2017 ATP Year-End Top 100 Predictions

Kevin Craig and I are going head-to-head for the second year in a row, predicting the year-end top 100 in the ATP. Kevin won handily last year. Here are our predictions:

Rank	Kevin Craig	Jared Pine
1	Novak Djokovic	Novak Djokovic
2	Milos Raonic	Andy Murray
3	Roger Federer	Milos Raonic
4	Andy Murray	Kei Nishikori
5	Stan Wawrinka	Rafael Nadal
6	Nick Kyrgios	Dominic Thiem
7	Lucas Pouille	Marin Cilic
8	Dominic Thiem	Nick Kyrgios
9	Kei Nishikori	Grigor Dimitrov
10	Juan Martin del Potro	Jack Sock
11	Marin Cilic	Stan Wawrinka
12	Rafael Nadal	David Goffin
13	Alex Zverev	Tomas Berdcyh
14	Jack Sock	Roger Federer
15	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	Lucas Pouille
16	Grigor Dimitrov	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
17	David Goffin	Alexander Zverev
18	Gael Monfils	Bernard Tomic
19	Tomas Berdych	Steve Johnson
20	Bernard Tomic	Roberto Bautista Agut
21	Steve Johnson	John Isner
22	Roberto Bautista Agut	Gael Monfils
23	Sam Querrey	Pablo Carreno Busta
24	Pablo Carreno Busta	Ricahrd Gasquet
25	David Ferrer	Borna Coric
26	Borna Coric	Pablo Cuevas
27	John Isner	Albert Ramos
28	Richard Gasquet	Viktor Troicki
29	Kyle Edmund	Kyle Edmund
30	Karen Khachanov	Andrey Kuznetsov
31	Jiri Vesely	Karen Khachanov
32	Federico Delbonis	Jiri Vesely
33	Martin Klizan	Gilles Simon
34	Mischa Zverev	Martin Klizan
35	Pablo Cuevas	Juan Martin del Potro
36	Fernando Verdasco	Taylor Fritz
37	Joao Sousa	Diego Schwartzman
38	Fabio Fognini	Sam Querrey
39	Gilles Simon	Kevin Anderson
40	Marcos Baghdatis	David Ferrer
41	Gilles Muller	Gerald Melzer
42	Feliciano Lopez	Jeremy Chardy
43	Kevin Anderson	Benoit Paire
44	Nicolas Almagro	Daniel Evans
45	Ivo Karlovic	Joao Sousa
46	Alex Dolgopolov	Hyeon Chung
47	Taylor Fritz	Alexandr Dolgopolov
48	Hyeon Chung	Adam Pavlasek
49	Thomaz Bellucci	Renzo Olivo
50	Albert Ramos-Vinolas	Jordan Thompson
51	Viktor Troicki	Philipp Kohlschreiber
52	Ryan Harrison	Pierre-Hugues Herbert
53	Facundo Bagnis	Gilles Muller
54	Marcel Granollers	Marcel Granollers
55	Guido Pella	Nicolas Almagro
56	Jeremy Chardy	Facundo Bagnis
57	Donald Young	Guido Pella
58	Juan Monaco	Adrian Mannarino
59	Nicolas Mahut	Jan-Lennard Struff
60	Daniil Medvedev	Damir Dzumhur
61	Jordan Thompson	Dusan Lajovic
62	Adam Pavlasek	Ricardas Berankis
63	Dustin Brown	Gastao Elias
64	Andrey Kuznetsov	Ryan Harrison
65	Frances Tiafoe	Mischa Zverev
66	Tommy Robredo	John Millman
67	Vasek Pospisil	Florian Mayer
68	Pierre-Hugues Herbert	Nikoloz Basilashvili
69	Diego Schwartzman	Daniil Medvedev
70	Phillip Kohlschreiber	Illya Marchenko
71	John Millman	Ivo Karlovic
72	Robin Haase	Fernando Verdasco
73	Stefan Kozlov	Fabio Fognini
74	Denis Istomin	Thomaz Bellucci
75	Reilly Opelka	Yoshihito Nishioka
76	Adrian Mannarino	Vasek Pospisil
77	Illya Marchenko	Mikhail Kukushkin
78	Guillermo Garcia-Lopez	Jared Donaldson
79	Paolo Lorenzi	Malek Jaziri
80	Julien Benneteau	Santiago Giraldo
81	Benoit Paire	Frances Tiafoe
82	Jared Donaldson	Feliciano Lopez
83	Andreas Seppi	Marcos Baghdatis
84	Yoshihito Nishioka	Andrey Rublev
85	Damir Dzumhur	Elias Ymer
86	Jan-Lennard Struff	Duckhee Lee
87	Mikhail Youzhny	Bjorn Fratangelo
88	Daniel Evans	Dustin Brown
89	Malek Jaziri	Taro Daniel
90	Radek Stepanek	Juan Monaco
91	Radu Albot	Ernesto Escobedo
92	Denis Kudla	Quentin Halys
93	Rajeev Ram	Laslo Djere
94	Peter Polansky	Noah Rubin
95	Lukas Rosol	Stefan Kozlov
96	Stefanos Tsitsipas	Michael Mmoh
97	Ernesto Escobedo	James Duckworth
98	Jozef Kovalik	Denis Shapovalov
99	Henri Laaksonen	Andreas Seppi
100	Jerzy Janowicz	Casper Ruud

If there was any doubt that it's hard to guess the top 100 in the world 52 weeks in advance, consider the fact that Kevin and I only have three picks in common: Novak Djokovic at No. 1, Kyle Edmund at No. 29, and Marcel Granollers at No. 54. Considering how far off some of the other predictions are, the fact that Edmund and Granollers are the same on both of our lists are more of a sign of coincidence than our combined tennis knowledge.

Kevin's bold predictions: Roger Federer at No. 3, Lucas Pouille at No. 7, and Reilly Opelka at No. 75.

Jared's bold predictions: Rafael Nadal at No. 5, Grigor Dimitrov at No. 9, and Gerald Melzer at No. 41.

Kevin's pessimistic picks: Kei Nishikori at No. 9, Rafael Nadal at No. 12, and Tomas Berdych at No. 19.

Jared's pessimistic picks: Roger Federer at No. 14, Gael Monfils at No. 22, and Juan Martin del Potro at No. 35.

Missing from Kevin's top 100: Gerald Melzer, Florian Mayer, and Nikoloz Basilashvili

Missing from Jared's top 100: Nicolas Mahut, Robin Haase, and Tommy Robredo

United States Top 10 Predictions

Rank	Kevin Craig	Jared Pine
1	Jack Sock (14)	Jack Sock (10)
2	Steve Johnson (21)	Steve Johnson (19)
3	Sam Querrey (23)	John Isner (21)
4	John Isner (27)	Taylor Fritz (36)
5	Taylor Fritz (47)	Sam Querrey (38)
6	Ryan Harrison (52)	Ryan Harrison (64)
7	Donald Young (57)	Jared Donaldson (78)
8	Frances Tiafoe (65)	Frances Tiafoe (81)
9	Stefan Kozlov (73)	Bjorn Fratangelo (87)
10	Reilly Opelka (75)	Ernesto Escobedo (91)

Opposite of last year, I'm the optimistic one for Sock, Johnson, and Isner, while Kevin has high hopes for Querrey, Harrison, and Young. Both of us are expecting good years from the players born in the final years of the 20th century.

Across the board, expectations for American tennis 2017 are higher than they have been in nearly a decade and its not without good reason. Kevin and I have different predictions about which Americans will have success in the next 52 weeks, but there is no doubt that this will be a good year for more than just a couple of players representing the stars and stripes.