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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... Darren O'Shaughnessy ... http://www.rankingsoftware.com ...