THIS WEEK: Pete Sampras's injury in Indianapolis meant that Andre Agassi only had to beat Kafelnikov handsomely in the final at Washington to take top place. He did so, and now leads by the slender margin of 3 points. Agassi was last ranked first in February, when he was only ATP #7. Sampras had been on top since Marcelo Rios's brief stint in early March.

ATP #12 Richard Krajicek took advantage of Rafter's withdrawal through injury, to grab 3rd place. Indianapolis winner (and beneficiary of Sampras's retirement) Vince Spadea moves up from 25 to enter the top 20 at 19 (ATP #34 -> #23). Last year it was qualifier Leander Paes who upset Sampras in New Haven on the way to the quarter-finals. Paes now plummets from 109 to 180 (ATP #128 -> #178).

U.S. Open preview issue next week, with the famous hardcourt rankings. The SRI computer has done extremely well with the predictions for this event over the past two years.

SRI Rankings Top 50 Issue #M102. 24th Aug 1999
Rank	Name	Rating Points	Rank Change	ATP Rank
1	Andre Agassi	1160	+1	2
2	Pete Sampras	1157	-1	1
3	Richard Krajicek	1067	+1	12
4	Patrick Rafter	1063	-1	4
5	Todd Martin	1023	0	7
6	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	1020	0	3
7	Greg Rusedski	1012	0	9
8	Lleyton Hewitt	987	+2	31
9	Gustavo Kuerten	984	0	5
10	Tim Henman	980	-2	6
11	Mark Philippoussis	970	0	11
12	Karol Kucera	960	0	19
13	Marcelo Rios	959	0	10
14	Felix Mantilla	946	+1	17
15	Nicolas Kiefer	937	+2	15
16	Younes El Aynaoui	935	0	25
17	Jerome Golmard	920	+2	30
18	Alex Corretja	908	-4	13
19	Vince Spadea	908	+6	23
20	Thomas Enqvist	903	-2	20
21	Albert Costa	902	-1	21
22	Carlos Moya	891	+1	8
23	Tommy Haas	891	-2	14
24	Fernando Meligeni	882	-2	29
25	Francisco Clavet	876	-1	28
26	Nicolas Lapentti	868	+4	16
27	Magnus Norman	862	-1	34
28	Dominik Hrbaty	842	-1	22
29	Cedric Pioline	836	+2	24
30	Sebastien Grosjean	834	+9	27
31	Michael Chang	829	-2	50
32	Jiri Novak	815	0	39
33	Thomas Johansson	814	-5	18
34	Magnus Larsson	805	0	82
35	Jim Courier	798	0	36
36	Marc Rosset	793	0	32
37	Juan Carlos Ferrero	784	+1	63
38	Stefan Koubek	781	+5	44
39	Jason Stoltenberg	781	-6	66
40	Daniel Nestor	776	+8	58
41	Jan-Michael Gambill	771	0	54
42	Wayne Ferreira	769	-2	37
43	Chris Woodruff	768	-6	72
44	Jonas Bjorkman	764	+1	41
45	Andrei Pavel	764	-3	46
46	Fabrice Santoro	755	+8	38
47	Gaston Gaudio	746	+4	64
48	Boris Becker	745	-2	111
49	Thomas Muster	738	0	95
50	Marat Safin	737	0	33
NQ	Nicklas Kulti	823	NQ	104
52	Jan Siemerink	735	+17	45
54	Byron Black	729	-7	67
59	Paul Goldstein	712	+15	79
61	Goran Ivanisevic	708	-17	42
64	Mariano Zabaleta	703	-1	26
67	Hicham Arazi	701	-15	43
75	Michal Tabara	676	+31	144
180	Leander Paes	509	-71	178

Rating Winners:
Michal Tabara	+64	(W Prague Chal. 99, 1R Graz Chal. 98)
Vince Spadea	+50	(RU def Sampras ret Indi. 99, 1R 98)
Sebastien Grosjean	+47	(SF Indianapolis 99, 1R 98)
Jan Siemerink	+43	(SF Indianapolis 99, 3R 98)
Nicolas Lapentti	+37	(W Indianapolis 99, 1R New Haven 98)

Rating Losers:
Alex Corretja	-57	(W Indianapolis 98, 3R Washington 99)
Goran Ivanisevic	-52	(RU New Haven 98, 1R Indianapolis 99)
Hicham Arazi	-32	(QF Indianapolis 98)
Jason Stoltenberg	-29	(3R Indianapolis 98, 1R 99)
Pete Sampras	-25	(3R New Haven 98, QF ret Indi. 99)

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

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