If only for a while, Cowan, the Wimbledon wild-card entrant who drives a Ford Fiesta and owns a ranking of 265, found the courage to cope with where he was and who he was playing.
When Facebook in 2014 crunched its own data for a ranking of major cities where users went from "single" to "in a relationship," it found San Francisco had the lowest rate of new couples, with San Jose not far behind.
However, the domestique would need to be competitive in his or her own right, and achieve a ranking within the world's top 150 in order to compete.
Owning a home ranks slightly ahead of retirement accounts like 401 k)s and far ahead of the stock market.
His rival, Plankton, is a small green copepod who owns a low-rank fast-food restaurant called the Chum Bucket, located across the street from the Krusty Krab.
Li Fan of the World and China Institute, a private consultancy in Beijing, says that the experiment with village elections has "died" and the party's talk of expanding democracy within its own ranks, a big agenda item for an annual meeting of its central committee in September, is "empty words".
In matters of sleaze and waste, the parliament is commonly said to possess within its own ranks a concentration of practical expertise rivalling any on earth.
From his first weeks in office, Spitzer picked fights he could not win, like trying to force the Legislature to select from outside its own ranks a replacement state comptroller.
On the other hand, Reese added, at least the bishops are facing criticism from within their own ranks — a benefit of the more free-wheeling style that Francis has brought to the papacy.
First comes the return against New Zealand, a team whose own Test ranking position above only Bangladesh (so, effectively, bottom) belies the ability they showed back in March when they came within a single wicket of inflicting a series defeat on England.
