Want to know which players had a good year in 2012? Find out which players moved up the rankings substantially at the end of the 2012 season compared to a year ago.
Tommy Haas after practicing at the US Open 2012
Players Who Entered the Top 50
Thirteen players made it in to the 2012 season’s end top 50 compared to where they finished in 2011.
The first number is their end-of-year ranking and the number in brackets is their ranking at the end of 2011.
21. Tommy Haas GER (205)
22. Sam Querry USA (93)
26. Jerzy Janowicz POL (221)
30. Martin Klizan SVK (117)
32. Jeremy Chardy FRA (103)
35. Julien Benneteau FRA (52)
41. Jarkko Nieminen FIN (77)
43. Denis Istomin UZB (73)
46. David Goffin BEL (174)
47. Benoit Paire FRA (95)
48. Grigor Dimitrov BUL (76)
49. Marinko Matosevic AUS (203)
50. Lukas Lacko SVK (112)
David Goffin at the French Open 2012
For the 13 players listed above it was an average increase of 85 places. Although this is affected by the improvements made by Haas (184 places), Janowicz (195 places), David Goffin (128 places) and Matosevic (154 places and now Australian number 1).
Keep an eye on these players in 2013.
High Performers Ranked 50-100
In addition to the four players mentioned above who rose by at least 100 places to enter the top 50 a further 7 players finished the season ranked 50-100 after producing similar ranking improvements.
59. Paul-Henri Mathieu FRA (Not ranked)
63. Brian Baker USA (456)
67. Benjamin Becker GER (304)
69. Igor Slijsling NED (200)
79. Andrey Kuznetsov RUS (222)
82. Lleyton Hewitt AUS (186)
90. Guillaume Rufin FRA (237)
Until next time
Grand Slam Gal
Sources
ATP rankings data taken from ATP website. 2012 data from 19 November 2012. 2011 data from 26 December 2011.
Janowicz and Klizan are two that I’ll be watching out for in 2013. Hopefully Goffin will continue to progress as I enjoyed his match against Federer at the French Open.