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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