Saturday, January 3, 2015

2014 Year-end Country Rankings

2014 was a year that had many surprises on the ATP with two first time slam winners among other surprises, but it was the same countries again that dominated the tour as normal. The one exception was Argentina, who suffered this year with injuries to a handful of its top players during the year, including most-notably to Juan Martin del Potro.

These are my final rankings for the top tennis countries in 2014. I also included my predictions on which of the current top 20 countries will do better, worse or stay the same in 2015.

1. Spain - Stay (but Spain's lead over the pack will shrink significantly)
2. France - Stay
3. Switzerland - Drop
4. Serbia - Rise
5. Czech Republic - Drop
6. United States - Rise
7. Germany - Drop
8. Croatia - Stay
9. Japan - Drop
10. Argentina - Rise
11. Canada - Rise
12. Great Britain - Rise
13. Australia - Rise
14. Italy - Drop
15. Bulgaria - Rise
16. Russia - Drop
17. Latvia - Stay
18. Colombia - Stay
19. Ukraine - Rise
20. Austria - Stay
21. Slovakia
22. South Africa
23. Kazakhstan
24. Belgium
25. Chinese Taipei
26. Uzbekistan
27. Netherlands
28. Portugal
29. Uruguay
30. Slovenia
31. Poland
32. Luxembourg
33. Brazil
34. Finland
35. Tunisia
36. Dominican Republic
37. Cyprus
38. Lithuania
39. Brazil
40. Israel
41. Turkey
42. Bosnia & Herzegovina
43. Romania
44. India

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