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OK, so I got more statto-ishly interested in Antepli's question than I should and went back over all the year end rankings this century to check whether the 2016 list was the first this century to have 10 different nationalities in the men's singles top 10. It was. List below of the highest world-ranked players who were second in their country at the year-end, together with their higher-ranked fellow countryman:
2000 5 Kafelnikov (RUS), 2 Safin
2001 7 Rafter (AUS), 1 Hewitt
2002 5 Moya (ESP), 4 Ferrero
2003 4 Agassi (USA), 1 Roddick
2004 8 Agassi (USA), 2 Roddick
2005 7 Agassi (USA), 3 Roddick
2006 6 Roddick (USA), 4 Blake
2007 5 Ferrer (ESP), 2 Nadal
2008 7 Simon (FRA), 6 Tsonga
2009 9 Verdasco (ESP), 2 Nadal
2010 7 Ferrer (ESP), 1 Nadal
2011 5 Ferrer (ESP), 2 Nadal
2012 5 Ferrer (ESP), 4 Nadal
2013 3 Ferrer (ESP), 1 Nadal
2014 4 Wawrinka (SUI), 2 Federer
2015 4 Wawrinka (SUI), 3 Federer
2016 12 Tsonga (FRA), 7 Monfils
2017 9 Wawrinka (SUI), 2 Federer
Edit: I'm guessing that for the entirety of the period from the beginning of ATP rankings to the end of the 20th century, the USA will have had at least two men in the year end singles top 10. Difficult to imagine otherwise when you think of the overlapping career spans of the big US names.
Edit2: pah, what do I know? Some checking (MUST. STOP. NOW) reveals that there was only US man in the 1986 year end top 10, but there were, on the other hand, 3 Swedes in that list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_Grand_Prix_(tennis)Last edited by Evariste Euler Gauss; 12-03-2018, 23:16.
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Two of the three Swedes are easy to guess, the third not so. Looking at both lists there are some great names but I must confess that Kafelnikov doesn't ring any bells.
Great work EEG of course. Should I ask about the women's game?
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Cheers AE. I haven't got time this week to do the same exercise for the women's top 10 records, but I have checked that the most recent year in which the WTA year end singles rankings top 10 places had 10 different nationalities was 2014:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_WTA_Tour
The 3 more recent year ends all had two US women (2015 the Williams sisters, 2016 Serena Williams and Keys, 2017 Venus Williams and - in 10th place -Vandeweghe).
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My hopes for a really great season for Simona Halep have taken rather a battering in Indian Wells. Her first tournament back after injury was going well but just ran up against a wipe out in the semi final to Naomi Osaka, which involved her losing the last 9 games in a row from 3-3 in the first set.
Not sure the organisers would have been anticipating an Osaka Kasatkina final
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I wonder when the last event was at this level for men or women (Masters 1000 for men or Prem Mandatory - or near equivalent Prem 5 - for women) or higher where the final was between two under-21s?
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WTA in Miami. Broady and Watson in qualifying, and out again, after dismal defeats against Dodin and Haddad. But Katie Boulter who got in on a (slightly surprising) QWC has first dumped out Taylor Townsend and now Carol Zhao (the latter after losing the first five games). It's her first main tour main draw match on foreign soil.
In the Men's Norrie has won through, and Liam Broady is a set up.
Konta and Edmund are both in the main draws.
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Sounds likely to be a great day out for you. Never been myself I'm afraid.
So Federer will lose his #1 ranking at the end of Miami after crashing out today. He could easily become #1 again during the clay court season though, despite missing the whole of that season, as Nadal has shed loads of clay season points to defend (and Federer has none), and Nadal looks in dodgy shape, injury-wise.
I can't wait for Murray to get back.
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