THIS WEEK: We're in the home stretch! Pete Sampras will be #1 at the end of the year on both the ATP and SRI computers, as he was last year. It's hard to see him getting beaten in the ATP Tour Championship in Hannover this week, too. Below you'll find the SRI Ranking of each of the eight players in the field, counting matches only against each other this year. As the championship is being played on a hardcourt this year, you'll also find their ratings with the hardcourt matches doubled in value.

SRI Rankings Hannover Special. Top Eight Players Only. 11th Nov 1997
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Rank  Name                  Rating  Win-Loss HardCt  ATP  SRI
                            Points   Record  Rating  Rank Rank
 1 Pete Sampras               747    12 - 2    750     1    1
 2 Jonas Bjorkman             539     4 - 5    537     4    7
 3 Carlos Moya                545     5 - 2    525     7   21
 4 Sergi Bruguera             545     4 - 2    523     8   13
 5 Greg Rusedski              410     4 - 6    448     5    5
 6 Yevgeny Kafelnikov         435     3 - 4    441     6   17
 7 Patrick Rafter             422     5 - 12   440     3    6
 8 Michael Chang              356     2 - 6    335     2    4

Sampras is so far ahead of the others it's hard to see him being beaten more than once. Even once seems unlikely. It's amazing to note that he has won 12 matches this year against the top 8, while no-one else has won more than 5. Patrick Rafter, on the other hand, has lost to each and every one of them at least once in 1997. Chang's record is very poor, beating only Rafter (twice).

The computer calculates these odds for winning the championship:

ODDS	Player(s)
4/5	Sampras
6/1	Bjorkman
7/1	Bruguera
9/1	Rusedski, Rafter
10/1	Chang
12/1	Kafelnikov, Moya

A quick wrap-up of this week's results before I forget. The three biggest movers upwards within the SRI Rankings Top 50 this week are Santiago winner Julian Alonso, Stockholm winner Jonas Bjorkman, and Moscow winner Yevgeny Kafelnikov. Surprisingly, Albert Costa finds himself at 2! (ATP #19). Though his recent form has been bad to non-existant, he finished last year even worse. Those results have been cleared from his record now, and on average he's been (barely) the second-best player over the last 12 months. It will need something special from one of the players below him to take that away.

Next week is the year-end SRI Rankings special. Stay tuned.

SRI Rankings Top 50 Issue #M37. 11th Nov 1997
Rank	Name	Rating Points	Rank Change	ATP Rank
1	Pete Sampras	1372	0	1
2	Albert Costa	1112	+2	19
3	Richard Krajicek	1106	-1	11
4	Michael Chang	1098	-1	2
5	Greg Rusedski	1081	0	5
6	Patrick Rafter	1077	0	3
7	Jonas Bjorkman	1047	+3	4
8	Jim Courier	1024	0	21
9	Alex Corretja	1021	0	12
10	Thomas Enqvist	998	-3	28
11	Petr Korda	997	+3	13
12	Magnus Larsson	993	+3	25
13	Sergi Bruguera	991	-1	8
14	Thomas Muster	989	-1	9
15	Goran Ivanisevic	988	-4	15
16	Felix Mantilla	969	0	16
17	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	966	+3	6
18	Boris Becker	963	0	63
19	Marcelo Rios	942	0	10
20	Todd Martin	927	-3	61
21	Carlos Moya	916	0	7
22	Tim Henman	912	0	17
23	Chris Woodruff	890	0	30
24	Mark Philippoussis	884	0	18
25	Andrei Medvedev	881	0	27
26	Cedric Pioline	875	0	20
27	Karol Kucera	871	+3	23
28	Jason Stoltenberg	867	-1	79
29	Jiri Novak	864	+5	48
30	Magnus Gustafsson	860	+1	37
31	Gustavo Kuerten	858	+1	14
32	Bohdan Ulihrach	857	-3	34
33	Slava Dosedel	853	0	45
34	Tommy Haas	850	-6	42
35	Magnus Norman	834	0	22
36	Francisco Clavet	834	0	33
37	Todd Woodbridge	831	+1	26
38	Paul Haarhuis	823	+1	71
39	Alberto Berasategui	822	-2	24
40	Fabrice Santoro	812	+1	29
41	Julian Alonso	810	+5	36
42	Mark Woodforde	802	0	46
43	Byron Black	789	0	76
44	Dominik Hrbaty	785	0	40
45	Thomas Johansson	782	-5	39
46	Michael Stich	776	-1	65
47	Marcelo Filippini	769	+1	44
48	Johan van Herck	767	-1	67
49	Jeff Tarango	766	+1	49
50	Brett Steven	755	+1	51
52	Hernan Gumy	737	-3	88
57	Jan Siemerink	720	+25	78
72	Wayne Black	687	+33	76

Rating Winners:
Jan Siemerink	+55	(RU Stockholm 97, 2R 96)
Julian Alonso	+32	(W Santiago 97)
Jonas Bjorkman	+31	(W Stockholm 97, 1R 96)
Yevgeny Kafelnikov	+23	(W Moscow 97, RU 96)

Rating Losers:
Thomas Enqvist	-35	(W Stockholm 96, 2R 97)
Todd Martin	-32	(RU Stockholm 96)
Thomas Johansson	-27	(SF Stockholm 96, 2R 97)
Hernan Gumy	-23	(W Santiago 96, 2R 97)
Goran Ivanisevic	-21	(W Moscow 96)

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

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