Roger Federer, who on Sunday won his home event in Basle, has closed the gap on Rafael Nadal in the latest men’s top 10 tennis rankings issued by ATP on Monday.
Nadal still has a convincing lead of more than 4,000 points, but Federer closed the gap by 200 points and could move even closer with a good showing at the Paris Masters this week.
ATP top 10 as of November 8 (previous ranking in parenthesis): 1. (1) Rafael Nadal, Spain, 11,880 points 2. (2) Roger Federer, Switzerland, 7,695 3. (3) Novak Djokovic, Serbia, 6,945 4. (4) Andy Murray, Britain, 5,670 5. (5) Robin Soderling, Sweden, 4,960 6. (6) Tomas Berdych, Czech Republic, 3,710 7. (8) David Ferrer, Spain, 3,645 8. (9) Andy Roddick, US, 3,485 9. (7) Fernando Verdasco, Spain, 3,240 10. (10) Mikhail Youzhny, Russia, 2,955.
