THIS WEEK: The Grand Slam Cup was held in Munich, with the winner Greg Rusedski moving into the top 5 (ATP #8). Last year it was Marcelo Rios who took home the $2 million - he drops from 14 to 18 (ATP #7). It's hard to believe that only 7 months ago the SRI Rankings computer placed him at number one.

Two other tournaments were held in the same week: in Toulouse, wild card Nicolas Escude (up from 107 to 70, ATP #80 -> #53) was the champion, while in Bucharest Alberto Martin (up from 60 to 54, ATP #62 -> #45) defeated Karim Alami (up from 62 to 52, ATP #60 -> #43) in the final. So why isn't Martin on the winners' list? Well, this time last year (in results which have just expired) he won a challenger in Seville and made the semi-finals at Oporto, while last week he was thrashed in the second round of the Szczecin challenger by eventual winner Andreas Vinciguerra. Vinciguerra leaps from 146 to 80 (ATP #131).

SRI Rankings Top 50 Issue #M106. 4th Oct 1999
Rank	Name	Rating Points	Rank Change	ATP Rank
1	Andre Agassi	1200	0	1
2	Pete Sampras	1176	0	3
3	Richard Krajicek	1112	0	9
4	Todd Martin	1067	0	4
5	Greg Rusedski	1047	+1	8
6	Lleyton Hewitt	1042	+1	31
7	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	1037	-2	2
8	Patrick Rafter	1034	+1	13
9	Gustavo Kuerten	1023	-1	5
10	Tim Henman	1006	0	6
11	Mark Philippoussis	999	0	21
12	Karol Kucera	977	0	20
13	Nicolas Kiefer	972	+2	12
14	Jerome Golmard	965	+2	29
15	Alex Corretja	959	-2	10
16	Magnus Norman	955	+1	23
17	Tommy Haas	953	+4	11
18	Marcelo Rios	942	-4	7
19	Thomas Enqvist	931	+1	16
20	Younes El Aynaoui	922	-2	28
21	Vince Spadea	920	-2	19
22	Felix Mantilla	919	0	18
23	Nicolas Lapentti	906	0	14
24	Cedric Pioline	901	+3	15
25	Albert Costa	895	-1	25
26	Fernando Meligeni	889	0	26
27	Carlos Moya	882	-2	17
28	Jiri Novak	881	+1	35
29	Francisco Clavet	873	+2	33
30	Sebastien Grosjean	867	0	30
31	Dominik Hrbaty	865	-3	22
32	Jason Stoltenberg	853	0	60
33	Magnus Larsson	826	+2	123
34	Juan Carlos Ferrero	807	-1	47
35	Marc Rosset	806	-1	32
36	Jim Courier	793	+2	37
37	Chris Woodruff	792	-1	68
38	Wayne Ferreira	791	+2	39
39	Michael Chang	789	-2	65
40	Fabrice Santoro	787	+3	38
41	Thomas Johansson	786	-2	24
42	Daniel Nestor	785	-1	73
43	Boris Becker	779	+2	110
44	Jan-Michael Gambill	775	0	59
45	Nicklas Kulti	773	+6	104
46	Slava Dosedel	772	+2	67
47	Marat Safin	770	-1	36
48	Stefan Koubek	770	-6	42
49	Arnaud Clement	768	+1	49
50	Andrei Pavel	766	-3	52
52	Karim Alami	754	+10	43
61	Michel Kratochvil	728	-12	136
63	Andrei Medvedev	727	+15	34
67	Mariano Zabaleta	717	-3	27
70	Nicolas Escude	714	+37	53
80	Andreas Vinciguerra	695	+66	131

Rating Winners:
Andreas Vinciguerra	+122	(W Szczecin Chal. 99)
Nicolas Escude	+83	(W Toulouse 99, 1R Grand Slam Cup 98)
Andrei Medvedev	+37	(SF Grand Slam Cup 99, 2R Toulouse 98)
Tommy Haas	+36	(RU Grand Slam Cup 99, QF Mallorca 98)
Karim Alami	+34	(RU Bucharest 99)

Rating Losers:
Michel Kratochvil	-30	(1R Szczecin Chal. 99)
Younes El Aynaoui	-27	(QF Bucharest 99)
Juan Carlos Ferrero	-21	(2R Bucharest 99)
Marcelo Rios	-19	(W Grand Slam Cup 98)

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

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