THIS WEEK: Pete Sampras is back to the top of the tree after making the quarter-finals at Toronto, while Andre Agassi crashed out in the first round after a semi-final appearance in 1999. Andre's reign lasted 11 months.

Agassi's conqueror this week was Jerome Golmard, who was ranked as high as third at the start of the year (but nowhere near that on the ATP computer). He moves back up from 48 to 42 (ATP #61 -> #46).

The SRI Rankings computer must have some Cold War components - it's certainly taken a stand against the Russians. ATP #5 Yevgeny Kafelnikov is ranked 19th, while Canadian Open winner Marat Safin is up from 27 to 18, but #9 -> #6 by the ATP.

We did have one query about Greg Rusedski during the week. Rusedski is in the SRI top 10, but only ATP #28. We've had a look into his results, and admit that we are stumped. His record in the past 12 months is a reasonable 32-17, but he has just one win over a player in the SRI Top 10 (Gustavo Kuerten, Grand Slam Cup). Before the U.S. Open, we'll introduce a win-loss column so that subscribers can check out some of the basis for the ratings here.

SRI Rankings Top 50 Issue #M124. 8th Aug 2000
Rank	Name	Rating Points	Rank Change	ATP Rank
1	Pete Sampras	1248	+1	2
2	Andre Agassi	1239	-1	1
3	Gustavo Kuerten	1207	0	4
4	Lleyton Hewitt	1182	0	9
5	Magnus Norman	1171	0	3
6	Alex Corretja	1152	0	7
7	Thomas Enqvist	1075	0	8
8	Cedric Pioline	1048	+1	10
9	Patrick Rafter	1047	-1	13
10	Greg Rusedski	1036	0	28
11	Tim Henman	1033	0	16
12	Richard Krajicek	1023	+2	24
13	Juan Carlos Ferrero	1014	0	12
14	Nicolas Kiefer	990	+1	14
15	Karol Kucera	985	-3	44
16	Marcelo Rios	984	0	20
17	Sebastien Grosjean	980	+2	26
18	Marat Safin	970	+9	6
19	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	961	-2	5
20	Nicolas Escude	961	-2	17
21	Jan-Michael Gambill	957	-1	30
22	Tommy Haas	950	-1	32
23	Michael Chang	949	0	22
24	Todd Martin	941	-2	34
25	Albert Costa	937	0	25
26	Nicolas Lapentti	929	-2	11
27	Wayne Ferreira	925	+3	23
28	Mark Philippoussis	914	-2	18
29	Andreas Vinciguerra	910	-1	40
30	Mariano Puerta	898	-1	19
31	Roger Federer	895	+1	39
32	Slava Dosedel	893	-1	55
33	Carlos Moya	880	+1	58
34	Magnus Gustafsson	879	+1	48
35	Byron Black	875	-2	33
36	Francisco Clavet	874	+1	43
37	Jiri Novak	863	+17	38
38	Gaston Gaudio	862	-2	27
39	Karim Alami	860	-1	31
40	Jason Stoltenberg	859	0	68
41	Magnus Larsson	854	+1	54
42	Jerome Golmard	843	+6	46
43	Marc Rosset	843	-2	29
44	Fabrice Santoro	841	+2	37
45	Dominik Hrbaty	841	+2	36
46	Sjeng Schalken	839	-3	52
47	Arnaud Clement	832	+6	50
48	Agustin Calleri	827	+1	80
49	Mikael Tillstrom	827	+3	63
50	Chris Woodruff	825	-5	65
51	Younes El Aynaoui	819	-12	21
53	Franco Squillari	812	-3	15
54	Hicham Arazi	811	-10	41
55	Jonas Bjorkman	781	+7	57
69	Sergi Bruguera	736	+28	112
117	Harel Levy	623	+30	72

Rating Winners:
Sergi Bruguera	+58	(W Segovia Chal. 00)
Jiri Novak	+56	(SF Canadian 00, 3R 99)
Marat Safin	+55	(W Canadian 00)
Wayne Ferreira	+34	(SF Canadian 00, 3R 99)
Richard Krajicek	+33	(3R Canadian 00, 2R 99)
Sebastien Grosjean	+32	(3R Canadian 00, 2R 99)

Rating Losers:
Younes El Aynaoui	-36	(W Amsterdam 99)
Hicham Arazi	-25	(QF Amsterdam 99, 1R Canadian 00)
Karol Kucera	-23	(2R Canadian 00)

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

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