Hopefully peaking at the right time, Sweden's Robin Soderling displaced Andy Murray as the new No. 4 men's player in the world in the most recent ATP rankings.

With only the Barclay ATP World Tour Finals -- which start Tuesday afternoon -- left on the schedule, Soderling achieved his highest-ever ranking by defeating Gael Monfils for the title at Paris Sunday. Dropping to fifth has Murray out of the Top 4 for the first time since Jan. 11.

Idle Jo-Wilfried Tsonga saw himself drop two more spots in the rankings and no longer the top-rated Frenchman, having been passed at No. 12 by Monfils. It's Monfils' highest ranking since Jan. 11.

Also moving up a spot to a career best is Austria's Jurgen Melzer, the new No. 11. Melzer is 51-25 at age 29, an impressive feat, particularly considering he started the year ranked 28th.

  Other moves inside the Top 20 saw Marin Cilic rise to 14th, Nicolas Almargo to 15th and Americans Mardy Fish and Sam Querrey each climbing two spots. The resurgent Fish moved up to 16th, the highest ranking of his career, while Querrey hit a career-best 18th, one ahead of fellow American and doubles partner John Isner.

 


Plunging from 22nd all the way to 11th this week was Russian Nikolay Davydenko, who lost all 1,300 of the points he won by taking the crown at the ATP Finals a year ago by not qualifying this year.

Remarkably, the player ranked just behind him moved up 11 spots to the intersection. France's Michael Llodra made a spirited run to the Paris semifinals to reach No. 23 in the world.

The biggest fall in the Top 100 came from the Czech Republic's Radek Stepanek. Ranked as high as eighth in 2006, Stepanek dropped 22 places to 63rd when he fell in the third round of Paris a year after reaching the semifinals. It has been a truly tough year for Stepanek, just 18-16 on the court, considering he was ranked 12th to start the season.

The biggest jump of the week came from Michel Przysiezny of Poland, who won the Ortisei Challenger to move from 100th to 76th.

The Bryan Brothers remained No. 1 in men's doubles by a huge margin. India's Mahesh Bhupathi was the biggest mover on the board, jumping seven spots to No. 6 in the world after teaming with Belarus' Max Mirnyi to win Paris. It is the 36-year-old Bhupathi's 10th different stint ranked in the Top 10, dating back to his first in October of 1997.