THIS WEEK: I'd have to say that this year's SRI Rankings Wimbledon preview issue was one of the most successful yet. Pete Sampras' draw indeed held no threats, and while Andre Agassi impressed with his play in the other half of the draw, keeping Sampras' odds tasty, we knew that Pete is a grass machine. Awesome to watch. But then, the seeding committee did quite well to place 7 of its top 11 in the quarter-finals.

The greatest shock was our no. 2 tip Richard Krajicek losing to the mediocre qualifier Lorenzo Manta (up from 215 to 161, ATP #196 -> #112). There weren't too many others, which meant that the top players stayed in roughly the same places. ATP #10 Todd Martin has moved into the top 5, while Cedric Pioline (up from 44 to 35, ATP #52 -> #23) was the biggest mover overall. Demonstrating the weakness of Sampras' section of the draw, Daniel Nestor met him in the fourth round as predicted, enough to place Nestor in the SRI Rankings Top 50 Men for the first time.

At the top, Sampras leads Agassi by only 13 points, but Rafter looks a little too far behind even if he takes the ATP #1 position in a few weeks.

SRI Rankings Top 50 Issue #M96. 6th July 1999
Rank	Name	Rating Points	Rank Change	ATP Rank
1	Pete Sampras	1149	0	3
2	Andre Agassi	1136	0	1
3	Patrick Rafter	1097	0	2
4	Richard Krajicek	1051	0	7
5	Todd Martin	1023	+2	10
6	Greg Rusedski	1022	-1	12
7	Gustavo Kuerten	1000	-1	5
8	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	990	0	4
9	Karol Kucera	990	0	14
10	Alex Corretja	978	+2	8
11	Tim Henman	977	-1	6
12	Mark Philippoussis	966	-1	13
13	Marcelo Rios	964	0	9
14	Thomas Enqvist	945	0	19
15	Felix Mantilla	919	+2	15
16	Lleyton Hewitt	912	+3	31
17	Nicolas Kiefer	908	-1	17
18	Carlos Moya	907	+2	11
19	Francisco Clavet	906	-4	21
20	Younes El Aynaoui	903	-2	33
21	Jerome Golmard	903	0	22
22	Dominik Hrbaty	887	+2	18
23	Fernando Meligeni	882	-1	27
24	Tommy Haas	861	+1	16
25	Thomas Johansson	857	-2	20
26	Vince Spadea	850	+2	29
27	Magnus Larsson	846	-1	65
28	Jason Stoltenberg	838	-1	55
29	Magnus Gustafsson	821	+2	62
30	Michael Chang	820	+2	63
31	Albert Costa	820	-1	28
32	Boris Becker	815	+3	54
33	Goran Ivanisevic	797	-4	24
34	Jonas Bjorkman	789	0	37
35	Cedric Pioline	788	+9	23
36	Sebastien Grosjean	786	-3	34
37	Marat Safin	784	-1	36
38	Jan-Michael Gambill	774	+4	47
39	Jim Courier	773	+1	41
40	Wayne Ferreira	768	-3	32
41	Jiri Novak	763	-3	58
42	David Prinosil	756	+3	57
43	Marc Rosset	755	+3	35
44	Juan Carlos Ferrero	754	-1	96
45	Nicolas Lapentti	749	-4	26
46	Andrei Medvedev	743	-7	30
47	Stefan Koubek	736	+1	60
48	Thomas Muster	734	+4	84
49	Fabrice Santoro	732	+1	42
50	Daniel Nestor	731	+16	68
52	Andrei Pavel	729	+12	43
57	Byron Black	721	-10	53
59	Paul Haarhuis	715	+21	78
69	Jan Siemerink	688	-20	49
70	Mariano Zabaleta	688	-2	25
78	Jacobo Diaz	670	+29	104

Rating Winners: (All results at Wimbledon)
Cedric Pioline	+33	(QF 99, 1R 98)
Daniel Nestor	+33	(4R 99, 1R 98)
Boris Becker	+32	(4R 99)
Andre Agassi	+30	(RU 99, 2R 98)

Rating Losers:
Jan Siemerink	-56	(QF 98, 1R 99)
Goran Ivanisevic	-36	(RU 98, 4R 99)
Magnus Larsson	-27	(4R 98, 1R 99)
Byron Black	-26	(3R 98, 1R 99)
Jason Stoltenberg	-25	(4R 98, 1R 99)
Andrei Medvedev	-25	(2R 98, 2R 99)
Richard Krajicek	-22	(SF 98, 3R 99)

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

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