THIS WEEK: The top 15 women stay as they were last week, apart from one swap: Lindsay Davenport moves up from 5 to 3 (WTA #5 -> #3) and Monica Seles moves down from 3 to 5 (WTA #4 -> #5). Davenport achieved her highest ever ranking by defeating Nathalie Tauziat in the final of the Ameritech Cup, the lone tournament this week. Tauziat streaks up from 25 to 16 (WTA #17 -> #14).

Of course, the woman who made all the news was Williams The Younger (Serena), by beating both Seles and Pierce. Interestingly, her provisional SRI rating is about 80 points higher than her sister's. It will be fascinating to see how these two go over the next few years.

Next week's issue of the SRI Rankings Top 50 Women will be a special preview of the Chase Championships, pitting the top 16 women against each other.

SRI Rankings Top 50 Issue #W33. 12th Nov 1997
Rank Name Rating Points Rank Change ATP Rank
1 Martina Hingis 1771 0 1
2 Jana Novotna 1475 0 2
3 Lindsay Davenport 1462 +2 3
4 Steffi Graf 1445 0 15
5 Monica Seles 1445 -2 5
6 Mary Pierce 1235 0 7
7 Mary Joe Fernandez 1189 0 11
8 Amanda Coetzer 1185 0 4
9 Conchita Martinez 1154 0 10
10 Iva Majoli 1103 0 6
11 Anke Huber 1102 0 12
12 Mirjana Lucic 1089 0 51
13 Sandrine Testud 1050 0 13
14 Irina Spirlea 1036 0 8
15 Arantxa Sanchez Vicario 1022 0 9
16 Nathalie Tauziat 1004 +9 14
17 Venus Williams 993 0 25
18 Patty Schnyder 990 0 29
19 Yayuk Basuki 983 0 20
20 Brenda Schultz-McCarthy 972 -4 16
21 Lisa Raymond 960 0 17
22 Barbara Paulus 955 -2 22
23 Sabine Appelmans 954 -1 18
24 Anna Kournikova 927 -1 31
25 Chanda Rubin 923 +1 28
26 Dominique van Roost 922 +1 21
27 Miriam Oremans 922 -3 48
28 Kimberly Po 906 0 24
29 Ruxandra Dragomir 869 0 19
30 Natasha Zvereva 864 +1 26
31 Elena Likhovtseva 837 -1 32
32 Naoko Sawamatsu 833 0 34
33 Judith Wiesner 807 +2 ??
34 Amy Frazier 804 -1 36
35 Barbara Schett 782 +1 38
36 Jennifer Capriati 780 -2 66
37 Henrieta Nagyova 771 0 39
38 Joannette Kruger 761 +1 30
39 Ai Sugiyama 756 -1 23
40 Sandra Kleinova 746 0 45
41 Virginia Ruano-Pascual 740 0 54
42 Karina Habsudova 734 +4 27
43 Maria Alejandra Vento 731 0 53
44 Elena Makarova 727 -2 89
45 Rita Grande 721 0 46
46 Anne-Gaelle Sidot 720 -2 33
47 Magdalena Maleeva 707 +1 35
48 Maria A. Sanchez Lorenzo 696 -1 52
49 Patricia Hy-Boulais 681 +2 62
50 Tamarine Tanasugarn 674 -1 40
 
52 Florencia Labat 659 -2 37
54 Alexia Dechaume-Balleret 652 +8 64

Rating Winners:
Nathalie Tauziat +84 (RU Chicago 97, 1R Oakland 96)
Lindsay Davenport +30 (W Chicago 97, QF Oakland 96)

Rating Losers:
Brenda Schultz-McCarthy -33 (SF Oakland 96, 2R Chicago 97)
Elena Likhovtseva -33 (QF Oakland 96, 1R Chicago 97)
Jennifer Capriati -28 (1R Chicago 97)
Iva Majoli -27 (SF Chicago 97)
Monica Seles -24 (RU Oakland 96, QF Chicago 97)
Mary Pierce -23 (2R Chicago 97)
Jana Novotna -22 (QF Chicago 97)

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


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