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ATP World Rankings Mens Rank Name Country Ranking Pts 1 Roger Federer SUI 6630 2 Rafael Nadal ESP 5980 3 Novak Djokovic SRB 5070 4 David Ferrer ESP 2695 5 Nikolay Davydenko RUS 2640 6 Andy Roddick USA 2120 7 Richard Gasquet FRA 1885 8 David Nalbandian ARG 1875 9 James Blake USA 1710 10 Tomas Berdych CZE 1685 11 Mikhail Youzhny RUS 1670 12 Andy Murray GBR 1625 13 Carlos Moya ESP 1585 14 Fernando Gonzalez CHI 1515 15 Paul-Henri Mathieu FRA 1495 16 Tommy Robredo ESP 1490 17 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga FRA 1470 18 Lleyton Hewitt AUS 1460 19 Juan Carlos Ferrero ESP 1455 19 Marcos Baghdatis CYP 1455 21 Ivo Karlovic CRO 1445 22 Guillermo Canas ARG 1408 23 Juan Monaco ARG 1395 24 Juan Ignacio Chela ARG 1340 25 Ivan Ljubicic CRO 1295 26 Jarkko Nieminen FIN 1240 27 Philipp Kohlschreiber GER 1155 28 Nicolas Almagro ESP 1065 29 Fernando Verdasco ESP 1050 30 Tommy Haas GER 1035 31 Radek Stepanek CZE 1010 32 Gilles Simon FRA 990 33 Igor Andreev RUS 955 33 Stanislas Wawrinka SUI 955 35 Dmitry Tursunov RUS 925 36 Potito Starace ITA 916 37 Michael Llodra FRA 873 38 Feliciano Lopez ESP 825 39 Andreas Seppi ITA 794 40 Fabrice Santoro FRA 772 41 Filippo Volandri ITA 770 41 Robin Soderling SWE 770 43 Nicolas Mahut FRA 761 44 Janko Tipsarevic SRB 752 45 Marin Cilic CRO 742 46 Jose Acasuso ARG 733 47 Agustin Calleri ARG 730 48 Nicolas Kiefer GER 690 49 Sebastien Grosjean FRA 661 50 Hyung-Taik Lee KOR 657 51 Gael Monfils FRA 642 52 Marc Gicquel FRA 615 53 Juan Martin del Potro ARG 608 54 Thomas Johansson SWE 598 55 Albert Montanes ESP 595 56 Stefan Koubek AUT 591 57 Oscar Hernandez ESP 590 58 Guillermo Garcia-Lopez ESP 588 59 Julien Benneteau FRA 584 60 Michael Berrer GER 581 61 Jurgen Melzer AUT 578 62 Olivier Rochus BEL 561 63 Sam Querrey USA 558 63 Dudi Sela ISR 558 65 Marat Safin RUS 550 66 Simone Bolelli ITA 545 67 Arnaud Clement FRA 540 68 Santiago Ventura ESP 535 69 Kristof Vliegen BEL 519 70 Vincent Spadea USA 518 71 Victor Hanescu ROM 517 72 Fabio Fognini ITA 513 73 Mischa Zverev GER 509 74 Sergio Roitman ARG 507 74 Carlos Berlocq ARG 507 76 Peter Luczak AUS 505 77 Florian Mayer GER 504 77 Rainer Schuettler GER 504 79 Robin Haase NED 503 80 Evgeny Korolev RUS 497 80 Steve Darcis BEL 497 82 Werner Eschauer AUT 487 83 Frank Dancevic CAN 486 83 Alejandro Falla COL 486 85 Jonas Bjorkman SWE 485 86 Chris Guccione AUS 481 87 Ivo Minar CZE 469 88 Ernests Gulbis LAT 465 89 Pablo Cuevas 459 90 Andrei Pavel ROM 458 91 Florent Serra FRA 456 92 Mario Ancic CRO 455 93 John Isner USA 452 94 Mardy Fish USA 440 95 Nicolas Lapentti ECU 434 96 Nicolas Massu CHI 432 97 Jiri Vanek CZE 429 98 Thierry Ascione FRA 427 99 Juan Pablo Brzezicki ARG 425 100 Bobby Reynolds USA 424 100 Boris Pashanski SRB 424

Tennis World News

Sharapova pulls out of Dubai Championships with viral infection

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -Maria Sharapova pulled out of the Dubai Championships with a viral infection.

The fifth-ranked Sharapova said Tuesday she has been battling a virus for several days and that it has "reached a point where I'm unable to compete."

"This is really disappointing to me, but I do intend to come back to Dubai next year and hopefully have a great tournament," she said.

Sharapova, who won this year's Australian Open and last week's Qatar Open, was seeded fifth in the tournament and was scheduled to start Tuesday against Hungary's Agnes Szavay. She was replaced in the main draw by Akiko Morigami of Japan.

Sharapova said she was feeling ill before the Qatar Open.

"I have been coughing a lot and feeling tired, but I somehow played through there," she said. "But I don't want to repeat the mistakes I have made in my past, when I tried to play through injuries and sickness and aggravated it."

