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.

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The St Louis Cardinals franchise is among the most storied in the game of baseball, with 11 world championships ranking only second behind the Yankees.

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George Morgan, who currently has a junior world ranking of 45 - making him second in the British standings behind Wimbledon boys semi-finalist Oliver Golding, who is ranked number 29 - disagrees with this theory.

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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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