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The Swiss tennis player Roger Federer head a week of the ATP ranking, but with only 350 points ahead of the Spanish Rafael Nadal, the shortest distance they have never separated.

According to the ATP, Federer will appear in the list on Monday with 6,330 points, 5,980 of Nadal. This is the first time that Basel is so close to a persecutor since May 2004 its advantage with the American Andy Roddick fell to the same 350 points.

Nadal has no options to reach Federer in the Indian Wells Masters Series starting on Thursday, because he defends the title, while world number one lost last year to Argentine Guillermo Canas in their first match.

But depending on the outcome of both Indian Wells, number one it could be at stake in Miami, starting on March 26. Federer leads 215 consecutive weeks as the first of the ATP, while Nadal amount already 138 as number two.