As Britian continues to celebrate Andy Murray's Wimbledon title, things aren't going quite as well for roger Federer.
Federer, who owns a men's record 17 Grand Slam titles in 10 years, his world ranking dropped to the lowest when the new standings released Monday.
Switzerland fell from third to fifth place in his Sergiy Stakhovshy upset loss to the second round at Wimbledon after he last held in June 2003, when he was not a big slam winner ranked match.
Federer. from his 32-year-old birthday month, responded to defeat into one pair of small clay tournament in Europe in an attempt to reverse the destiny.
He was sixth in the standings calender year, with the top eight to win a berth in the Finals in London.
Federer will play in next week's tennis tournament in Hamburg, Germany, before the election of the Swiss Open in Gstaad in the next week.
"I'm really looking forward to playing in front of my home fans in Gstaad this summer." Federer told his website this month. "I have got a lot of great memories of the tournament in the mountains of Switzerland."
Federer last played in Gstaad in 2004, winning the event for the only time. He lost his first four matches there before reaching the final in 2003 a week after his maiden grand slam triumph at Wimbledon.
While Federer frets over his drop in the rankings, man of the moment Murray is very much on the up.
He has spectacularly recovered- with the help of coach Ivan Lendl-- from losing his first four grand slam finals and in the 2011 semifinals at Wimbledon to Rafael Nadal when he was firmly in control.
He has now captured the last three Grand Slam event, he had participated in, and replace Federer to become the world's best grass court players, also claimed that in 2012 and Wimbledon in the Wimbledon warm-up last month Olympic gold medal in London.
"Under pressure right now Andy has two majors and a gold medal," his coach Ivan Lendl told British newspaper the Telegraph as he reflected on Murray's Wimbledon victory over Novak Djokovic on Sunday.
"Novak is a great player, don't get me wrong. He has had a phenomenal last 12 months, basically since the start of 2011, so the rankings look at all of that.
" {But} if somebody has two majors and an Olympic gold medal, and everybody else has only one major..." Lendl added, before tailing off. "Everybody can make their own opinion on that."
News from: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/09/sport/tennis/federer-rankings/index.html?hpt=ite_t1
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