If you catch http://www.atptennis.com/3/en/rankings/entrysystem/Default.asp?showall=1&RankDate=11%2F24%2F2008&country=Great+Britain&rank=0&image1.x=18&image1.y=7 before they correct it, you'll see that they seem to have lost about 600 players!

As Steven says, they have "lost" about 600 players, and 17 of them are Brits. . .

Well done, ATP! I'm used to them making mistakes in the rankings tables but this has to be the biggest ever.

Perhaps they've decided that since they're going to double this year's points at the start of 2009 but less than double this year's points are going to be available per tournament next year (e.g. even for slams where the winner gets 2000, the points for earlier rounds are less than double what they were this year), they'd better find a way to 'lose' a load of points from the system, and Etienne de Villiers thought randomly excluding 1/3 of the players would bea good way to do it without anybody noticing.

"Well 2 out of 3 players will be in favour, that's a working majority ..."

I used the "contact us" on the site to report the problem, but it still hasn't been corrected.

Actually when you think that very many players share the same ranking when you get down to ranking points in single figures, the amount missing must be much more than 600. How on earth can they make such a mistake and not even realise?

I was amazed so many Brits had risen up the rankings this morning. Knew there had to be a problem!

Sorted now.