Fish into top ten as Nadal heads rankings

American Mardy Fish moved into the top ten of the world tennis rankings released on Monday by the governing body ATP.

Fish moved to a career-high 10th place, pushing out Spain’s Fernando Verdasco, who was ranked eighth last week.

Rafael Nadal, who picked up a seventh straight title at the Monte Carlo Masters on Sunday, continues to lead the rankings by more than 3,000 points from Serbian Novak Djokovic. Nadal has 12,870 points, while Djokovic stands on 9,640.

ATP top 10 as of April 18 (previous ranking in parenthesis): 1. (1) Rafael Nadal, Spain, 12,870 2. (2) Novak Djokovic, Serbia, 9,640 3. (3) Roger Federer, Switzerland, 8,550 4. (4) Andy Murray, Britain, 5,905 5. (5) Robin Soderling, Sweden, 5,420 6. (6) David Ferrer, Spain, 4,840 7. (7) Tomas Berdych, Czech Republic, 3,900 8. (9) Juergen Melzer, Austria, 2,975 9. (10) Gael Monfils, France 2600 10. (11) Mardy Fish, US 2401.