Since 2012, Jared Pine has attempted to predict what the year-end rankings will look like for the Top 100 before each season starts. This year, I've taken a page out of his book and attempted to do the same thing. Have a look at his 2016 predictions, here.
Lo and behold, my inaugural Top 100 Year End Rankings Predictions.
1. Novak Djokovic
2. Andy Murray
3. Rafael Nadal
4. Stan Wawrinka
5. Milos Raonic
6. Roger Federer
7. Kei Nishikori
8. John Isner
9. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
10. Tomas Berdych
11. David Ferrer
12. Grigor Dimitrov
13. Kevin Anderson
14. Jack Sock
15. Domonic Thiem
16. Bernard Tomic
17. Marin Cilic
18. Nick Kyrgios
19. David Goffin
20. Roberto Bautista Agut
21. Steve Johnson
22. Richard Gasquet
23. Vasek Pospisil
24. Fabio Fognini
25. Gael Monfils
26. Benoit Paire
27. Borna Coric
28. Donald Young
29. Joao Sousa
30. Marcos Baghdatis
31. Feliciano Lopez
32. Jiri Vesely
33. Gilles Simon
34. Jeremy Chardy
35. Viktor Troicki
36. Ivo Karlovic
37. Fernando Verdasco
38. Juan Monaco
39. Sam Groth
40. Aljaz Bedene
41. Pablo Carreno Busta
42. Alex Dolgopolov
43. Thomaz Bellucci
44. Martin Klizan
45. Ernests Gulbis
46. Leonardo Mayer
47. Denis Kudla
48. Andreas Seppi
49. Victor Estrella Burgos
50. Sam Querrey
51. Alex Zverev
52. Diego Schwartzman
53. Phillip Kohlschreiber
54. Pablo Andujar
55. Lucas Pouille
56. Nicolas Almagro
57. Thanasi Kokkinakis
58. Hyeon Chung
59. Lukas Rosol
60. Gilles Muller
61. Santiago Giraldo
62. Jerzy Janowicz
63. Guillermo Garcia-Lopez
64. Guido Pella
65. Ryan Harrison
66. Teymuraz Gabashvili
67. Andreas Haider-Maurer
68. Robin Haase
69. Simone Bolelli
70. Rajeev Ram
71. Nicolas Mahut
72. Ricardas Berankis
73. Tommy Robredo
74. Denis Istomin
75. Mischa Zverev
76. Adrian Mannarino
77. Mikhail Kukushkin
78. Ivan Dodig
79. Pablo Cuevas
80. Andrey Kuznetsov
81. Kyle Edmund
82. Ruben Bemelmans
83. Federico Delbonis
84. Yuki Bhambri
85. Inigo Cervantes
86. Taylor Fritz
87. Sergiy Stakhovsky
88. Elias Ymer
89. James Duckworth
90. Austin Krajicek
91. Yoshihito Nishioka
92. Mikhail Youzhny
93. John Millman
94. Andrey Rublev
95. Matt Ebden
96. Paolo Lorenzi
97. Albert Ramos-Vinolas
98. Daniel Munoz de la Nava
99. Jared Donaldson
100. Dusan Lajovic
I will check back to my predictions periodically throughout the year to see how they are holding up. Feel like I put some players too high or too low? Or left some players out completely? Feel free to let me know at @KCraig_Tennis.
