ATP Rankings Watch: October 7, 2010

Another week has passed and we saw two champions crowned last week.  Because of their wins, these two champions post big gains in this week's rankings. 

First is Mikhail Youzhny, who moves from #9 to #8, which boosts his chances to join the year-end championships in London. 

Reentering the Top 100 is Igor Andreev of Russia, who is the biggest mover this week, zooming 17 places from #102 to #85.  This was due to his semi-final appearance in Kuala Lumpur, where he was eventually defeated by the champion, Mikhail Youzhny.  Enroute to his SF appearance, Igor, had to defeat Nikolay Davydenko of Russia, a Top 10 player, Milos Raonic of Canada and Go Saeda of Japan.

The champion in Bangkok, Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, moves up 14 places, from #53 to #39, and cops a victory over a current #1 player, Rafael Nadal.

Andrey Golubev of Kazakhstan the runner-up in Kuala Lumpur, moves from #41 to #33 this week.  Golubev also had impressive wins over David Ferrer of Spain, Robin Soderling of Sweden, a Top 5 player, Kevin Anderson of South Africa and Yen-Hsun Lu of Chinese Taipei. 

Finally, Fabio Fognini of Italy moves from #71 to #65.  This may be due to an ITF title since he did not participate in both KL and Bangkok.