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If there were no Big 4… Nishikori would rule the world! Here’s why.  I compared the head-to-heads of the current top 12 (substituting Tsonga for FLopez, since Jo-W has quite a history in the top 10).  After the Big 4 is, what I’m calling, the Next 8.  Here’s their h2h % against the rest of the top 12: Nishikori 51.6% Wawrinka 40.8% Ferrer 38.2% Tsonga 33.0% Berdych 32.8% Cilic 26.8% Raonic 24.5% Dimitrov 22.7% Wawrinka has a slam title and Ferrer was in the top 5 for quite a while – is he the best player never to win a slam?  But I was surprised to see Kei at the top of this list.  He’s really blossomed in the last year, but I didn’t think that was enough time to top a career (so far) list.  That tells me he’s been at his winning ways for a while. On the bottom end, Dimitrov and Raonic are distinctly not looking like world-beating tal...