Or what was the biggest climb down??
I can't remember who it was, but I remember there was one guy who reached the finals of a tournament in his first try.
2 career titles... both won going out of the qualifications, 7 years apart !Yahiya Doumbia of Senegal went from 453 to 125 after winning Lyon in 1988
In 1996, he went from 168 to 418 after his points from '95 Bordeaux dropped off.
Guy Forget entered 1994 Wimbledon ranked at 1,130 in the world. Forget reached the quarter finals of the tournament, before losing to Ivanisevic, and Forget's ranking jumped 917 places to 213 in the world.
landing in the top 20, it's definitely goran 2001.
2 career titles... both won going out of the qualifications, 7 years apart !
i've always been puzzled by this guy...
for the jumps, hewitt must be close to the top of the list... isn't he the guy who won an ATP tournament with the lowest ranking (adelaide 1998, ranked #550) ?
and what about forget and krajicek who played the QF at wimbledon (respectively in 1994 and 2002), being ranked outside the top 1000 ?
and for krajicek it's 1093-153 = 940 spots !Guy Forget entered 1994 Wimbledon ranked at 1,130 in the world. Forget reached the quarter finals of the tournament, before losing to Ivanisevic, and Forget's ranking jumped 917 places to 213 in the world.
and for krajicek it's 1093-153 = 940 spots !
I remember when andre golubev won that masters 1000 event out of nowhere, he was a kid.. ranking went from 82 to 36
Anyone remember Alexander Popp, he made the qf or sf @ W about ten years ago. I had never heard of him before and haven't heard anything since.He must've had a crazy jump in ranking with that Wimbledon run.
He made the QF two times IIRC, in 2000 and 2003.
That is correct. Alexander Popp beat some veterans of tennis during his run to the quarter finals of 2000 Wimbledon, beating Ronald Agenor (despite being bagelled in the first set), Michael Chang (8-6 in the fifth set), Gustavo Kuerten (a straight sets demolition that put Kuerten off Wimbledon for life), and Marc Rosset (a 5-setter), before Popp lost to Patrick Rafter in the quarter finals. Popp's world ranking went up 40 places, from 114 to 74.
At 2003 Wimbledon, Popp beat Hicham Arazi, Raemon Sluiter, Jiri Novak and Olivier Rochus before blowing a 2 set lead in his quarter final against Mark Philippoussis. Popp's world ranking jumped 105 places from 198 to 93.
Verkerk was another guy who must have had a huge jump with that random FO final.
What was Chris Lewis' ranking when he went to the Wimbledon final?
and what about forget and krajicek who played the QF at wimbledon (respectively in 1994 and 2002), being ranked outside the top 1000 ?
they were top 10 players coming back from injury, a bit different from others mentioned. They had injury protected rankings at those tournaments, so they didn't have to qualify.
I remember Popp. He seemed to be on the verge of breaking through on the tennis scene after those two Wimbledon runs. Was that the only place he made any impression? I don't recall hearing much about him after his 2003 run!
Popp never got past the R64 at the other majors (never won a match at the French Open) and all 6 of his titles were on the challenger circuit. Also, the world ranking of 74 that he obtained after his 2000 Wimbledon run to the quarter finals, was his career high ranking.
At 2004 Wimbledon, Popp lost to Roddick in the R16. At 2005 Wimbledon, Popp had a marathon win over Wayne Arthurs by 14-12 in the fifth set in the R64, and lost to Dmitry Tursunov in the R32.
Martin Verkerk's world ranking jumped 31 places, from 46 to 15, after his run to the 2003 French Open final. Verkerk beat Zeljko Krajan, Luis Horna (Verkerk saving a match point against the man who beat Federer in the first round), Vincent Spadea and Rainer Schuettler. And then, most impressively, he beat Carlos Moya (8-6 in the fifth set), and Guillermo Coria (in straight sets), before being beaten in straight sets in the final against Juan Carlos Ferrero.
anyone knows Boris Becker´s ranking when he won Wimbledon in 85 ? I just know he was unseeded