Today’s Feature (11/14)

Written by: Staff on 14th November 2012

Today's Feature (11/14)

epa03436591 Evgeny Donskoy of Russia returns to Edouard Roger-Vasselin of France of Russia during their match at the Kremlin Cup tennis tournament in Moscow, Russia, 17 October 2012. EPA/SERGEI ILNITSKY |

This Week’s Movers — Men

Each week, Daily Tennis will look at the biggest movers of the week, looking at how they did what they did.

Biggest Upward Mover — Most Places Moved (Top 100)

Leader: Evgeny Donskoy — Moved 24 places, from #122 to #98.

Donskoy won the Loughborough €42.5K Challenger.

Runner-Up: Michael Russell — Moved 18 places, from #103 to #85

Russell won the Knoxville $50K Challenger.

Biggest Percentage Mover — Cut Ranking By Highest Percent (Top 100)

Leader: Donskoy, cut ranking 20%

Runner-Up: Russell, 17%

Biggest Loser — Most Places Lost (Top 100)

Loser: Malek Jaziri — Dropped 27 places, from #89 to #116

Biggest Percentage Loser — Worst Percentage Increase in Ranking (Top 100)

Loser: Jaziri, ranking increased 30%.

Ranking Notes

It was a pretty quiet week. London had no rankings effect at all; the Top Ten is unchanged. So all the moves resulted from Challengers. Only three players rose as much as 15%: Donskoy, Russell, and Lukas Rosol, who won the week’s biggest event, at Bratislava, and rose 15%, from #84 to #71. On the down side, only Jaziri and Jesse Levine (down 25%, to #106) lost more than 20%.

Our Personal Picks for “Best Mover of the Week”

These are subjective picks!

We’re going to go a little “off-map” here and give the award to Benjamin Becker, who rose 9%, from #79 to #72. This is because Becker won the Ortisei €64K Challenger — but, more notably, he beat Andreas Seppi in the final. Ortisei was probably the toughest event this week, even if it wasn’t reflected in the points table, so we’d say Becker did the most to earn his points.