Serbian Novak Djokovic, who on Sunday won the Indian Wells title, moved into second place in the world tennis rankings released by the ATP on Monday.
Djokovic, who beat former world number one Roger Federer in the semi-finals and as a result swapped places in the rankings with him, went on to beat Rafael Nadal in the final.
The Spaniard, however, continues to hold a convincing lead at the top of nearly 4,000 points.
ATP top 10 as of March 21 (previous ranking in parenthesis): 1. (1) Rafael Nadal, Spain, 12,630 2. (3) Novak Djokovic, Serbia, 8,710 3. (2) Roger Federer, Switzerland, 8,280 4. (4) Robin Soderling, Sweden, 5,735 5. (5) Andy Murray, Britain, 5,545 6. (6) David Ferrer, Spain, 4,510 7. (7) Tomas Berdych, Czech Republic, 4,320 8. (8) Andy Roddick, United States, 3,260 9. (9) Fernando Verdasco, Spain, 3,095 10. (10) Juergen Melzer, Austria, 2,695.
PTI adds from New Delhi
Reaping rich reward for his fantastic run at the Indian Wells Masters, Somdev Devvarman on Monday jumped 11 places to achieve his career-best singles ranking of 73 in the latest ATP list.
Somdev reached the prequarterfinals in Indian Wells, eventually losing to finalist and top seed Rafael Nadal but not without giving a good fight to the world number one Spaniard
