THIS WEEK: Three tournaments: Estoril won by Albert Costa, Chennai won by Byron Black, and Hong Kong won by Andre Agassi (over Boris Becker in the final). With the talent spread around, no-one made too much of a gain on the SRI Rankings Top 50 Men. But one name I noticed was Estoril semi-finalist Jerome Golmard, who has sneaked into the top 30, and is ATP #23! I don't think I know what he looks like ... .

BTW, Andre Agassi demonstrated again this week why he deserves to be in the top two, as opposed to ATP #11. While most sets in the men's game tend to be decided on zero to two service breaks, Agassi destroyed four players on the way to the final: Pozzi 6-2 6-2, Gross 6-2 6-3, Kiefer 6-2 6-2, and Dreekmann 6-3 6-0. If rankings are to measure players who are simply a class above the rest, then they have to take this into account.

SRI Rankings Top 50 Issue #M87. 14th April 1999
Rank	Name	Rating Points	Rank Change	ATP Rank
1	Pete Sampras	1176	0	1
2	Andre Agassi	1138	0	11
3	Richard Krajicek	1088	0	4
4	Marcelo Rios	1065	+1	13
5	Patrick Rafter	1058	-1	6
6	Thomas Enqvist	1031	+1	16
7	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	1029	-1	3
8	Todd Martin	1028	+1	8
9	Carlos Moya	1021	-1	2
10	Greg Rusedski	1010	0	12
11	Mark Philippoussis	1006	0	9
12	Alex Corretja	993	0	5
13	Karol Kucera	976	0	10
14	Tim Henman	965	0	7
15	Albert Costa	936	+2	14
16	Gustavo Kuerten	930	-1	17
17	Michael Chang	924	+2	40
18	Felix Mantilla	911	+5	19
19	Tommy Haas	911	+3	18
20	Jason Stoltenberg	910	-2	33
21	Goran Ivanisevic	910	-5	15
22	Thomas Johansson	909	-2	20
23	Magnus Gustafsson	902	-2	31
24	Boris Becker	898	+2	62
25	Magnus Larsson	879	-1	50
26	Younes El Aynaoui	877	-1	41
27	Jerome Golmard	868	+3	23
28	Lleyton Hewitt	855	-1	58
29	Francisco Clavet	853	0	22
30	Nicolas Kiefer	853	-2	26
31	Dominik Hrbaty	845	0	29
32	Marat Safin	830	+1	25
33	Jan-Michael Gambill	812	+2	44
34	Byron Black	804	+5	24
35	Thomas Muster	804	-3	36
36	Jonas Bjorkman	803	-2	32
37	Slava Dosedel	801	-1	63
38	Vince Spadea	793	+5	39
39	Fabrice Santoro	791	+3	35
40	Jim Courier	790	-2	53
41	Scott Draper	786	-1	48
42	Cedric Pioline	785	-5	21
43	Justin Gimelstob	779	+1	66
44	Marc Rosset	779	-3	27
45	Bohdan Ulihrach	774	0	34
46	Fernando Meligeni	771	+1	61
47	Sebastien Grosjean	767	-1	45
48	Jan Siemerink	754	+2	30
49	Ramon Delgado	750	+2	56
50	Hendrik Dreekmann	748	+13	76
51	Mark Woodforde	745	-2	59
54	Andrea Gaudenzi	732	-6	81
56	Wayne Ferreira	730	0	28
58	Laurence Tieleman	721	+22	80
83	Rainer Schuttler	683	+17	54
89	Alberto Berasategui	666	-27	46

Rating Winners:
Boris Becker	+33	(RU Hong Kong 99, 2R Chennai 98)
Laurence Tieleman	+29	(QF Hong Kong 99)
Hendrik Dreekmann	+26	(SF Hong Kong 99, 1R 98)
Albert Costa	+22	(W Estoril 99, QF 98)
Byron Black	+21	(W Chennai 99, RU Hong Kong 98)
Jerome Golmard	+20	(SF Estoril 99, 2R ret Chennai 98)

Rating Losers:
Alberto Berasategui	-57	(W Estoril 98, 1R 99)
Thomas Muster	-35	(RU Estoril 98, 1R 99)
Andrea Gaudenzi	-27	(2R Estoril 98, 1R Napoli Chal. 99)

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

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