THIS WEEK: After six months in the wilderness, the SRI Rankings Top 50 Women is back! Just in time for Wimbledon, we get to find out which of the Williams sisters is ranked higher (Venus, by a very small margin), and whether anyone can catch Hingis (Davenport is within 150 points, where she wasn't within 250 in December!).

Who do we have to thank? Mr. Michael Blue, and his website at http://pages.prodigy.com/mblue/tenindex.htm. No time for a Wimbledon preview, as I don't have surface information for some tournaments at this stage.

Anyway, the Top 50 shows the changes since the start of the year, while the movers lists are taken over just the past week.

SRI Rankings Top 50 Issue #W36. 22nd June 1998
Rank	Name	Rating Points	Rank Change	WTA Rank
1	Martina Hingis	1770	0	1
2	Lindsay Davenport	1628	0	2
3	Jana Novotna	1515	0	3
4	Monica Seles	1466	0	5
5	Arantxa Sanchez Vicario	1395	+6	4
6	Venus Williams	1359	+12	6
7	Serena Williams	1341	NQ	22
8	Mary Pierce	1302	-2	10
9	Anna Kournikova	1274	+14	11
10	Conchita Martinez	1212	-1	7
11	Patty Schnyder	1186	+6	12
12	Anke Huber	1182	-2	16
13	Irina Spirlea	1132	0	9
14	Amanda Coetzer	1071	-6	8
15	Dominique van Roost	1053	+11	14
16	Sandrine Testud	1042	-1	13
17	Lisa Raymond	1025	+7	19
18	Nathalie Tauziat	1007	-2	15
19	Mirjana Lucic	997	-5	45
20	Mary Joe Fernandez	989	-13	41
21	Natasha Zvereva	982	+8	20
22	Julie Halard-Decugis	946	NQ	57
23	Elena Likhovtseva	945	+10	27
24	Iva Majoli	921	-12	18
25	Ai Sugiyama	904	+12	17
26	Henrieta Nagyova	899	+9	23
27	Magui Serna	887	+30	30
28	Sabine Appelmans	882	-9	26
29	Barbara Schett	879	+7	31
30	Kimberly Po	873	-2	61
31	Barbara Paulus	873	-11	29
32	Magdalena Grzybowska	830	+18	35
33	Amy Frazier	824	+1	53
34	Joannette Kruger	811	+4	21
35	Maria Alejandra Vento	810	+11	33
36	Fang Li	799	NQ	37
37	Sylvia Plischke	776	NQ	65
38	Amelie Mauresmo	771	+52	36
39	Yayuk Basuki	759	-18	24
40	Naoko Sawamatsu	754	-9	34
41	Virginia Ruano-Pascual	753	0	46
42	Anne Miller	751	+41	43
43	Ruxandra Dragomir	745	-11	28
44	Silvia Farina	736	+14	25
45	Rita Grande	722	0	39
46	Alexandra Fusai	720	+34	40
47	Sarah Pitkowski	718	+20	47
48	Magdalena Maleeva	713	-1	42
49	Nathalie Dechy	707	+6	63
50	Mariaan de Swardt	702	NQ	73
NQ	Steffi Graf	1213	(5)	91
67	Brenda Schultz-McCarthy	630	-45	32

Rating Winners:
Julie Halard-Decugis	+95	(W Rosmalen 98)
Kimberly Po	+93	(SF Rosmalen 98, 2R Eastbourne 97)
Mariaan de Swardt	+60	(2R Eastbourne 98)

Rating Losers:
Miriam Oremans	-99	(RU Rosmalen 97, RU 98)
Brenda Schultz-McCarthy	-71	(SF Eastbourne 97)
Ruxandra Dragomir	-64	(W Rosmalen 97, 1R 98)

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

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