1 Rafael Nadal 886
2 Roger Federer 801
3 Novak Djokovic 561
4 Andy Roddick 329
5 Nikolay Davydenko 325
6 Fernando Gonzalez 293
7 Ivan Ljubicic 280
8 Richard Gasquet 257
9 Mikhail Youzhny 249
10 Guillermo Canas 241
11 Tommy Robredo 241
12 Tommy Haas 240
13 Tomas Berdych 239
14 Marcos Baghdatis 227
15 David Ferrer 220
16 Andrew Murray 214
17 Juan Carlos Ferrero 208
18 Juan Ignacio Chela 204
19 Carlos Moya 198
20 Lleyton Hewitt 179
21 James Blake 165
22 Paul-Henri Mathieu 155
23 Juan Monaco 152
24 Robin Soderling 137
25 Philipp Kohlschreiber 129
26 Ivo Karlovic 127
27 Nicolás Almagro 123
28 Jarkko Nieminen 122
29 David Nalbandian 119
30 Igor Andreev 112
31 Jonas Bjorkman 107
32 Gilles Simon 107
33 Filippo Volandri 103
34 Mardy Fish 102
35 Albert Montañés 101
36 Augustin Calleri 94
37 Jürgen Melzer 93
38 Arnaud Clement 90
39 Potito Starace 89
40 Marat Safin 87
41 Dimitry Tursunov 86
42 Nicolas Massu 85
43 Julien Benneteau 80
44 Gaël Monfils 80
45 Florian Mayer 77
46 Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 76
47 Fernando Verdasco 74
48 Vincent Spadea 72
49 Juan Marin Del Potro 71
50 Xavier Malisse 71

what are fed's chances of catching up in the race

Pretty good, I would say. Generally Fed's second half of the year has his best results, while Nadal has tended to struggle on the fast hardcourts.

That being said, Nadal is looking physically and mentally fit, and having the #1 ranking in his sight may well give him extra motivation to catch up on that surface as well.

I still think Fed will end the year at #1 --- but not with as big a margin as last year. But Roger can't afford many slip-ups in TMS events.

Nadal has really done impressively well so far this year. I would be surpised if there's ever been such a situation before. Federer has won two of the three slams, was runner up in the other, and yet is in 2nd place in YTD points. :blink:

Yes, it's all between Nadal and Federer. Yet one can see Djoko getting closer to them as well. In fact Djoko is closer to Nadal than Nadal is to Federer in the ATP ranking. Djoko in the mix might work in Fed's favour.

Very interesting end of season.

...and there is a slight discrepancy between ATP race points and money earned as Federer did earn a tiny bit more money than Nadal this calendar year.

tenez,

this might interest you

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/more/spec...7/index.20.html

roger is the only tennis player in the top twenty earners worldwide.

btw, rankings/race and earnings are not really related are they? cause anna kournikova would be the glaring exception

Thanks for that Coolpix. This obviously takes into consideration sponsors contracts. I frankly thought they were making more money than that. But I guess this is not bad! ;)

Regarding the ATP race and the money earned, you right, it is not directly related but it would not be absurd if it were. The more important a tournament the more money and points players get usually. I believe there is/was such a ranking system in Golf.

To the surprise of no-one, apparently both Fed and Rafa have both now qualified for the year end championship due to take place in Shang Hai in November..

Speaking of which, I can't wait for this to take place in London for a few years!! :It's due to be there in 2009, isn't it??