THIS WEEK: Not all that much noteworthy, although Karim Alami rose from 121 to 79 (ATP #83 -> #46) on the strength of his losing final in Barcelona. The winner, Felix Mantilla, is up from 18 to 15 (ATP #19 -> #17). The defending champion Todd Martin fell two victories short this time, and is down to 10 (ATP #8 -> #11).

In Tokyo, Nicolas Kiefer (up from 30 to 29, ATP #26 -> #23) failed to set the world on fire on his way to the championship.

SRI Rankings Top 50 Issue #M88. 20th April 1999
Rank	Name	Rating Points	Rank Change	ATP Rank
1	Pete Sampras	1166	0	1
2	Andre Agassi	1132	0	10
3	Richard Krajicek	1081	0	4
4	Patrick Rafter	1062	+1	6
5	Marcelo Rios	1046	-1	13
6	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	1026	+1	3
7	Thomas Enqvist	1019	-1	15
8	Carlos Moya	1012	+1	2
9	Greg Rusedski	1011	+1	12
10	Todd Martin	995	-2	11
11	Alex Corretja	987	+1	5
12	Mark Philippoussis	986	-1	8
13	Karol Kucera	979	0	9
14	Albert Costa	959	+1	14
15	Felix Mantilla	950	+3	17
16	Tim Henman	943	-2	7
17	Gustavo Kuerten	937	-1	19
18	Michael Chang	907	-1	40
19	Goran Ivanisevic	906	+2	16
20	Tommy Haas	905	-1	20
21	Thomas Johansson	904	+1	18
22	Younes El Aynaoui	901	+4	36
23	Jason Stoltenberg	900	-3	31
24	Boris Becker	896	0	60
25	Jerome Golmard	885	+2	25
26	Magnus Gustafsson	885	-3	30
27	Magnus Larsson	882	-2	49
28	Francisco Clavet	872	+1	21
29	Nicolas Kiefer	868	+1	23
30	Lleyton Hewitt	850	-2	57
31	Dominik Hrbaty	822	0	32
32	Jonas Bjorkman	817	+4	26
33	Marat Safin	815	-1	28
34	Vince Spadea	809	+4	33
35	Fernando Meligeni	806	+11	51
36	Thomas Muster	805	-1	39
37	Fabrice Santoro	797	+2	35
38	Slava Dosedel	794	-1	66
39	Jan-Michael Gambill	791	-6	47
40	Byron Black	788	-6	38
41	Jim Courier	781	-1	50
42	Scott Draper	781	-1	45
43	Cedric Pioline	780	-1	22
44	Wayne Ferreira	774	+12	24
45	Bohdan Ulihrach	774	0	34
46	Justin Gimelstob	772	-3	63
47	Marc Rosset	763	-3	27
48	Sebastien Grosjean	762	-1	44
49	Jan Siemerink	754	-1	29
50	Ramon Delgado	739	-1	54
52	Sjeng Schalken	734	+14	52
54	Hendrik Dreekmann	727	-4	89
55	Juan Ignacio Chela	724	+17	144
79	Karim Alami	679	+42	46
92	Andrea Gaudenzi	654	-38	115

Rating Winners:
Karim Alami	+96	(RU Barcelona 99, 2R 98)
Gaston Gaudio	+63	(W Nice Ch. 99)
Wayne Ferreira	+44	(RU Tokyo 99, 2R 98)
Felix Mantilla	+39	(W Barcelona 99, 2R 98)
Fernando Meligeni	+35	(QF Barcelona 99, 2R 98)

Rating Losers:
Todd Martin	-33	(W Barcelona 98, SF 99)
Dominik Hrbaty	-23	(QF Barcelona 98)
Tim Henman	-22	(QF Tokyo 98, 3R 99)

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

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