This ranking is not intended to completely replace the ATP Ranking. In fact, it shows that the ATP system is more reliable than most people think. This week, for instance, the top 16 under each system contains exactly the same players!

SRI Rankings Top 50 Issue #1. 15th March 1995
Rank	Name	Rating Points	ATP Rank
1	Pete Sampras	1121	1
2	Andre Agassi	1107	2
3	Boris Becker	927	3
4	Jim Courier	913	11
5	Sergi Bruguera	903	5
6	Michael Chang	902	4
7	Magnus Larsson	849	16
8	Richard Krajicek	845	10
9	Michael Stich	843	8
10	Stefan Edberg	833	15
11	Goran Ivanisevic	816	6
12	Wayne Ferreira	812	12
13	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	810	9
14	Alberto Berasategui	797	7
15	Todd Martin	795	13
16	Andrei Medvedev	767	14
17	Thomas Enqvist	764	20
18	David Wheaton	746	28
19	Thomas Muster	745	17
20	Jason Stoltenberg	743	24
21	Jared Palmer	720	42
22	Andrea Gaudenzi	711	19
23	Petr Korda	705	32
24	Guy Forget	703	30
25	Mark Woodforde	691	34
26	Alex Corretja	688	23
27	Jonas Bjorkman	683	44
28	Richey Reneberg	680	47
29	Marcos Ondruska	679	99
30	Marc Rosset	675	18
31	MaliVai Washington	675	46
32	Jan Siemerink	673	51
33	Patrick Rafter	661	21
34	Marcelo Filippini	658	60
35	Anders Jarryd	650	92
36	Paul Haarhuis	647	33
37	Javier Frana	647	???
38	Carlos Costa	644	29
39	Slava Dosedel	642	27
40	Francisco Clavet	637	36
41	Jacco Eltingh	637	22
42	Greg Rusedski	634	79
43	Cedric Pioline	626	55
44	Aaron Krickstein	626	35
45	Karel Novacek	624	26
46	Jaime Yzaga	623	40
47	Jan Apell	621	94
48	Lionel Roux	621	48
49	Alexander Volkov	615	38
50	Christian Bergstrom	613	???
54	Bernd Karbacher	600	25

SRI = Spectral Radius at Infinity. For a relevant reference, see "The Perron-Frobenius Theorem and the Ranking of Football Teams" by James P. Keener, SIAM Review, v.35 no.1, p.80 (1993)

I have set an arbitrary lower limit of 20 matches played for appearance on this list. Scaled cut-offs (like a 14 tournament minimum divisor) will be considered in the future, but it probably won't make much of a difference to the top 50.

The SRI Rankings are an index of average performance, not of point-gathering.

Thanks to JD for the data.