Tennis Betting Spotlight: Usual Suspects in Top 10 Rankings. There has been a plenty of turnover in the top 10 world rankings over the past year and even though there has been a few new names to enter that hallowed ground the names at the top of the list are the same as they’ve been for the better part of a half decade.
Heading into the last week of October Spaniard Rapha Nadal still holds down the number one spot, and b y a very healthy margin. In fact, he is dominating the tennis odds competition right now and is the only player in the world with more than 10,000 ranking points. Nadal heads the list with 11,880 points. Roger Federer the former world number one has climbed back into the second spot (7,335) in the world rankings after briefly falling to the 3rd spot. With yet another win at an ATP event in Stockholm this week he’s collected a healthy total of points after playing well on recent swing through China as well and has overtaken Novak Djokovic (7,145) in the world rankings.
But there remains a huge gap between Nadal and the rest of the top men’s players in the tennis betting action. He’s proven that he can win on any surface and is one of the rare talents in the history of the game to win a career Grand Slam. He’s also the most likely candidate to sweep the all four Grand Slam events in the same tennis odds season, something no one has achieved since the great Rod Laver.
Nadal’s competition in the top 10 rankings features a mix of old and new faces with talented Englishman Andy Murray currently ranked 4th followed by relative newcomers Robin Soderling and Tomas Berdych rounding out the top 6.
In a trend that has to worry traditional tennis odds powers like the US and Russia, they each only have one player currently ranked in the top ten in the tennis betting odds, whereas Spain has three players in the top 10 at the moment.
Andy Roddick is the lone American (#10) on the list and Mikhail Youzhny (#9) the only Russian. Nadal is followed in the rankings by countrymen Fernando Verdasco (#7) and David Ferrer.