THIS WEEK: Lindsay Davenport easily won a crucial final against Martina Hingis in Sydney, which propelled her back to the top of the SRI Rankings Top 50 Women. Her margin is nearly 60 points, only slightly less than the separation between Hingis and the pair of Graf and Venus Williams. Those two are in with a real chance of overtaking Hingis if they play well in Melbourne.

Note that the calculated odds below do not take into account the hardcourt surface. The odds will not have varied much after the first round, given the unlikelihood of any of these players being troubled by their early opponents.

ODDS	Player(s)
2/1	Davenport
5/2	Hingis
5/1	V.Williams, Graf
14/1	Novotna, Seles
25/1	Pierce
80/1	Schnyder, S.Williams
100	Martinez, Sanchez-Vicario
200	Kournikova
500	van Roost
1000	others

SRI Rankings Top 50 Issue #W56. 20th Jan 1999
Rank	Name	Rating Points	Rank Change	WTA Rank
1	Lindsay Davenport	1741	+1	1
2	Martina Hingis	1684	-1	2
3	Steffi Graf	1621	0	8
4	Venus Williams	1611	0	6
5	Monica Seles	1516	0	4
6	Jana Novotna	1451	0	3
7	Mary Pierce	1414	0	7
8	Serena Williams	1330	+1	26
9	Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario	1296	-1	5
10	Patty Schnyder	1249	0	9
11	Conchita Martinez	1224	+1	10
12	Anna Kournikova	1210	-1	13
13	Nathalie Tauziat	1128	0	11
14	Dominique van Roost	1092	0	12
15	Sandrine Testud	1074	+1	15
16	Irina Spirlea	1057	-1	14
17	Anke Huber	1042	0	18
18	Amanda Coetzer	1026	0	16
19	Julie Halard-Decugis	1008	+1	19
20	Natasha Zvereva	1007	-1	17
21	Barbara Schett	990	+1	20
22	Lisa Raymond	935	-1	27
23	Magui Serna	925	0	22
24	Elena Likhovtseva	908	+1	25
25	Amy Frazier	888	+2	37
26	Chanda Rubin	873	+4	30
27	Mirjana Lucic	871	-3	49
28	Ai Sugiyama	867	-2	23
29	Silvia Farina	858	0	21
30	Iva Majoli	850	-2	24
31	Virginia Ruano Pascual	833	0	32
32	Amelie Mauresmo	821	+1	29
33	Henrieta Nagyova	813	-1	28
34	Sabine Appelmans	796	0	46
35	Anne Miller	781	0	54
36	Ruxandra Dragomir	768	+3	38
37	Elena Tatarkova	765	0	45
38	Barbara Paulus	741	+2	56
39	Barbara Rittner	739	+3	66
40	Mariaan de Swardt	734	+1	36
41	Sarah Pitkowski	733	+4	35
42	Joannette Kruger	731	-4	31
43	Magdalena Grzybowska	731	-7	61
44	Nathalie Dechy	723	+2	43
45	Cara Black	723	+6	42
46	Yayuk Basuki	711	+10	55
47	Maria Alejandra Vento	709	-3	58
48	Tamarine Tanasugarn	708	0	40
49	Jennifer Capriati	708	+5	93
50	Karina Habsudova	695	+13	63
NQ	Mary Joe Fernandez	988	NQ	68
51	Sylvia Plischke	691	-4	47
52	Silvija Talaja	686	-2	82
56	Fang Li	665	-13	41
57	Corina Morariu	664	-5	33
59	Tara Snyder	656	0	34

Rating Winners:
Karina Habsudova	+66	(2R+Q Sydney 99, 1R 98)
Barbara Schett	+46	(SF Sydney 99, QF 98)
Yayuk Basuki	+37	(1R Sydney 98)
Lindsay Davenport	+36	(W Sydney 99, QF 98)

Rating Losers:
Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario	-85	(W Sydney 98, QF 99)
Fang Li	-51	(QF+Q Hobart 98, 2R 99)
Magdalena Grzybowska	-49	(SF Sydney 98)
Mirjana Lucic	-37	(1R+Q Sydney 98, 1R 99)

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

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