As in one-day cricket, the balance between attacking and defending, between bat and ball, is out of whack.
Nadal has no ranking points to defend between now and the end of the year and will need only a moderate autumn campaign to recapture the top spot.
With no ranking points to defend between now and the ATP World Tour finals in London next month, the 27-year-old Spaniard looks a strong favourite to climb above the Serb.
The Uruguayan capital was defended by between 3,500 and 4,000 armed men with little to no combat experience and 40 artillery pieces of various calibers.
The remainder of the 24th Brigade was transported across the bay during the last week of June, and the force advanced inland to capture the town of Beaufort which was defended by between 800 and 1000 Japanese personnel.
Sixty French divisions attacked near Reims and on the Chemin des Dames, a deeply defended ridge between two river valleys in the Aisne.
This assumption naturally leads to the conclusion that although the benefits of mimicry may be greater for the less unpalatable species [21], mimicry between defended species is mutually beneficial even if large discrepancies exist between their defense levels [7], [9].
But she defended the relationship between the governor and the company.
In California, "Chicano" is the designation of choice when the speaker wishes to invoke an identity at once Mexican and American, and something else as well: a consciously defended middle ground between tradition and assimilation.
Selig said he was stunned when Palmeiro tested positive, and he defended the gap between the test result and the suspension by insisting that it was made public soon after the arbitrator Shyam Das ruled against Palmeiro.
By contrast, Adrastus of Aphrodisias defended the relationship between the Categories and the Topics in a work entitled Concerning the Order of Aristotle's Treatises (Simplicius, In Cat. 16. 1 4).
