THIS WEEK: It's a quiet week on the tour, with three tournaments headed by the $600,000 Swiss Open at Gstaad, and the anachronism on grass at Newport, against the first of the Davis Cup semi-finals. Magnus Norman won his home tournament in Bastad, but it's not enough to pass Pete Sampras. Alex Corretja was the next highest-ranked player in action, and he accordingly won in Switzerland to put a gap between 6th and Enqvist's 7th.

Dutchman Peter Wessels won in Newport, to move from 75 to 61 (ATP #133 -> #91). The computer notes two players to watch in the lower events: Olivier Rochus (up from 67 to 55, ATP #130 -> #114) stormed through the Ostend Challenger without even being taken to a tiebreak. Argentian Guillermo Coria didn't do anything special this week, but he is newly qualified at 64 (ATP #193).

SRI Rankings Top 50 Issue #M121. 18th July 2000
Rank	Name	Rating Points	Rank Change	ATP Rank
1	Andre Agassi	1256	0	1
2	Pete Sampras	1226	0	3
3	Magnus Norman	1201	0	2
4	Gustavo Kuerten	1187	0	4
5	Lleyton Hewitt	1164	0	9
6	Alex Corretja	1110	0	7
7	Thomas Enqvist	1058	0	6
8	Patrick Rafter	1034	0	14
9	Cedric Pioline	1027	0	8
10	Greg Rusedski	1021	0	26
11	Tim Henman	1004	+1	17
12	Richard Krajicek	999	+1	25
13	Tommy Haas	994	+2	22
14	Nicolas Kiefer	993	-3	12
15	Juan Carlos Ferrero	992	-1	13
16	Karol Kucera	982	+2	50
17	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	976	0	5
18	Albert Costa	968	-2	16
19	Todd Martin	946	0	29
20	Marcelo Rios	939	+2	23
21	Nicolas Lapentti	938	-1	11
22	Sebastien Grosjean	936	+1	27
23	Mark Philippoussis	936	-2	18
24	Nicolas Escude	932	0	19
25	Jan-Michael Gambill	921	0	37
26	Slava Dosedel	901	+1	58
27	Marat Safin	899	+2	10
28	Jason Stoltenberg	887	0	71
29	Michael Chang	887	+2	24
30	Wayne Ferreira	887	+3	30
31	Andreas Vinciguerra	884	-5	42
32	Roger Federer	883	+2	39
33	Mariano Puerta	880	+5	21
34	Carlos Moya	878	-2	54
35	Younes El Aynaoui	869	-5	15
36	Byron Black	863	-1	33
37	Karim Alami	858	-1	34
38	Marc Rosset	844	-1	28
39	Gaston Gaudio	841	+11	41
40	Jiri Novak	840	+5	44
41	Francisco Clavet	837	+3	47
42	Magnus Larsson	837	-2	51
43	Sjeng Schalken	835	-1	52
44	Hicham Arazi	829	-1	36
45	Chris Woodruff	828	-6	65
46	Jerome Golmard	822	-5	62
47	Fabrice Santoro	819	-1	32
48	Andrei Pavel	816	-1	38
49	Magnus Gustafsson	816	0	63
50	Mikael Tillstrom	812	+2	64
51	Agustin Calleri	812	-3	84
54	Franco Squillari	790	+3	20
55	Olivier Rochus	782	+12	114
61	Peter Wessels	760	+14	91
64	Guillermo Coria	750	NQ	193
87	Wayne Arthurs	683	+30	125

Rating Winners:
Alex Corretja	+40	(W Gstaad 00, 1R ret 99)
Olivier Rochus	+40	(W Ostend Chal. 00, 2R 99)
Peter Wessels	+38	(W Newport 00, QF 99)
Gaston Gaudio	+34	(SF Gstaad 00)
Mariano Puerta	+30	(RU Gstaad 00, 1R 99)
Magnus Norman	+16	(W Bastad 00, QF 99)

Rating Losers:
Andreas Vinciguerra	-30	(RU Bastad 99, RU 00)
Younes El Aynaoui	-28	(SF Gstaad 99, 1R 00)
Chris Woodruff	-20	(W Newport 99, 2R 00)
Nicolas Kiefer	-18	(2R Gstaad 00)
Albert Costa	-18	(W Gstaad 99, SF 00)

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

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