 So with the final weeks of the ATP season fast approaching, and Elkeres pulling out of Basel next week, it kind of changes things with this race to world number one, this three players in contention, Mevedev, Djokovic, Elkeras. We're going to go through the most likely scenarios of each guy and see which one might actually happen and who's got the best chances. So let's start with Mevedev because here's the hardest road back to world number one. So let's say Djokovic and Elkeras for some reason don't win any more matches for the rest of the year. They both lose first round Paris, they both lose all their matches at the ATP finals. Then Mevedev will have to win Vienna next week, win Paris the week after, and then go 3-0 in the group stages making the semifinals the ADB finals. That's the minimum requirement if he's going to get to world number one. So not very realistic of course, Mevedev could do all those things, but it's very unlikely that Djokovic for example is going to lose every match for the rest of the year. A more likely scenario for Mevedev, let's say he does win next week in Vienna, and Djokovic and Elkeras make it to the semifinals of Paris. Mevedev would have to win Paris and then going into the ADB finals would have to hope that both Elkeras and Djokovic don't make it through the group stage. Maybe they win one match each and then Mevedev would have to win the entire event to get to world number one. So that's a more likely scenario for Mevedev, but he's basically going to win everything from now on and hope that Elkeras and Djokovic again don't perform super well at the end of the year. So taking Mevedev out of the picture because let's be honest, he kind of needs a miracle to get to world number one and with Elkeras injured maybe he's halfway there. Let's stick with the two big guys. So Djokovic, how does he stay number one? So they're both not playing next week so no points change next week. If Djokovic does win Paris and beats Elkeras in the final then going into the ADB finals, Djokovic would only have to win all group stage matches to make the semis to force Elkeras to have to win the whole event. And even then, if Elkeras does win the whole event, it won't be enough because they will be even on points but Djokovic has played less events which gives him the world number one ranking. Now let's look at Elkeras's dream scenario. So if Djokovic does lose in the Paris semifinals and Elkeras does win the whole event, he's going to have to hope that Djokovic doesn't make it past the semifinals and he himself will have to make the final at the minimum to get that world number one ranking back. If Djokovic does get better than a semifinal in Paris or does make it into the finals of the ADB finals, then Elkeras is going to have to do a lot more but it really comes down to who wins Paris, not just between Djokovic and Elkeras but also with Medvedev, whoever wins Paris, if it's one of these guys, it's going to put them in a really good position going into the final tournament of the year of the ADB finals. So there it is, a little bit of a confusing situation I guess, it's kind of easy for Medvedev, if he doesn't win everything from now on he's probably not going to be world number one unless disaster strikes Djokovic. And you know Elkeras is already injured so that's also maybe a chance he could be number two in the world but to be number one he's going to have to hope that Djokovic has the worst end of a season ever. For Elkeras you know he's going to have to do a couple of things right, he's going to have to hope his body holds together, that's the hardest part for Elkeras, the world number one ranking is probably not even in his head, it's just staying healthy. Now if Djokovic does win Paris which he has done many times and he does do decent at the ADB finals which again he's done many times, he should be world number one so it should be Djokovic at the end of the year unless something catastrophic happens. To Novak or somebody has an absolute blinding end of the year but let me know down in the comments below who do you think is going to be world number one, do you think Elkeras can sneak it out in the end even though he's not playing next week or do you think Medvedev can come from nowhere to take it at the end but most likely going to be Djokovic and of course it should be, he's won three slams this year.