Well, if you were to tell me that both Felix and Denis were playing today, and one of them would win the first set only to lose the ensuing three to bow out in the first round, and the other would lose two tiebreakers but gut his way through to a 5 set victory... I would not have guessed who was who.
Anyway, this affects Felix's 9th overall ranking not at all of course. I was interested that in the top 50, this whole "everyone loses immediately before the first round" ranking scenario doesn't really cause all that much chaos. Denis drops 7 spots and that's about as bad or as good as anyone does as a result. On the women's side, Pliskova and Kerber drop 8 and 12 spots respectively, everyone else is more or less where they were.
Interestingly other than those two, the player who has the worst time of it in the top 40 is Kalinina... who is Ukrainian. Every Russian woman in the top 50 either stayed put or gained ranking position; both Ukrainians lost position. On the men's side, Khachanov lost 5 spots, Karatsev gained 2, Rublev and Medvedev stayed the same.
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