THIS WEEK: The top of the SRI Rankings Top 50 Women used to be so stable! Davenport held it for the last four months of 1998 (from October 13th on the WTA computer), before Hingis stole it back for a week in January. Davenport had it for the Australian Open, but this week Hingis returns to the #1 position on both computers simultaneously with a win in Tokyo. Such an agreement is rare indeed!

Davenport's conqueror was runner-up Amanda Coetzer, whose achievement shoots her back up from 22 to 16 (WTA #15 -> #13).

SRI Rankings Top 50 Issue #W58. 9th Feb 1999
Rank	Name	Rating Points	Rank Change	WTA Rank
1	Martina Hingis	1713	+1	1
2	Lindsay Davenport	1709	-1	2
3	Steffi Graf	1546	0	7
4	Venus Williams	1514	0	6
5	Monica Seles	1495	0	4
6	Jana Novotna	1416	0	3
7	Mary Pierce	1410	0	8
8	Serena Williams	1321	0	24
9	Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario	1271	0	5
10	Patty Schnyder	1224	0	9
11	Anna Kournikova	1165	0	12
12	Conchita Martinez	1152	0	16
13	Nathalie Tauziat	1110	0	10
14	Dominique van Roost	1081	0	11
15	Sandrine Testud	1075	0	15
16	Amanda Coetzer	1057	+6	13
17	Irina Spirlea	1034	-1	14
18	Mary Joe Fernandez	1027	0	48
19	Natasha Zvereva	1019	-2	17
20	Barbara Schett	996	-1	19
21	Anke Huber	986	-1	27
22	Julie Halard-Decugis	983	-1	20
23	Elena Likhovtseva	927	0	23
24	Lisa Raymond	913	0	25
25	Magui Serna	896	0	22
26	Amy Frazier	890	+2	33
27	Chanda Rubin	886	0	28
28	Amelie Mauresmo	885	-2	18
29	Mirjana Lucic	881	+2	51
30	Silvia Farina	858	0	21
31	Ai Sugiyama	854	-2	26
32	Virginia Ruano Pascual	833	+1	32
33	Henrieta Nagyova	826	+1	30
34	Iva Majoli	805	-2	29
35	Sabine Appelmans	795	0	45
36	Anne Miller	791	0	65
37	Ruxandra Dragomir	770	+2	42
38	Cara Black	768	0	39
39	Barbara Paulus	762	-2	54
40	Elena Tatarkova	755	0	47
41	Joannette Kruger	742	0	37
42	Sarah Pitkowski	734	0	31
43	Silvija Talaja	729	0	83
44	Nathalie Dechy	724	+1	44
45	Barbara Rittner	722	-1	71
46	Magdalena Grzybowska	721	+1	72
47	Anna Smashnova	707	+1	41
48	Maria A. Sanchez Lorenzo	706	+4	40
49	Mariaan de Swardt	699	-3	35
50	Jennifer Capriati	692	+1	87
51	Sylvia Plischke	683	-1	43
53	Tamarine Tanasugarn	665	+9	56
54	Corina Morariu	664	+1	34
56	Maria Alejandra Vento	658	-7	66

Rating Winners:
Amanda Coetzer	+70	(RU def Davenport Tokyo 99, SF 98)
Martina Hingis	+39	(W Tokyo 99, RU 98)
Mirjana Lucic	+37	(1R Tokyo 98)

Rating Losers:
Maria Alejandra Vento	-46	(2R Tokyo 98, 2Q 99)
Iva Majoli	-33	(SF Tokyo 98, 1R 99)
Lindsay Davenport	-26	(W Tokyo 98, QF 99)

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

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