2013 in Review

For the past few years, I have spent the tennis off-season predicting what will happen in the upcoming season. Since the start of the 2012 season, what I have done is predicted what the rankings will be of the top 100 at the end of the season. On my first try, I correctly predicted the 2012 year-end ranking of six players. However, I was wrong by 31.1 spots on average for each player. In predicting the year-end ranking for 2013, I had three perfect picks and missed by 31.56 spots on average. I just finished my predictions for the 2014 year-end rankings. However I will be updating them to try to improve them up until the first match of the season in Brisbane. Let me know what you think of my predictions. Which names did I leave off the list? Who did I predict to do to well? Who am I underestimating? I want to hear your thoughts.

Nadal and Djokovic have both finished in the top two for two of the past
three years, and 2014 shouldn't be any different.

Rank Name                             Current Ranking

1	Novak Djokovic	2
2	Rafael Nadal	1
3	Andy Murray	4
4	Juan Martin del Potro	5
5	Roger Federer	6
6	Tomas Berdych	7
7	David Ferrer	3
8	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	10
9	Stanislas Wawrinka	8
10	Milos Raonic	11
11	Richard Gasquet	9
12	Nicolas Almagro	13
13	Jerzy Janowicz	21
14	Marin Cilic	37
15	Grigor Dimitrov	23
16	John Isner	14
17	Kei Nishikori	17
18	Fabio Fognini	16
19	Kevin Anderson	20
20	Ernests Gulbis	24
21	Gilles Simon	19
22	Benoit Paire	26
23	Sam Querrey	46
24	Gael Monfils	31
25	Denis Istomin	45
26	Bernard Tomic	51
27	Tommy Haas	12
28	Jeremy Chardy	34
29	Mikhail Youzhny	15
30	Philipp Kohlschreiber	22
31	Daniel Brands	54
32	Janko Tipsarevic	36
33	Fernando Verdasco	30
34	Vasek Pospisil	32
35	Alexandr Dolgopolov	57
36	Marinko Matosevic	61
37	Frederico Delbonis	55
38	Santiago Giraldo	69
39	Tommy Robredo	18
40	Andreas Seppi	25
41	Dmitry Tursunov	29
42	Jurgen Melzer	27
43	Ivan Dodig	33
44	Marcel Granollers	38
45	Feliciano Lopez	28
46	Juan Monaco	42
47	Robin Haase	43
48	Joao Sousa	49
49	Roberto Bautsita Agut	58
50	Julien Benneteau	35
51	Jarkko Nieminen	39
52	Lukas Rosol	47
53	Ryan Harrison	100
54	Edouard Roger-Vasselin	52
55	Pablo Carreno Busta	64
56	Matthew Ebden	68
57	Lukas Lacko	81
58	Jiri Vesely	85
59	Jack Sock	102
60	Somdev Devvarman	90
61	Marcos Baghdatis	87
62	Bradley Klahn	97
63	Martin Klizan	108
64	Albert Ramos	83
65	Igor Sijsling	70
66	Leonardo Mayer	94
67	Thomaz Bellucci	125
68	Florian Mayer	40
69	Donald Young	96
70	Julian Reister	86
71	Pablo Andujar	48
72	Ricardas Berankis	131
73	Guillermo Garcia-Lopez	62
74	Yen-Hsun Lu	65
75	David Goffin	110
76	Mikhail Kukushkin	67
77	Grega Zemlja	121
78	Carlos Berlocq	41
79	Tobias Kamke	74
80	Adrian Mannarino	59
81	Michal Przysiezny	66
82	Denis Kudla	114
83	Dusan Lajovic	116
84	Aljaz Bedene	95
85	Tim Smyczek	89
86	Teymuraz Gabashvili	76
87	Steve Johnson	156
88	Daniel Gimeno-Traver	77
89	Nick Kyrgios	182
90	Andrey Golubev	82
91	Rhyne Williams	130
92	Alex Bogomolov Jr.	88
93	Guido Pella	118
94	Alejando Falla	99
95	Sergiy Stakhovsky	98
96	Horacio Zeballos	56
97	Alejando Gonzalez	91
98	Dominic Thiem	139
99	Viktor Troicki	75
100	Guillaume Rufin	137

 

Notable missing players: Lleyton Hewitt, Radek Stepanek, Nicolas Mahut, Nikolay Davydenko, Albert Montanes, Filippo Volandri, Ivo Karlovic, Benjamin Becker, Victor Hanescu, Lukasz Kubot, Kenny De Schepper, Michael Russell, Go Soeda, Dustin Brown