Australia's over but the 2012 tennis year has really just become. Who came out of Oz on fire and who needs a jumpstart? Time for a round of Power Rankings.
Is it me or is 2012 beginning to look a lot like last year? It is for Novak Djokovic at least. He came into this Australian swing with some legitimate question marks about his fitness and his state of mind; he left the land Down Under back on top. Djokovic captured his fifth major and a seventh consecutive win over World No. 2 Rafael Nadal, albeit in a near six hour epic that showed the two players may be on closer terms than they seemed a year prior. Just seven matches from the Nole Slam in Paris you have to think, wouldn't that be an interesting feather in the Serb's cap? Federer could be the greatest ever, Nadal could be the greatest clay-courter ever and Djokovic could be the only one of the three to win four majors in a row. You want to talk Greatest Generation? Only seven men have captured the career grand slam and Djokovic could be the third to do it in four years...all while beating TWO of the others to get there. Why are we getting ahead of ourselves? Djokovic beat Nadal on clay twice last year, just saying. In any event, the next few months are on hardcourts. Djokovic has won the last three majors on the hard stuff...up next, defending the Indian Wells-Key Biscayne double.
1. Novak Djokovic (SRB) Last Month: (2)
