Serve and volley world rankings: Pierre-Hugues Herbert leads, Maxime Cressy soon number 1?
According to the world rankings, who is currently the best serve and volley player?
by Florian Goosmann
last edit: Oct 20, 2021, 10:22 am
It is absolutely wonderful what rankings are available for. Or bad - depending on where you are listed. It's also wonderful what ideas some users come up with on Twitter or what specialty areas they cover.
The acoount @servevolleyer is one of them. Anyone who grew up with Stefan Edberg and is still a fan of the cultivated serve volleyball game cannot ignore him. @servevolleyer only provides information about the serve and volley players, where they are playing, when they are playing, how they have been playing.
And: It brings a weekly update in terms of world rankings. Namely the world rankings of serve and volley players.
Maxime Cressy and Mats Rosenkranz give hope
The Frenchman Pierre-Hugues Herbert currently leads the special rankings (in real life he is just under the top 100 at 97th place), ahead of Feliciano Lopez (109th), Maxime Cressy (143rd), Ramkumar Ramanathan (191st) .) and Ivo Kavlovic (230.).
Then follows a German row: Dustin Brown (335.) would be number 7 in the ranking, Mischa Zverev (339.) would be number 8 and the most recently successful Mats Rosenkranz (381.) would be number 9. Before Nicolas Mahut (409.) on the 10th
Maxime Cressy on the way to number 1?
It is noticeable that many of the named have already seen better times: Lopez, Karlovic, Brown, Zverev, Mahut - they have all been in the top 100 for a long time, sometimes in the top 20 (Lopez, Karlovic). And everyone is approaching 40, Karlovic and Lopez have already passed it.
So bad times for serve and volley, even worse than already? After all, there are two bearers of hope: Cressy and Rosenkranz. Cressy had recently thrilled at the US Open, where he defeated Pablo Carreno Busta. And Rosenkranz has made up more than 100 places in the ranking this week thanks to his semi-finals in Mouilleron-Le-Captif (after beating the "world number one" Herbert).
Both are 24 years old, but serve-and-volley is known to take time. At least in our world rankings, Cressy could soon be number 1.