Top 25 Rankings: April 10, 2014

Grand Prix Phoenix took place last weekend, and ten of the Magic Top 25 were in action. The highest finisher was Eric Froehlich, who made it all the way to the Top 8. It's no small achievement to have GP Top 8s into double figures, and Froehlich has proved himself time and again to be among the world's very best. With his progress halted in the quarterfinals, he moves up in the rankings to tie for No. 19, pushing down Chris Fennell, Martin Juza, and Raphaël Lévy in the process.

Further down the standings in Phoenix, Alexander Hayne sneaked into the Top 32, while Shahar Shenhar and Paul Rietzl also finished in the 30s. Tom Martell, meanwhile, finished in the tedious 65th spot, just one place shy of a Pro Point. Also missing out on points were reigning Player of the Year Josh Utter-Leyton, Ben Stark, Owen Turtenwald, Martin Juza, and Shuhei Nakamura.

Froehlich has long been an integral part of the original ChannelFireball team, and it's worth noting that, as we look at our current Top 10, fully eight of them are on either Team CFB or the newly minted CFB Pantheon team. Stark, Shenhar, Nakamura, and Utter-Leyton are part of the original crew, while Duke, Turtenwald, Black, and Martell hail from the Pantheon. Only Yuuya Watanabe and current No. 1 Jérémy Dezani in the Top 10 are not part of the two giant teams. Even the one new entry to the Top 25—David Ochoa—comes from the CFB stable, knocking out Matej Zatlkaj for the time being.

With Dezani likely to remain in Europe, the coming weekend will see another chance in North America for potential Player of the Year candidates to close the gap, this time at the Limited Grand Prix in Philadelphia. Join us next week to see the latest shakeup in the Magic Top 25 Pro Rankings.

Rank	Name	Points	Change		Previous
1	Jeremy Dezani	69.97			1
2	Reid Duke	59.42			2
3	Owen Turtenwald	58.39			3
4	Ben Stark	55.74			4
5	Samuel Black	53.03			5
6	Shahar Shenhar	51.68			6
7	Tom Martell	51.29			7
8	Yuuya Watanabe	50.77			8
9	Shuhei Nakamura	48.93			9
10	Josh Utter-Leyton	47.87			10
11	Alexander Hayne	46.52			11
12	Stanislav Cifka	45.68			12
13	Jacob Wilson	45.52		+1	14
14	Willy Edel	45.42		-1	13
15	Shi Tian Lee	44.35			15
16	Josh Mcclain	43.84			16
17	Makihito Mihara	43.39			17
18	Paul Rietzl	41.77			18
19	Shaun Mclaren	40.77			19
19	Eric Froehlich	40.77		+4	23
21	Chris Fennell	38.74		-1	20
22	Martin Juza	38.42		-1	21
23	Raphael Levy	38.29		-1	22
24	David Ochoa	37.42		—	NR
25	Kentaro Yamamoto	37.29			25
25	William Jensen	37.29			25

Dropped from rankings: Matej Zatlkaj