olivier Rochus, David Goffin, Steve Darcis
- Brazil: Thomaz Bellucci (*)
- Bulgaria: Grigor Dimitrov
- Canada: Milos Raonic, Vasek Pospisil (*)
- Chinese Taipei: Lu Yen-Hsun
- Colombia: Santiago Giraldo, Alejandro Falla
- Croatia: Marin Cilic, Ivo Karlovic, Ivan Dodig
- Cyprus: Marcos Baghdatis
- Czech Republic: Tomas Berdych, Radek Stepanek
- Finland: Jarkko Nieminen
- France: Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Gilles Simon, Gael Monfils, Richard Gasquet
- Germany: Philipp Kohlschreiber
- Great Britain: Andy Murray
- India: Somdev Devvarman (*)
- Italy: Andreas Seppi, Fabio Fognini
- Japan: Kei Nishikori, Go Soeda, Tatsuma Ito
- Kazakhstan: Mikhail Kukushkin
- Luxembourg: Gilles Muller
- Netherlands: Robin Haase
- Poland: Lukasz Kubot
- Romania: Adrian Ungur (*)
- Russia: Mikhail Youzhny, Alex Bogomolov Jr, Nikolay Davydenko, Dmitry Tursunov
- Serbia: Novak Djokovic, Janko Tipsarevic, Viktor Troicki
- Slovak Republic: Lukas Lacko, Martin Klizan
- Slovenia: Blaz Kavcic (*)
- Spain: Rafael Nadal, David Ferrer, Nicolas Almagro, Fernando Verdasco
- Switzerland: Roger Federer, Stanislas Wawrinka
- Tunisia: Malek Jaziri (*)
- Ukraine: Sergiy Stakhovsky (*)
- USA: John Isner, Andy Roddick, Donald Young, Ryan Harrison

- Uzbekistan: Denis Istomin
(*) ITF Place

The Olympics 2012 men's tennis singles entry list is from the International Tennis Federation (ITF) website.

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Tennis Olympics 2012 - Who will win in London?

It's a once-in-four-years experience for tennis players in the world's greatest sporting event - the Olympics. For the 2012 London Olympics, the top players in both the ATP and WTA professional tours will be in attendance led by current world no. 1 players Roger Federer and Victoria Azarenka. The Olympic tennis tournament will be held at the grass courts of the All England Club in Wimbledon, England from 28 July to 5 August 2012. The men's gold medalist in singles will be awarded 750 ranking points while the women's gold medalist will be given 685 ranking points. In perspective, these ranking points are more than what a Grand Slam quarter-finalist would receive but less than that of a Grand Slam semi-finalist.

Who are the favorites to win in London? For the men's singles tournament - current Wimbledon champion and world no. 1 Federer, 2008 Olympic gold medalist Rafael Nadal, Australian and US Open champion Novak Djokovic and hometown favorite and 2012 Wimbledon finalist Andy Murray are expected to contend for the gold medal. In women's singles, the prohibitive champion is 2012 Wimbledon titlist Serena Williams. Top ranked Azarenka - the reigning Australian Open champion, French Open champion Maria Sharapova, US Open champion Samantha Stosur, world no. 2 Agnieszka Radwanska and 2011 Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova are expected to challenge Williams for the gold medal.

Don't forget to return in two-weeks time as this blog will be covering the 2012 London Olympics tennis events. Five gold medal events are going to be contested - the men's singles, men's doubles, women's singles, women's doubles and the mixed doubles, a new event being played for the first time in 2012.

Related Links: Women's Singles Entry List | Men's Singles Entry List | Women's Doubles Entry List | Men's Doubles Entry List | Mixed Doubles Entry List | Watch Tennis Olympics 2012 Live Streaming | 2012 London Olympics - Tennis TV Schedule

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