1 Rafael Nadal 936
2 Roger Federer 801
3 Novak Djokovic 561
4 Andy Roddick 376
5 Nikolay Davydenko 325
6 Fernando Gonzalez 293
7 Ivan Ljubicic 280
8 Tommy Robredo 275
9 David Ferrer 260
10 Richard Gasquet 257
11 Guillermo Canas 256
12 Mikhail Youzhny 252
13 Tommy Haas 250
14 Tomas Berdych 244
15 Carlos Moya 239
16 Marcos Baghdatis 227
17 Juan Ignacio Chela 221
18 Juan Carlos Ferrero 220
19 Andrew Murray 214
20 Juan Monaco 206
21 Paul-Henri Mathieu 186
22 James Blake 185
23 Lleyton Hewitt 179
24 Ivo Karlovic 148
25 Nicolás Almagro 144
26 Robin Soderling 142
27 Igor Andreev 140
28 Philipp Kohlschreiber 139
29 Filippo Volandri 129
30 Gilles Simon 128
31 Potito Starace 127
32 Dimitry Tursunov 124
33 Jarkko Nieminen 122
34 David Nalbandian 119
35 Radek Stepanek 118
36 Albert Montañés 116
37 Fernando Verdasco 111
38 Gaël Monfils 111
39 Jonas Bjorkman 110
40 Augustin Calleri 108
41 Marat Safin 105
42 Mardy Fish 105
43 Fabrice Santoro 98
44 Jürgen Melzer 93
45 Nicolas Mahut 91
46 Arnaud Clement 90
47 Florian Mayer 90
48 José Acasuso 88
49 Vincent Spadea 86
50 Nicolas Massu 85
51 Feliciano Lopez 82
52 Hyung-taik Lee 81
53 Luis Horna 80
54 Julien Benneteau 80
55 Andreas Seppi 79
56 Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 76
57 Oliver Rochus 75
58 Juan Marin Del Potro 74
59 Sam Querrey 72
60 Xavier Malisse 71
61 Janko Tipsarevic 70
62 Stefan Koubek 69
63 Evgueni Korolev 68
64 Marc Gicquel 67
65 Florent Serra 66
66 Kristof Vliegen 65
67 Óscar Hernández 63
68 Benjamin Becker 61
69 Stanislas Wawrinka 60
70 Martin Vassallo Arguello 57
71 Andrei Pavel 55
72 Teimuraz Gabashvili 53
73 Frank Dancevic 52
74 Sergio Roitman 51
75 Amer Delic 50
76 Diego Hartfield 50
77 Michaël Llodra 49
78 Thomas Johansson 49
79 Sebastien Grosjean 49
80 Max Mirnyi 48
81 Mariano Zabaleta 46
82 Dominik Hrbaty 44
83 Paul Capdeville 43
84 Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo 43
85 Nicolás Lapenti 43
86 Werner Eschauer 41
87 Chris Guccione 41
88 Steve Darcis 40
89 Gastón Gaudio 39
90 Nicolas Devilder 39
91 Alejandro Falla 38
92 Michael Berrer 38
93 Igor Kunitsyn 38
94 Edouard Roger-Vasselin 37
95 Carlos Berlocq 36
96 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 35
97 Michael Russell 34
98 Wayne Arthurs 33
99 Iván Navarro Pastor 33
100 Mario Ancic 33

Interesting now that Nadal has been beaten by Djoker.Federer will be 100 points behind at the most for making the final.If he wins it will be down to 70.
Also Djoker for me now is clearly the third best player,as he extends his already massive lead over Roddick.It's hard to imagine him getting to their level now.
I thought by the end of the season that Roddick could challenge Nadal for the number 2 slot,as he has a great Hardcourt record,but now he will struggle to break the Top3.

Actually, Fed is 110 points down now. It's interesting that Fed could potentially win both Cincinnati and USO, hold three of the four slams and still be in second place in the YTD Race. :unsure: Of course, Nadal would have to make the final in both cases for that to work out, but still, can you imagine winning 3/4 majors and not being highest in points??

Yes, difficult to imagine I agree but Nadal has played 40% more tournaments than Fed this year or 50% more matches. Whichever we look at it, it is a big advantage for Nadal...for now.

Per tournament, Nadal gained an average of 70 points, Federer 87. That is the stat that shoudl really matter at the end of the year.

excactly, the atp should study the pga (golf) rankings method

This is just an obsevation about the Entry ranking and not the race but with the loss of Gnzo in Cincy, the gap between the top 5 and the rest is really widening.

It looks like we already have the top 5 end of th eyear list. The question will be then, in what order?

Very interesting point, Tenez. Thanks for that stat.

One question, however, is how many optional tournaments Fed will play this year? He was only down to play four all year, and he missed Halle. So will he choose to play an extra tournament in the fall (remember that he is already down to play three consecutive weeks at the end of the year, including two MS events)? Or will he be confident that he can maintain his ranking by performing well during the rest of the year?

Your welcome MJT. Unfortunately, I don't think there is room for him to play a non-compulsory event by end of year and even Basle woudl have to be dropped if he wants - as he needs - to make a good appearance in Paris. I don't know how things will work but he really has to rely on Nadal poor performance if he wants to end up the year nber one.

Nadal's loss today is likely to make the race end very open...or maybe less open that it could have been.