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| Benoit Paire, © Toshifumi Kitamura / AFP |
The Big Gainer of the week award this week goes to Benoit Paire. He made it to the final in Tokyo, beating local favourite Kei Nishikori before losing to the top seed Stan Wawrinka, His run to the final gave Benoit 39 ELO rating points, placing him at a new ranking of #21 on my rankings, 13 places higher than last week.
This week's Upset player of the week is Tomas Berdych. he went to Beijing as the 2nd seed, but lost in the 1st round to one of the other strong performers of the week. His loss cost Tomas 15 ELO rating points, though he stays at his current ranking of #8 this week.
Other strong performers relative to their rankings are Gilles Muller, Pablo Cuevas, Austin Krajicek, Lu Yen-Hsun and Fabio Fognini.
Now, the the full rankings. New players in my rankings are marked with "NEW" in the ± column.
| # | Name | ELO | ± |
| 1 | Novak Djokovic | 1926 | 0 |
| 2 | Roger Federer | 1845 | 0 |
| 3 | Andy Murray | 1811 | 0 |
| 4 | Stan Wawrinka | 1747 | 1 |
| 5 | Kei Nishikori | 1734 | -1 |
| 6 | Rafael Nadal | 1733 | 0 |
| 7 | David Ferrer | 1723 | 0 |
| 8 | Tomas Berdych | 1697 | 0 |
| 9 | Richard Gasquet | 1687 | 0 |
| 10 | Kevin Anderson | 1669 | 0 |
| 11 | John Isner | 1660 | 3 |
| 12 | Marin Cilic | 1657 | 1 |
| 13 | Jo-Wilfried Tsonga | 1651 | -2 |
| 14 | Milos Raonic | 1648 | -2 |
| 15 | Gilles Simon | 1628 | 0 |
| 16 | Gael Monfils | 1615 | 0 |
| 17 | Philipp Kohlschreiber | 1609 | 0 |
| 18 | David Goffin | 1604 | 0 |
| 19 | Nick Kyrgios | 1604 | 3 |
| 20 | Roberto Bautista-Agut | 1603 | 1 |
| 21 | Benoit Paire | 1603 | 13 |
| 22 | Dominic Thiem | 1595 | -3 |
| 23 | Feliciano Lopez | 1592 | -3 |
| 24 | Jack Sock | 1591 | 2 |
| 25 | Fabio Fognini | 1591 | 7 |
| 26 | Gilles Muller | 1590 | 9 |
| 27 | Ivo Karlovic | 1587 | -2 |
| 28 | Grigor Dimitrov | 1579 | -5 |
| 29 | Tommy Robredo | 1577 | -5 |
| 30 | Jeremy Chardy | 1569 | 0 |
| 31 | Thomaz Bellucci | 1566 | -3 |
| 32 | Simone Bolelli | 1566 | 1 |
| 33 | Guillermo Garcia-Lopez | 1562 | -4 |
| 34 | Andreas Seppi | 1562 | -3 |
| 35 | Bernard Tomic | 1561 | -8 |
| 36 | Leonardo Mayer | 1550 | 0 |
| 37 | Steve Johnson | 1544 | 3 |
| 38 | Joao Sousa | 1541 | 0 |
| 39 | Marcos Baghdatis | 1536 | 3 |
| 40 | Alexandr Dolgopolov | 1535 | -3 |
| 41 | Victor Troicki | 1535 | 2 |
| 42 | Borna Coric | 1532 | -1 |
| 43 | Pablo Cuevas | 1531 | 10 |
| 44 | Fernando Verdasco | 1530 | -5 |
| 45 | Sam Querrey | 1527 | 0 |
| 46 | Vasek Pospisil | 1521 | 1 |
| 47 | Chung Hyeon | 1517 | 1 |
| 48 | Adrian Mannarino | 1515 | -4 |
| 49 | Rajeev Ram | 1515 | 0 |
| 50 | Pierre-Hugues Herbert | 1513 | 2 |
| 51 | Donald Young | 1512 | -5 |
| 52 | Juan Monaco | 1512 | 2 |
| 53 | Jerzy Janowicz | 1511 | 2 |
| 54 | Martin Klizan | 1507 | -4 |
| 55 | Nicolas Almagro | 1505 | 3 |
| 56 | Nicolas Mahut | 1505 | 3 |
| 57 | Mischa Zverev | 1504 | 4 |
| 58 | Denis Istomin | 1502 | -7 |
| 59 | Jiri Vesely | 1501 | 3 |
| 60 | Teymuraz Gabashvili | 1499 | -3 |
| 61 | Aljaz Bedene | 1498 | -5 |
| 62 | Sam Groth | 1496 | -2 |
| 63 | Alexander Zverev | 1495 | 0 |
| 64 | Marcel Granollers | 1494 | 0 |
| 65 | Lucas Pouille | 1491 | 0 |
| 66 | Dusan Lajovic | 1489 | 1 |
| 67 | Tatsuma Ito | 1489 | 4 |
| 68 | Radek Stepanek | 1487 | -2 |
| 69 | Austin Krajicek | 1487 | 15 |
| 70 | Yen-Hsun Lu | 1485 | 18 |
| 71 | Santiago Giraldo | 1484 | -2 |
| 72 | Thanasi Kokkinakis | 1483 | -2 |
| 73 | John Millman | 1481 | 6 |
| 74 | Federico Delbonis | 1480 | -2 |
| 75 | Victor Estrella Burgos | 1479 | -7 |
| 76 | Mikhail Kukushkin | 1479 | -3 |
| 77 | Steve Darcis | 1478 | -3 |
| 78 | Sergiy Stakhovsky | 1477 | -3 |
| 79 | Pablo Andujar | 1476 | -3 |
| 80 | Dustin Brown | 1476 | -3 |
| 81 | Andreas Haider-Maurer | 1475 | 4 |
| 82 | Robin Haase | 1474 | -4 |
| 83 | Michael Berrer | 1472 | -3 |
| 84 | Paul-Henri Mathieu | 1471 | -3 |
| 85 | Malek Jaziri | 1471 | -3 |
| 86 | Denis Kudla | 1469 | -3 |
| 87 | Lukas Rosol | 1469 | 6 |
| 88 | Jared Donaldson | 1467 | -2 |
| 89 | Marsel Ilhan | 1467 | -2 |
| 90 | Go Soeda | 1465 | -1 |
| 91 | Dudi Sela | 1464 | -1 |
| 92 | James Duckworth | 1463 | -1 |
| 93 | Pablo Carreno Busta | 1462 | -1 |
| 94 | Ricardas Berankis | 1460 | 0 |
| 95 | Diego Schwartzman | 1456 | 0 |
| 96 | Blaz Kavcic | 1450 | 2 |
| 97 | Albert Ramos-Vinolas | 1449 | -1 |
| 98 | Jarkko Nieminen | 1449 | 1 |
| 99 | Benjamin Becker | 1446 | 1 |
| 100 | Daniel Gimeno-Traver | 1443 | 1 |
| 101 | Matthew Ebden | 1442 | -4 |
| 102 | Tommy Haas | 1440 | 0 |
| 103 | Ernests Gulbis | 1436 | 0 |
| 104 | Lleyton Hewitt | 1431 | 0 |
| 105 | James Ward | 1430 | 0 |
| 106 | Tim Smyczek | 1427 | 0 |
| 107 | Mikhail Youzhny | 1418 | 0 |
| 108 | Joao Souza | 1412 | 0 |
| 109 | Paolo Lorenzi | 1410 | 0 |
| 110 | Lukas Lacko | 1397 | 0 |
