THIS WEEK: Marcelo Rios (up from 8 to 5) wins _another_ clay tournament - who's going to stop this guy? Well, the SRI Rankings computer set to work on the clay court results of the past year, and discovered five players to rank higher than Rios. This is rather surprising, but note that #1 Costa is probably not 100% fit, and the next three have limited results for the computer to rate on clay. Unfortunately, I haven't had the chance to examine the draw, but I believe Costa and Rios are due to meet in the quarter-finals. The winner of that should go through and win the title, but it would not surprise at all to find a hard-court specialist in the final.

SRI Rankings French Open Special. Clay Only. 25th May 1998
Rank Name Rating Points SRI Rank
(all surfaces)		 Comments
1 Albert Costa 1264 4 Possibly carrying an injury
2 Andre Agassi 1223 2 (7 matches only)
3 Todd Martin 1216 15 (9 matches only)
4 Thomas Enqvist 1166 3 (10 matches only)
5 Felix Mantilla 1136 12 Expect five sets v. Sampras
6 Marcelo Rios 1128 5 Surprised he's so low
7 Alex Corretja 1103 13  
8 Pete Sampras 1091 1 Only possible
9 Gustavo Kuerten 1049 27 Back-to-back? Maybe!
10 Alberto Berasategui 1043 22  
11 Carlos Moya 1021 17  
12 Richard Krajicek 992 7  
13 Slava Dosedel 991 28  
14 Thomas Muster 966 29  
15 Petr Korda 966 6 There goes the Grand Slam
16 Patrick Rafter 958 8  
17 Filip Dewulf 953 60  
18 Karol Kucera 935 10  
19 Magnus Gustafsson 931 21  
20 Mark Philippoussis 925 24  
21 Magnus Norman 918 43  
22 Andrei Medvedev 892 31  
23 Francisco Clavet 878 34  
24 Sergi Bruguera 864 62 No way
25 Arnaud Di Pasquale 859 NQ The surprise French hope
26 Michael Chang 849 16  
27 Dominik Hrbaty 843 49  
28 Julian Alonso 834 70  
29 Jim Courier 831 40  
30 Younes El Aynaoui 831 NQ  
 
32 Andrea Gaudenzi 816 46 77 matches on clay!!
38 Yevgeny Kafelnikov 796 14  
40 Tim Henman 794 23  
44 Greg Rusedski 787 9  
45 Cedric Pioline 781 19  
64 Goran Ivanisevic 709 37  
76 Jonas Bjorkman 672 11  


SRI Rankings Top 50 Issue #M55. 25th May 1998
Rank Name Rating Points Rank Change ATP Rank
1 Pete Sampras 1289 0 1
2 Andre Agassi 1150 0 20
3 Thomas Enqvist 1140 0 19
4 Albert Costa 1123 0 13
5 Marcelo Rios 1117 +3 3
6 Petr Korda 1116 -1 2
7 Richard Krajicek 1107 -1 10
8 Patrick Rafter 1082 -1 4
9 Greg Rusedski 1056 0 5
10 Karol Kucera 1008 +2 9
11 Jonas Bjorkman 1007 0 7
12 Felix Mantilla 1005 -2 15
13 Alex Corretja 988 0 14
14 Yevgeny Kafelnikov 986 +1 6
15 Todd Martin 976 -1 33
16 Michael Chang 974 0 11
17 Carlos Moya 964 0 12
18 Magnus Larsson 953 0 40
19 Cedric Pioline 936 0 17
20 Boris Becker 936 0 59
21 Magnus Gustafsson 925 0 28
22 Alberto Berasategui 918 0 16
23 Tim Henman 913 0 18
24 Mark Philippoussis 882 +1 21
25 Tommy Haas 869 +3 43
26 Jason Stoltenberg 868 +3 60
27 Gustavo Kuerten 867 0 8
28 Slava Dosedel 864 -2 41
29 Thomas Muster 864 -5 22
30 Wayne Ferreira 845 0 30
31 Andrei Medvedev 836 +1 68
32 Jeff Tarango 835 -1 48
33 Chris Woodruff 832 0 56
34 Francisco Clavet 827 +1 37
35 Fabrice Santoro 823 -1 27
36 Jan Siemerink 821 0 29
37 Goran Ivanisevic 814 0 26
38 Mark Woodforde 809 +1 50
39 Nicolas Kiefer 808 -1 24
40 Jim Courier 804 0 49
41 Paul Haarhuis 800 +1 82
42 Kenneth Carlsen 797 -1 63
43 Magnus Norman 786 +1 25
44 Byron Black 780 +4 53
45 Richard Fromberg 778 0 44
46 Andrea Gaudenzi 776 +4 35
47 Bohdan Ulihrach 773 -1 54
48 Brett Steven 773 -1 47
49 Dominik Hrbaty 770 -6 45
50 Nicolas Escude 769 -1 32
 
58 Vince Spadea 739 +16 62
62 Sergi Bruguera 731 -1 23

Rating Winners:
Vince Spadea +33 (RU St. Poelten 98, 1R 97)
Marcelo Rios +30 (W St. Poelten 98, 2R 97)

Rating Losers:
Thomas Muster -27 (QF St. Poelten 97, QF 98)
Dominik Hrbaty -23 (SF St. Poelten 97)

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

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