THIS WEEK: The three claycourt tournaments sandwiched between the U.S. Open and a round of Davis Cup attracted reasonably strong fields. In Mallorca, Juan Carlos Ferrero (up from 38 to 33, ATP #68 -> #47) delivered on his talent by defeating Alex Corretja (up from 19 to 13, ATP #11 -> #10) in the final. In Bournemouth, Adrian Voinea was the surprise winner, although he was a semi-finalist in Bucharest at this time last year. He rises only two places to 114 (ATP #133 -> #103). Beaten finalist Stefan Koubek moved back into the top 50, up from 51 to 42 (ATP #48 -> #41).

Tashkent had a strong group of seeds, but first-round casualties included Rusedski, Kucera, Pioline, and Safin, while Kafelnikov and Rosset lost in the second round to make Nicolas Kiefer the only seed in the quarter-finals. Kiefer duly won against George Bastl (up from 147 to 118, ATP #154 -> #114) in the final.

SRI Rankings is moving! More details next week, but apologies for the delays this week.

SRI Rankings Top 50 Issue #M105. 24th Sep 1999
Rank	Name	Rating Points	Rank Change	ATP Rank
1	Andre Agassi	1210	0	1
2	Pete Sampras	1172	0	3
3	Richard Krajicek	1113	0	9
4	Todd Martin	1066	0	4
5	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	1038	+1	2
6	Greg Rusedski	1035	-1	6
7	Lleyton Hewitt	1032	0	31
8	Gustavo Kuerten	1027	+1	5
9	Patrick Rafter	1022	-1	13
10	Tim Henman	1001	0	7
11	Mark Philippoussis	980	0	21
12	Karol Kucera	969	0	20
13	Alex Corretja	963	+6	10
14	Marcelo Rios	961	-1	8
15	Nicolas Kiefer	959	0	12
16	Jerome Golmard	954	-2	29
17	Magnus Norman	951	+1	23
18	Younes El Aynaoui	949	-1	25
19	Vince Spadea	932	+1	19
20	Thomas Enqvist	919	+1	17
21	Tommy Haas	917	+1	11
22	Felix Mantilla	914	-6	18
23	Nicolas Lapentti	907	+1	14
24	Albert Costa	905	-1	26
25	Carlos Moya	884	0	15
26	Fernando Meligeni	883	0	27
27	Cedric Pioline	878	+2	16
28	Dominik Hrbaty	869	+2	22
29	Jiri Novak	866	-1	35
30	Sebastien Grosjean	864	+2	30
31	Francisco Clavet	861	-4	32
32	Jason Stoltenberg	852	-1	56
33	Juan Carlos Ferrero	828	+5	47
34	Marc Rosset	810	-1	33
35	Magnus Larsson	803	-1	122
36	Chris Woodruff	798	-1	68
37	Michael Chang	791	0	63
38	Jim Courier	790	-2	37
39	Thomas Johansson	789	+1	24
40	Wayne Ferreira	785	+2	38
41	Daniel Nestor	784	0	61
42	Stefan Koubek	778	+9	41
43	Fabrice Santoro	778	+6	39
44	Jan-Michael Gambill	771	-1	55
45	Boris Becker	768	+2	110
46	Marat Safin	763	-2	36
47	Andrei Pavel	763	-2	49
48	Slava Dosedel	762	-2	65
49	Michel Kratochvil	758	-1	131
50	Arnaud Clement	758	0	44
51	Nicklas Kulti	755	-12	104
52	Sargis Sargsian	750	+7	62
53	Sjeng Schalken	739	+8	43
61	Goran Ivanisevic	727	+10	45
64	Mariano Zabaleta	715	+2	28

Rating Winners:
Juan Carlos Ferrero	+41	(W Mallorca 99)
Alex Corretja	+27	(RU Mallorca 99)
Stefan Koubek	+25	(RU Bournemouth 99, QF 98)

Rating Losers:
Felix Mantilla	-35	(W Bournemouth 98, 1R 99)
Nicklas Kulti	-32	(1R Bournemouth 99)
Francisco Clavet	-18	(W Bucharest 98, QF Mallorca 99)

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

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