THIS WEEK: I've written an article for the Australian Financial Review (1st July), but I've left the text at work. Can't even find it on the AFR website. I'll add it to this edition (on www.rankingsoftware.com/tennis/rst000630.htm ) when I find it.

The odds apply to post-Round 2.

ODDS	Player(s)
7/4	Sampras
5/2	Agassi
11/2	Rafter
10/1	Enqvist
14/1	Kuerten
16/1	Henman
40/1	B. Black
50/1	Ferreira, Philippoussis
66/1	Haas, El Aynaoui
100	Gambill, Pozzi
150	Golmard, Gustafsson, Pavel, Bjorkman
200	Schalken, Prinosil

SRI Rankings Wimbledon Special. Double Grass, No Clay. 30th June 2000
Rank	Name	Rating Points	SRI Rank (all surfaces)	Comments
1	Pete Sampras	1327	2	Six titles in 7 years
2	Andre Agassi	1318	1
3	Patrick Rafter	1233	6
4	Lleyton Hewitt	1228	5
5	Greg Rusedski	1133	10
6	Alex Corretja	1109	7
7	Nicolas Escude	1092	22
8	Gustavo Kuerten	1075	3
9	Tim Henman	1073	11
10	Thomas Enqvist	1067	8
11	Marcelo Rios	1062	21
12	Magnus Norman	1057	4
13	Richard Krajicek	1042	12
14	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	1040	16
15	Nicolas Kiefer	1033	13
16	Cedric Pioline	1003	9
17	Todd Martin	996	19
18	Andreas Vinciguerra	993	25
19	Mark Philippoussis	980	24
20	Sebastien Grosjean	976	23
21	Roger Federer	972	34
22	Karol Kucera	960	15
23	Tommy Haas	932	18
24	Chris Woodruff	915	38
25	Jerome Golmard	904	40
26	Byron Black	895	44
27	Goran Ivanisevic	892	53
28	Michael Chang	889	31
29	Wayne Ferreira	886	36
30	Nicolas Lapentti	859	20
32	Juan Carlos Ferrero	853	14
61	Albert Costa	759	17	This is surprising

SRI Rankings Top 50 Issue #M119. 30th June 2000
Rank	Name	Rating Points	Rank Change	ATP Rank
1	Andre Agassi	1281	0	1
2	Pete Sampras	1252	0	3
3	Gustavo Kuerten	1190	0	4
4	Magnus Norman	1184	0	2
5	Lleyton Hewitt	1175	0	7
6	Patrick Rafter	1087	+4	21
7	Alex Corretja	1073	0	11
8	Thomas Enqvist	1071	0	8
9	Cedric Pioline	1055	-3	6
10	Greg Rusedski	1050	-1	22
11	Tim Henman	1029	0	14
12	Richard Krajicek	1022	0	27
13	Nicolas Kiefer	1000	+1	12
14	Juan Carlos Ferrero	997	+2	13
15	Karol Kucera	987	-2	44
16	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	986	-1	5
17	Albert Costa	978	0	15
18	Tommy Haas	968	+1	23
19	Todd Martin	966	-1	20
20	Nicolas Lapentti	945	+1	10
21	Marcelo Rios	943	-1	25
22	Nicolas Escude	933	0	17
23	Sebastien Grosjean	930	+3	28
24	Mark Philippoussis	929	-1	18
25	Andreas Vinciguerra	926	-1	39
26	Marat Safin	906	-1	9
27	Slava Dosedel	900	+2	50
28	Younes El Aynaoui	897	0	16
29	Carlos Moya	897	-2	51
30	Jason Stoltenberg	886	+2	82
31	Michael Chang	879	0	24
32	Jan-Michael Gambill	870	+1	56
33	Karim Alami	869	+2	29
34	Roger Federer	868	-4	35
35	Mariano Puerta	852	-1	26
36	Wayne Ferreira	850	+5	37
37	Magnus Larsson	845	0	48
38	Chris Woodruff	844	+1	46
39	Sjeng Schalken	842	-1	53
40	Jerome Golmard	840	+4	70
41	Jiri Novak	836	-1	45
42	Marc Rosset	832	0	33
43	Hicham Arazi	830	0	38
44	Byron Black	827	+8	52
45	Francisco Clavet	826	+1	42
46	Gaston Gaudio	821	+3	41
47	Andrei Pavel	819	-11	34
48	Jim Courier	807	-1	71
49	Mariano Zabaleta	802	-1	40
50	Fabrice Santoro	800	0	30
51	Arnaud Di Pasquale	800	+5	49
52	Arnaud Clement	798	-7	58
56	Franco Squillari	782	-1	19
61	Richard Fromberg	749	+10	66
72	Jonas Bjorkman	722	+23	78

Rating Winners:
Byron Black	+38	(RU Nottingham 00, 1R 99)
Patrick Rafter	+30	(W 's-Hertogenbosch 00, W 99)
Sebastien Grosjean	+29	(W Nottingham 00, 2R 99)

Rating Losers:
Cedric Pioline	-31	(W Nottingham 99, 1R 00)
Andrei Pavel	-27	(RU 's-Hertogenbosch 99, 2R 00)
Karol Kucera	-25	(SF 's-Hertogenbosch 99)

[ wo - walkover, wd - withdrew, ret - retired, def - defeated ]

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