THIS WEEK: The top four seeds made the quarter-finals at Cincinnati, which means that the rankings were quite stable. Pete Sampras stretched his lead to 40 ahead of 2nd, 101 ahead of 3rd. The injured Lleyton Hewitt made a surprise jump into the SRI Rankings top 10. Let's hope he can come back and continue that sort of form.

The winner in San Marino was mover of the week Galo Blanco, up from 91 to 71, ATP #91 -> #68). Defending champion Dominik Hrbaty retired hurt in the first round, and dropped a place to 27 (ATP #20 -> #22). Just noticed that Goran Ivanisevic is sitting at a lowest ever 44th (ATP #29).

SRI Rankings Top 50 Issue #M101. 17th Aug 1999
Rank	Name	Rating Points	Rank Change	ATP Rank
1	Pete Sampras	1182	0	1
2	Andre Agassi	1142	0	3
3	Patrick Rafter	1081	0	4
4	Richard Krajicek	1059	+1	13
5	Todd Martin	1032	-1	7
6	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	1031	+1	2
7	Greg Rusedski	1019	-1	9
8	Tim Henman	991	+2	5
9	Gustavo Kuerten	985	-1	6
10	Lleyton Hewitt	982	+3	30
11	Mark Philippoussis	982	0	12
12	Karol Kucera	981	-3	14
13	Marcelo Rios	968	+1	11
14	Alex Corretja	965	-2	8
15	Felix Mantilla	950	+2	17
16	Younes El Aynaoui	937	-1	24
17	Nicolas Kiefer	936	-1	16
18	Thomas Enqvist	917	0	19
19	Jerome Golmard	904	0	28
20	Albert Costa	898	+4	21
21	Tommy Haas	897	-1	15
22	Fernando Meligeni	894	0	27
23	Carlos Moya	893	0	10
24	Francisco Clavet	891	-3	26
25	Vince Spadea	858	0	34
26	Magnus Norman	847	+3	35
27	Dominik Hrbaty	842	-1	22
28	Thomas Johansson	834	0	18
29	Michael Chang	832	+7	48
30	Nicolas Lapentti	831	+1	20
31	Cedric Pioline	830	+1	23
32	Jiri Novak	823	+1	40
33	Jason Stoltenberg	810	-3	59
34	Magnus Larsson	808	-7	92
35	Jim Courier	803	0	38
36	Marc Rosset	795	+4	31
37	Chris Woodruff	790	+11	73
38	Juan Carlos Ferrero	787	-4	63
39	Sebastien Grosjean	787	0	32
40	Wayne Ferreira	782	-3	36
41	Jan-Michael Gambill	779	-3	53
42	Andrei Pavel	770	+1	46
43	Stefan Koubek	767	-1	44
44	Goran Ivanisevic	760	-3	29
45	Jonas Bjorkman	759	-1	42
46	Boris Becker	755	-1	110
47	Byron Black	752	+4	56
48	Daniel Nestor	752	-2	62
49	Thomas Muster	748	-2	94
50	Marat Safin	746	0	33
NQ	Nicklas Kulti	875	NQ	102
51	Gaston Gaudio	741	+9	66
52	Hicham Arazi	733	-3	39
53	Rainer Schuttler	724	+17	45
63	Mariano Zabaleta	705	-2	25
71	Galo Blanco	689	+20	68

Rating Winners:
Galo Blanco	+56	(W San Marino 99, 2R 98)
Chris Woodruff	+45	(3R def Enqvist Cincinnati 99)
Rainer Schuttler	+43	(3R Cincinnati 99)
Gaston Gaudio	+35	(2R San Marino 99)
Lleyton Hewitt	+30	(2R Binghamton Chal. 98)
Michael Chang	+30	(QF San Marino 99, 2R 98)

Rating Losers:
Magnus Larsson	-46	(SF Cincinnati 98, 2R 99)
Vince Spadea	-24	(QF Cincinnati 98, 1R 99)
Dominik Hrbaty	-20	(W San Marino 98, 1R ret 99)
Goran Ivanisevic	-20	(3R Cincinnati 98, 1R 99)

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

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