Playing the Tennis Rankings Game: Reviewing the Top 10 in 2011… 9
Novak Djokovic of Serbia, the new world No. 1 in men's tennis.
What a difference a year makes. Nothing brings that point home more than looking back at the men’s and women’s tennis rankings at the end of 2010—and comparing it to today’s ranking.
For the last two years, the ladies’ rankings were as follows:
2010
- Caroline Wozniacki
- Vera Zvonareva
- Kim Clijsters
- Serena Williams
- Venus Williams
- Samantha Stosur
- Francesca Schiavone
- Jelena Jankovic
- Elena Dementieva
- Victoria Azarenka
2011
- Caroline Wozniacki
- Petra Kvitova
- Victoria Azarenka
- Maria Sharapova
- Na Li
- Samantha Stosur
- Vera Zvonareva
- Agnieszka Radwanska
- Marion Bartoli
- Andrea Petkovic
Only four of the WTA top ten ranked women at end of 2010 appear again in the top ten in 2011 after the ladies concluded their battle for the 2011 WTA championship.
Many of the perennial “standards” have faded from sight with no Williams sisters or Kim Clijsters making the cut.
For the men, the story is a bit different. While the ATP top ten ranked players at the end of 2010 had a different order, most of the names are the same in 2011—now, as the final three men struggle to make the ATP elite eight field for the 2011 year-end championship.
