US Open 2014

New rankings.

1. Serena Williams (1)
2. Simona Halep (2)
3. Petra Kvitova (4)
4. Maria Sharapova (6)
5. Agnieszka Radwanska (5)
6. Na Li (3)
7. Eugenie Bouchard (8)
8. Angelique Kerber (7)
9. Caroline Wozniacki (11)
10. Ana Ivanovic (9)
11. Jelena Jankovic (10)
12. Sara Errani (14)
13. Dominika Cibulkova (13)
14. Lucie Safarova (15)
15. Ekaterina Makarova (18)
16. Flavia Pennetta (12)
17. Andrea Petkovic (19)
18. Carla Suarez Navarro (16)
19. Venus Williams (20)
20. Samantha Stosur (21)
21. Shuai Peng (39)
22. Alize Cornet (23)
23. Svetlana Kuznetsova (22)
24. Victoria Azarenka (17)
25. Garbine Muguruza (26)
26. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (25)
27. Sloane Stephens (24)
28. Madison Keys (27)
29. Casey Dellacqua (32)
30. Barbora Zahlavova-Strycova (29)
...
33. Belinda Bencic (58)
44. Roberta Vinci (30)
57. Daniela Hantuchova (37)
80. Mirjana Lucic-Baroni (121)
100. Aleksandra Krunic (145)
106. Taylor Townsend (103)
112. Ana Konjuh (116)
179. Francoise Abanda (205)
431. Catherine Bellis (1208)

It's pretty funny looking at the draws of our 2014 Slam champions:

Li, AO: Konjuh, Bencic, Safarova, Makarova, Pennetta, Bouchard, Cibulkova
Sharapova, RG: Pervak, Pironkova, Ormaechea, Stosur, Muguruza, Bouchard, Halep
Kvitova, Wim: Hlavackova, Barthel, V.Williams, Peng, Zahlavova-Strycova, Safarova, Bouchard
S.Williams, USO: Townsend, King, Lepchenko, Kanepi, Pennetta, Makarova, Wozniacki

Only ONE top 10 win (Halep) in all four Slam runs combined. That's insane. Only two wins over former Slam champs (Stosur, Venus).

Li and Kvitova not only didn't beat a top 10 opponent en route to their Slam, but neither have beaten a top 10 opponent in 2014 yet.

Interesting that the three best teenage prospects all feature - if Konjuh, Bencic and Townsend fulfil their potential these Slam runs could look more impressive in retrospect.

Cilic with the first break. Apart from a slight wobble in the first game, he's been rock solid. Kei still seems a bit nervous.

I know it's a Monday but the low turnout on Arthur Ashe so far is pretty depressing.

Kei looks more out of gas than nervous to me :(

cilic is playing p well too

seriously though, when did cilic learn to serve like that?

oof. Kei can't seem to do anything right now. :(

his timing has deserted him

http://i.minus.com/inn8fdrAvbluc.gif

It's all a bit sad

Cilic is relentlessly good, Nishikori is dead on his feet and has fucked up the two-three half chances where it seemed like Cilic might choke

On the plus side we are heading to a neatly symmetrical pair of finals, score-wise.

rip my mans kei

this nu-Cilic is kinda terrifying, I'm so used to him being a headcase

btw has anyone seen Mario Ancic? He lives in NYC now doesn't he? still miss that dude

so many absolutely dreadful first serves from cilic
difficult to respect him for that reason alone

he doesnt just miss his first serves he hits them into the net about 15 inches above the ground

Ancic is a lawyer now isn't he?

Third Croatian Slam winner in history. Iva Majoli, Goran Ivanisevic, Marin Cilic. And the next generation of Croats is waiting in the wings...

nu-Cilic will be interesting.

Hope Kei can put it together in future, just not at the races today.

I always think Cilic is older than he is. He's more in Nishikori's generation than he is in Wawrinka's. So he'll have a lot of time to embed himself as nu-Cilic, not just a veteran peaking late in the day.

Kei looked spent, didn't do enough with Cilic's weak second serve which is what he did well against Djokovic. I really hope he gets another chance one day.

I hope he gets to another Slam final and doesn't exhaust himself en route, yes. Very satisfying to see him there before Dimitrov and Raonic.

Liked the wild DF on the first championship point. Little homage to Goran.

haha

lol xp

Ancic was apparently celebrating in the Columbia cafeteria, haha: https://twitter.com/callejonshair/status/509117063341015041

Goran ws hilariously nervous. Like chill out man, hes got this.

Haaa was just coming here to post that tweet Roz

Goran's face as Cilic was serving for it bringing back memories of him serving for Wimbledon!

So Croatia has an RG title, a Wimbledon and a USO. Over to you to bring home the AO, Konjuh or Coric or Vekic...

Roll of honour:

Men's singles: Marin Cilic
Women's singles: Serena Williams
Men's doubles: Bob Bryan & Mike Bryan
Women's doubles: Ekaterina Makarova & Elena Vesnina
Mixed doubles: Sania Mirza & Bruno Soares
Boys' singles: Omar Jasika
Girls' singles: Marie Bouzkova
Boys' doubles: Omar Jasika & Naoki Nakagawa
Girls' doubles: Ipek Soylu & Jil Belen Teichmann

Gotta be the first Turkish Slam title of any kind for Soylu in the girls' doubles.

god it is still so weird to see Cilic's name there.

