Kukushkin and other Kazakh tennis stars tumble in ATP rankings
ASTANA. August 12. KAZINFORM Majority of Kazakhstan's tennis stars have gone down in ATP rankings over the last week, Vesti.kz web portal says.
The top-seeded Kazakh tennis champ Andrey Golubev plunged from 140th to 143rd place in the rankings. Mikhail Kukushkin lost 12 positions and is currently ranked 174th by ATP. Evgeny Korolev failed to comeback to the top 200 players in the world. He is still placed 216th. Yuri Schukin sank down to the 702nd position after loosing 49 lines of the ranking.
It seems like Novak Djokovic (Serbia) and Andy Murray (Great Britain) are glued to the first two positions of the ATP rankings. However, Rafael Nadal of Spain stunned last week by making his triumphant comeback to the top 3. He ousted his fellow countryman David Ferrer to the 4th spot.