All good things must come to an end.

[SachDan]

Roger Federer's 235 week reign at the top will come to an end if Nadal manages to win the Cincinnati Masters...He hasn't a won a Grandslam this year.Lost in the first round of the Rogers Masters.Now here in the third round it self. He has suddenly been pushed to mortality and the way Nadal has been shaping up on all courts,it seems most players on the circuit will love to have a win against Rafa rather than Federer.

[SachDan]

Rafael Nadal guaranteed he would become the third Spanish man to top the world rankings with a 7-6, 6-1 victory over Ecuador's Nicolas Lapentti in the quarter-finals of the Cincinnati Masters on Friday. By beating Lapentti, Nadal will end Roger Federer's four-and-a-half-year reign as world number one on Aug. 18 at the latest, or as early as Monday if he takes the Cincinnati title. :yay::yay::yay: