Sure, but Nadal and Djokovic had bye's for the first rounds which Tsonga didn't. One extra days rest and one match less is a pretty significant difference in this case.
Of course, Tsonga has no one else but himself to blame that he isn't ranked higher.
Really? Seem to me that part of the racquet is touching the ground. Given how crappy the quality of that image and the angle of it, you can argue it one way or another and come away none the wiser.
Now the truth of the matter is that this image is frozen and represent less than a fraction of...
Its spinning the wrong way because there is backspin/sidespin on the ball which you can see after the lob bounces. Normally, if the guy took the ball on the rise after a double bounce, you'd expect there to be topspin on the ball. If you take the ball going down on the racquet like that you...
This is no mystery really, the ranking points are there for everyone to see. The gulf between ranking spots are much wider the higher up you go in the rankings. Delpo will drop a lot come the fall tournaments since to begin with thats where the majority of his points is.
http://www.atpworldtour.com/Tennis/Players/Top-Players/Juan-Martin-Del-Potro.aspx?t=rb
He is still defending a master final, semi, and quarter and on top of that he has three 500 tournament wins and a 250 too. Thats a load of points. Everyone else is moving around because they have all their...