No repeat winners this year!

AO: Li Na, Wawrinka
RG: Nadal, Sharapova
Wimbledon: Kvitova, Djokovic
USO: Cilic, Serena

New rankings:

1. Novak Djokovic (1)
2. Rafael Nadal (2)
3. Roger Federer (3)
4. Stan Wawrinka (4)
5. David Ferrer (5)
6. Tomas Berdych (7)
7. Milos Raonic (6)
8. Kei Nishikori (11)
9. Grigor Dimitrov (8)
10. Andy Murray (9)
11. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (10)
12. Marin Cilic (16)
13. Ernests Gulbis (12)
14. Juan Martin Del Potro (13)
15. Roberto Bautista Agut (19)
16. John Isner (15)
17. Fabio Fognini (17)
18. Gael Monfils (24)
19. Kevin Anderson (20)
20. Feliciano Lopez (21)
21. Richard Gasquet (14)
22. Tommy Robredo (18)
23. Alexandr Dolgopolov (22)
24. Philipp Kohlschreiber (25)
25. Leonardo Mayer (26)
26. Gilles Simon (31)
27. Lukas Rosol (27)
28. Nicolas Almagro (29)
29. Julien Benneteau (28)
30. Guillermo Garcia Lopez (33)
...
32. Mikhail Youzhny (23)
36. Dominic Thiem (45)
46. David Goffin (56)
53. Nick Kyrgios (60)
69. Victor Estrella Burgos (80)
150. Alexander Zverev (157)
167. Yoshihito Nishioka (245)
176. Borna Coric (204)
206. Nikolay Davydenko (183)

And the tennis wagon continues to Hong Kong, Québec City and Tashkent - where Wimbledon girls' champion Jelena Ostapenko has just won her first WTA match over Peer...

Bit harsh on whoever is at #31, Lex.

Not sure what Cilic has to defend points-wise this autumn but to not be top 10 / into the ATP Finals by year-end would be bizarre for a male Slam winner. Thomas Johansson the last, maybe?

#31 is Karlovic! (I just did the top 30 + points of interest elsewhere, one of which was Youzhny's fall...)

Cilic is only #11 in the Race despite having nothing to defend (almost literally - he was still banned this time last year, only came back in Paris and won one match). Murray is only #10. London YEC better prepare itself for Murray not to make it.

Johansson got into the YEC as an alternate after Agassi w/d - I think you have to go back to Kuerten in '97 to find someone who didn't qualify in any capacity. Can't remember what happened in '98 - neither Korda nor Rafter were at the YEC, I presume Korda had been banned by then and Rafter was injured because I'm sure he was top 10?

It could happen on the women's side this year too, with Li only #6 in the race and still out (and rumoured to be on the verge of retirement). Ironic given the fuss made over bringing it to Asia this year.

Ah, Johansson did make it - right.

Yeah, Rafter was top three at that time, I think. Lost a tight match at Paris Indoor vs Todd Martin first week of November so he was fit at that point (and no Davis Cup F to distract). Korda wasn't banned until '99 but wasn't actually ranked high enough to make the YEC in '98; his ranking took a knock when he failed to defend his Stuttgart title in the October (I know this makes no diff re: race points, but basically he was top 10 as a result of Stuttgart '97 + AO '98). He was #13 by Nov '98, despite the Slam. So he might be the one.

(Also, Korda only won another four matches in 10 events after losing in the '98 Wimb QF to Henman and testing +ve for nandrolone, though the test result wasn't made public until the end of the year (I guess Korda knew?) and I think his Wimb points stood until then. Oh, Petr.)

Lex where do you get the rankings from, read this in a report:

Cilic’s victory means Andy Murray will drop out of the top 10 for the first time in six years, with Cilic climbing to ninth, one place behind Nishikori.

ATP website confirms list above. Did wonder, seeing as the tournament ended on a Monday and the rankings are published on a Monday, whether perhaps they were incomplete, but the jump in Cilic's points (1800 to over 3000) suggests that it's all in there.

http://www.atpworldtour.com/Rankings/Singles.aspx

but I've worked out why it's wrong there - the ATP still put new rankings up on Monday and presumably will just add another 800pts to Cilic later today. Which is a terrible way of doing it, but hi tennis authorities. I thought that was an unusually small climb for Cilic!

So yeah, Cilic up to 9, Dimitrov 10, Murray at 11 and out of the top 10 for the first time since 2008.

xp I haven't looked at the points, I just went to the rankings thread on MTF...it's pretty sad when amateur statisticians on both tennis forums are so much more reliable than the ATP and WTA themselves

Ah, right!

Would it kill them to release the ranking on a Tuesday after the only Monday-finish Slam?

Especially as a few times in the past the rankings have been released on a Tuesday because they forgot to do it on a Monday!