THIS WEEK: Some of you wrote her off. We wrote her off here. It was going to be a long time before Martina Hingis was top of the tree again. Well, it took just ten weeks for Hingis to recover from dropping to third, and reclaim the top spot on the SRI Rankings Top 50 Women. She did it by erasing last year's 6-4, 6-3 final loss to Venus Williams, and replacing it with a tight win over Davenport. The runner-up is still within reach, after gaining 40 points to Martina's 65.

The rest of Hingis's results at Zurich will show why she is clearly back in form. Last year she was taken to a tiebreak by Panova, a 7-5 set by Morariu, and three sets by Tauziat, before getting steamrolled by Venus. This year, she lost just 5 games to Dokic, 4 to the promising Myskina (up from 58 to 52, WTA #55), and only 5 to Capriati in the semi. She's back.

Did You Know? The most popular initials on the WTA Tour over the past 5 1/2 years are "M.M." Twenty-two women with those initials have played on the tour in that time; next best is "A.S." with 15. On the men's tour (and Challengers), A.M. leads with 19, with M.M. on 17. Those women: Marnie Mahler, Magdalena Maleeva, Melanie Marois, Marta Marrero, Magdalena Marszalek, Marion Maruska, Monica Massarella, Maja Matevzic, Melissa Mazzotta, Meredith McGrath, Marlene Mejia, Mariana Mesa, Melissa Middleton, Magda Mihalache, Megan Miller, Maja Mise, Misumi Miyauchi, Marcela Monroy, Magdalena Mroz, Maren Mueller, Marina Muller, and Maja Muric.

SRI Rankings Top 50 Issue #W107. 17th Oct 2000
Rank	Name	Rating Points	Rank Change	WTA Rank
1	Martina Hingis	1820	+1	1
2	Venus Williams	1812	-1	3
3	Lindsay Davenport	1773	0	2
4	Serena Williams	1501	0	8
5	Monica Seles	1434	0	5
6	Mary Pierce	1334	0	4
7	Amelie Mauresmo	1327	0	15
8	Amanda Coetzer	1149	0	12
9	Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario	1137	0	9
10	Nathalie Tauziat	1117	0	7
11	Conchita Martinez	1116	0	6
12	Anna Kournikova	1099	0	13
13	Jennifer Capriati	1096	0	16
14	Sandrine Testud	1085	0	11
15	Elena Dementieva	1061	+1	19
16	Justine Henin	1059	-1	39
17	Chanda Rubin	1059	+1	14
18	Kim Clijsters	1043	-1	26
19	Amy Frazier	1020	+2	20
20	Anke Huber	1005	-1	10
21	Jelena Dokic	985	-1	31
22	Nadejda Petrova	972	0	49
23	Nathalie Dechy	972	0	23
24	Lisa Raymond	959	0	21
25	Dominique van Roost	940	0	17
26	Julie Halard-Decugis	924	+1	18
27	Magdalena Maleeva	921	-1	27
28	Barbara Schett	916	+1	25
29	Patty Schnyder	895	-1	24
30	Paola Suarez	865	0	42
31	Rossana de Los Rios	853	+2	82
32	Gala Leon Garcia	846	-1	34
33	Anne Kremer	846	-1	35
34	Tamarine Tanasugarn	836	+4	37
35	Anne-Gaelle Sidot	830	-1	28
36	Silvija Talaja	823	0	22
37	Kvetoslava Hrdlickova	818	+3	36
38	Daja Bedanova	814	-3	60
39	Cara Black	810	+2	40
40	Ruxandra Dragomir	808	-1	41
41	Corina Morariu	797	-4	48
42	Denisa Chladkova	787	+1	53
43	Elena Likhovtseva	787	+1	29
44	Irina Spirlea	786	+1	106
45	Rita Kuti Kis	786	+1	58
46	Sabine Appelmans	784	-4	50
47	Ai Sugiyama	775	+1	32
48	Fabiola Zuluaga	765	+1	52
49	Kristina Brandi	760	-2	30
50	Jana Kandarr	752	+4	68
52	Anastasia Myskina	750	+6	55
54	Tathiana Garbin	741	-4	38
59	Lina Krasnoroutskaya	714	+1	113
95	Andrea Glass	581	+27	144

Rating Winners:
Martina Hingis	+69	(W Zurich 00, RU 99)
Amy Frazier	+45	(RU Japan 00)
Anastasia Myskina	+44	(QF+Q Zurich 00)
Chanda Rubin	+41	(QF Zurich 00, 2R 99)
Lindsay Davenport	+40	(RU Zurich 00)

Rating Losers:
Daja Bedanova	-13	(1R Japan 00)
Corina Morariu	-9	(QF+Q Zurich 99, 2R Japan 00)
Patty Schnyder	-6	(2R Zurich 99, 1R 00)
Gala Leon Garcia	-5	(1R Zurich 00)

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

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