The Dubai Championships offers $1.5 million in prize money and has attracted the top six ranked players in the world.

Sharapova said she would go home and rest for a week, before tournaments in Indian Wells, Calif., and Miami.

Mexican Open News Update

Mexican Open 2008

Top-seeded Ljubicic, No. 3 Simon advance; No. 2 Karlovic loses at Zagreb Indoors

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) -Top-seeded Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia and third-seeded Gilles Simon of France advanced to the second round at the PBZ Zagreb Indoors on Tuesday.

Ljubicic beat Ernests Gulbis of Latvia 6-3, 7-6 (7), and Simon defeated Pavol Cervenak of Slovakia 7-6 (2), 6-1.

Second-seeded Ivo Karlovic of Croatia lost 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-2 to the 209th-ranked Sergiy Stakhovsky of Ukraine despite serving 14 aces and having seven break points, while Rik De Voest of South Africa upset seventh-seeded Andreas Seppi 6-4, 7-6 (3).

Also, Teimuraz Gabashvili of Russia beat Florian Mayer of Germany 7-6 (6), 6-0, Roko Karanusic of Croatia rallied to defeat Blaz Kavcic of Slovenia 6-7 (9), 6-4, 6-4, Lovro Zovko of Croatia ousted Marc Gicquel of France 6-3, 7-5, and Viktor Troicki of Serbia topped George Bastl of Switzerland 6-3, 7-6 (3).

Mexican Open 2008 News Results

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Pennetta wins first round in Mexican Open

ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) -Top-seeded Flavia Pennetta defeated Russian Ekaterina Bychkova 6-4, 6-1 on Monday in the first round of the Mexican Open.

Pennetta, from Italy, has reached the finals in the Mexican Open four times, and won in 2005.

"There are a lot of matches before the finals, it's one step at a time," Pennetta said after the match.

Pennetta dominated the second set, breaking Bychkova's serve three times.

In other matches Monday, Mexican Melissa Torres came from behind to defeat Italy's Maria Elena Camerin 3-6, 7-5, 7-5.

American Jill Craybas easily defeated Paraguay's Rossana de los Rios 6-2, 6-2, and Spain's Lourdes Dominguez Lino dispatched Japan's Rika Fujiwara 7-5, 6-3. German Julia Schruff held off Hungarian Greta Arn 6-2, 6-7 (6), 7-6 (5).

On the men's side, third-seeded Juan Monaco rallied to beat fellow Argentine Juan Pablo Brzezicki 6-3, 2-6, 6-3. Spain's Nicolas Almagro cruised past Jiri Vanek of the Czech Republic, 6-1, 6-2. Spain's Albert Montanes upset seventh-seeded Igor Andreev of Russia 7-6 (4), 6-3.

Davis Cup 2008 News, Davis Cup 2008

French spirits sky high

For the second straight year, the France Davis Cup team led by captain Guy Forget dominated Romania in its opening tie. And for the second consecutive year, it will travel to face the defending champion in the quarterfinals.

In 2007 it was Russia, which proved too good for Forget’s boys. This year, they will travel to USA with higher hopes to continue the adventure.
Succesful Start for Tsonga

Australian Open Finalist and no-doubt a new sensation Jo-Wilfried Tsonga has given it a new dimension, and hopes of a campaign which could prove glorious. Ten days after his final at the Australian Open, Tsonga made a successful career debut inDavis Cup , defeating Andrei Pavel in a thrilling four setter. “Jo has lived up to the occasion. He displayed some dominating tennis, while remaining serene and in control ” said Forget.

Davis Cup 2008 News, Davis Cup Results, Davis Cup Updates

USA cruise into quarterfinals

Title holders USA secured themselves a spot in the quarterfinals of the Davis Cup by BNP Paribas, ousting first round hosts Austria 4-1 in Vienna.

Andy Roddick and James Blake gave Patrick McEnroe’s team a 2-0 lead before the Bryan brothers won the doubles to lift the outfit to an untouchable 3-0 advantage. In the dead rubbers, Bob Bryan celebrated a surprising singles victory, while his brother Mike Bryan had to retire with a hamstring injury.

Austrian hopes were high ahead of the tie and memories of the close 2-3 battle between the country’s tennis heroes Thomas Muster, Horst Skoff and Alex Antonitsch against Andre Agassi and his Likes from 1990 were fresh. Rolling out the red carpet, the hosts had a very slow clay court laid out and sold 6,500 tickets at low prices to create the perfect Davis Cup home atmosphere.

Davis Cup 2008 News Update, Davis Cup 2008 Results

New Zealand Beats Oman in Davis Cup

Davis Cup 2008
February 11:

New Zealand has completed a 5-0 win over Oman in their Davis Cup tennis tie in Muscat.

Dan King-Turner won the first of the reverse singles matches 6-love 6-1 before GD Jones completed the rout with a 6-1, 7-5 win over his opponent.

The New Zealanders return to the Middle East in April to take on Kuwait looking to get to the Asia Oceania zone group two promotion match in September.

In the World Group, Cup holders the USA are through to the quarter finals beating Austria 4-1, joining Germany, Russia, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Spain, France and Argentina in the last eight.