But she does look set to improve on her official world ranking of 30.
Mexico moves all the way down into the 50s in the per capita category, hence its Third World ranking.
Sharapova, who was unseeded after injuries hit her world ranking, had her serve broken six times in the match.
Hewitt has seen his world ranking drop to 19th in the last year.
And a world ranking of 56 - below Qatar and Honduras - only serves to underline this sad fact.
"Even though the injury made my world ranking plunge, it also made me grow up a lot, " she recalls.
But in 2002, though he did not win a title, dogged consistency led to him reaching his career-high world ranking of six.
The former U.S. Open champion missed his past four cuts and had plunged to No. 79 in the world ranking.
Look at all the world ranking points I've won - I was leading that by a mile before my injury.
Benjamin Becker pulled off another surprise, making up 51 world ranking places to undo fellow German Rainer Schuettler 6-4 2-6 6-4.
On 21 December they will play Central Americans El Salvador, who have a world ranking of 93, some 45 places below Zimbabwe.
This year it is likely to sell more than 3 million, placing it sixth in world ranking, ( see table), by volume.
His world ranking prior entering the 18-player Chevron World Challenge was 52nd.
The 2002 Wimbledon runner-up has seen his world ranking fall to 117 after undergoing hip surgery and then a sustaining a hamstring injury.
Even though he did not play last week, Dredge has leapfrogged England's Justin Rose into 50th place by just 0.01 world ranking points.
Our goal was, if we are going to do it, to be at least No. 1 in China and seek a world ranking.
He has slid from second in the world ranking to third behind Steve Stricker after just one top-10 finish in seven starts this season.
His opponent Wednesday was Federico Delbonis, a 22-year-old from Argentina who entered the match with world ranking of 113 and a career record of 9-14.
The other three players to qualify for the Masters through the world ranking are South African Charl Schwartzel, Alvaro Quiros of Spain and Thai Thongchai Jaidee.
But I do know I've probably played the most consistent golf in the world over the last two years, and that reflects in my world ranking.
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"I couldn't tell you, it's been so long, " said Weekley, who moved up to No. 55 in the world ranking, making him eligible for the U.S. Open.
As in the downhill, the skiers decide their own starting position with a complex formula using the skiers' world ranking points determining the order they choose in.
Since January, Nalbandian has pulled out of tournaments in Barcelona and Rome with a knee problems and has seen his world ranking drop to 150 as a consequence.
Woods last was atop the world ranking in the final week of October 2010, a span of 125 weeks that represented his longest spell out of the top spot.
Dredge, Dodd, Price and co are mere also-rans at any other event, but at the Celtic Manor they are billed as some of the star attractions, without a world ranking to match.
Second seed Nadal, who will now overtake Novak Djokovic and return to number two in the world ranking, dropped his first set of the tournament against fellow- Spaniard Nicolas Almagro.
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