Sock and Goerges score big

Jack Sock recovered from losing the opening set and won the Paris Masters 1000 final against qualifier Filip Krajinovic.

The American 16th seed has suddenly leapt 13 rungs into the world top ten, grabbing the number nine spot.

Serbia’s Krajinovic sits at 33, only nine spots below Milos Raonic, whose absence has cost him a drop of 12 places this week.

Long term injuries are costly - Nishikori has finally slipped from a solid top ten ranking to 22. Number ones from 2016, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray, are now 12 and 16 respectively. Murray dropped 13 places after missing Paris.

Only Stan Wawrinka, of the players injured and out for the last part of 2017, has held onto a top ten ranking (7).

The two ‘comeback kids’ are up and away from the rest of the field:

1 Nadal 10,645 points

2 Federer 9,005 points

3 A Zverev 4,410 points

Zhuhai saw the completion of the WTA tour with the final of the Hengqin Life WTA Elite Trophy held.

Seventh seed Julia Goerges won her second title in a fortnight, following Moscow, by proving too strong for Coco Vandeweghe in straight sets 7-5 6-1.

This was after being down 2-5 in the first set.

Julia lost the first set she played in the tournament, and proceeded to win every set henceforth.

End of year rankings are such:

1. Simona Halep 6175 points (ended 2016 at 4)

2. Garbine Muguruza 6135 (7)

3. Caroline Wozniacki 6015 (19)

4. Karolina Pliskova 5730 (6)

5. Venus Williams 5597 (17)

6. Elina Svitolina 5500 (14)

7. Jelena Ostapenko 5010 (44)

8. Caroline Garcia 4420 (24)

9. Johanna Konta 3610 (10)

10. Coco Vandeweghe 3258 (36)

Those tumbling from the top ten at end of 2016:

1 Angie Kerber (now 21)

2 Serena Williams (22) good excuse !

3 Aga Radwanska (28)

5 Dominika Cibulkova (26)

8 Madison Keys (19)

9 Sveta Kuznetsova (12)