THIS WEEK: Swiss Roger Federer seems to have crept up through the SRI Rankings Top 50 Men in the past month. After his second consecutive Vienna semi-final appearance, he rises from 27 to 20 (ATP #31 -> #32). Federer was rated 41st by SRI in June, and has been hovering around SRI 34 / ATP #40 since then. The Olympic semi-final took him into the top 30 by both computers, and now he is 20th.

Tommy Haas was ranked below Federer last week, but outstrips him to be the mover of the week, up from 31 to 19 (ATP #28 -> #20). Tim Henman beat Federer in the semi-final and Haas in the final, but falls one point short of grabbing 8th place (ATP #10 steady).

Japan Open champion Sjeng Schalken is the only player to enter the SRI Top 50 this week, up from 55 to 43 (ATP #51 -> #34).

Did You Know? There are 6 players with the surname Martin currently in the rankings, and another 5 called Martinez. They are the two most popular surnames (Navarro & Gonzalez also have 5 each). 17 players have the first name Martin, but there are no Martin Martinezes.

SRI Rankings Top 50 Issue #M132. 17th Oct 2000
Rank	Name	Rating Points	Rank Change	ATP Rank
1	Pete Sampras	1205	0	1
2	Lleyton Hewitt	1192	0	8
3	Andre Agassi	1183	+1	5
4	Gustavo Kuerten	1166	-1	3
5	Magnus Norman	1152	+2	4
6	Alex Corretja	1150	-1	9
7	Thomas Enqvist	1148	-1	6
8	Richard Krajicek	1093	0	21
9	Tim Henman	1092	0	10
10	Marat Safin	1035	0	2
11	Cedric Pioline	1020	+1	14
12	Nicolas Kiefer	992	-1	16
13	Patrick Rafter	989	+1	17
14	Todd Martin	980	+2	41
15	Sebastien Grosjean	978	+2	31
16	Jan-Michael Gambill	975	-3	29
17	Juan Carlos Ferrero	974	-2	11
18	Carlos Moya	964	0	44
19	Tommy Haas	956	+12	20
20	Roger Federer	945	+7	32
21	Byron Black	938	-1	27
22	Arnaud Clement	927	+2	26
23	Albert Costa	923	-2	28
24	Mark Philippoussis	920	-1	13
25	Mariano Puerta	917	+1	18
26	Andreas Vinciguerra	914	+4	50
27	Marcelo Rios	914	-8	33
28	Nicolas Lapentti	910	+6	15
29	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	907	-4	7
30	Karol Kucera	902	-1	78
31	Michael Chang	901	-3	23
32	Wayne Ferreira	901	0	19
33	Andrei Pavel	898	0	25
34	Dominik Hrbaty	884	+5	24
35	Gaston Gaudio	880	+1	30
36	Fabrice Santoro	872	-1	36
37	Slava Dosedel	871	+6	64
38	Francisco Clavet	865	+2	46
39	Nicolas Escude	864	-2	40
40	Greg Rusedski	863	-18	67
41	Magnus Larsson	862	-3	71
42	Franco Squillari	856	-1	12
43	Sjeng Schalken	847	+12	34
44	Agustin Calleri	838	+1	63
45	Max Mirnyi	836	-1	42
46	Marc Rosset	834	-4	35
47	Magnus Gustafsson	822	-1	53
48	Jiri Novak	811	+1	45
49	Jason Stoltenberg	809	-2	69
50	Younes El Aynaoui	806	0	22
51	Mikael Tillstrom	806	-3	76
66	Albert Portas	732	+13	51

Rating Winners:
Sjeng Schalken	+58	(W Tokyo 00, 1R Singapore 99)
Tommy Haas	+50	(RU Vienna 00)
Roger Federer	+30	(SF Vienna 00, SF 99)
Tim Henman	+28	(W Vienna 00, 1R 99)
Slava Dosedel	+26	(2R def Enqvist ret Vienna 00)
Dominik Hrbaty	+23	(SF Tokyo 00, 1R Vienna 99)

Rating Losers:
Greg Rusedski	-65	(W Vienna 99, 2R 00)
Marcelo Rios	-49	(W Singapore 99)
Nicolas Kiefer	-29	(RU Vienna 99)
Alex Corretja	-22	(1R thrashed Vienna 00)
Jan-Michael Gambill	-22	(QF Singapore 99, 1R Vienna 00)

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

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