THIS WEEK: No results from Colombia on Michael Blue's web site yet, but I see the tournament was won by Fabiola Zuluaga, who had a provisional SRI rating of about 480. Can't have been that much competition ...

In Hannover meanwhile, Jana Novotna defeated Venus Williams in the final, both consolidating their positions. The only players of note to move both fell: defending champion Patty Schnyder out of the top 10 (WTA #12), and Sabine Appelmans to a new low of 49 (WTA #76!).

SRI Rankings Top 50 Issue #W60. 26th Feb 1999
Rank	Name	Rating Points	Rank Change	WTA Rank
1	Martina Hingis	1696	0	1
2	Lindsay Davenport	1690	0	2
3	Steffi Graf	1559	0	7
4	Venus Williams	1497	0	5
5	Monica Seles	1477	0	4
6	Jana Novotna	1419	0	3
7	Mary Pierce	1386	0	8
8	Serena Williams	1309	0	24
9	Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario	1252	0	6
10	Anna Kournikova	1160	+1	13
11	Patty Schnyder	1155	-1	12
12	Conchita Martinez	1145	0	16
13	Nathalie Tauziat	1072	0	9
14	Sandrine Testud	1062	0	14
15	Dominique van Roost	1045	0	11
16	Amanda Coetzer	1044	0	10
17	Irina Spirlea	1032	0	15
18	Mary Joe Fernandez	1017	0	48
19	Natasha Zvereva	1007	0	17
20	Barbara Schett	989	0	19
21	Julie Halard-Decugis	972	+1	21
22	Elena Likhovtseva	949	+1	22
23	Lisa Raymond	916	+1	27
24	Anke Huber	914	-3	29
25	Amy Frazier	883	+1	32
26	Chanda Rubin	881	+1	28
27	Magui Serna	877	-2	23
28	Amelie Mauresmo	877	0	18
29	Mirjana Lucic	877	0	51
30	Silvia Farina	865	0	20
31	Ai Sugiyama	850	+1	25
32	Virginia Ruano Pascual	825	+1	31
33	Henrieta Nagyova	824	-2	26
34	Iva Majoli	814	0	30
35	Anne Miller	792	+1	65
36	Barbara Paulus	773	+2	67
37	Ruxandra Dragomir	771	+2	38
38	Cara Black	761	-1	40
39	Elena Tatarkova	752	+1	46
40	Barbara Rittner	746	+6	49
41	Joannette Kruger	736	0	37
42	Magdalena Grzybowska	735	+3	71
43	Nathalie Dechy	726	+1	43
44	Silvija Talaja	725	-2	83
45	Anna Smashnova	718	+2	44
46	Sarah Pitkowski	713	-3	35
47	Mariaan de Swardt	691	+1	33
48	Maria A. Sanchez Lorenzo	680	+2	41
49	Sabine Appelmans	677	-14	76
50	Sylvia Plischke	676	+1	45
51	Jennifer Capriati	675	-2	86
52	Tara Snyder	667	0	36
53	Corina Morariu	662	+2	34
62	Anne-Gaelle Sidot	643	+7	53
67	Alexandra Fusai	622	-5	39

Rating Winners:
Anne-Gaelle Sidot	+35	(2R+Q Hannover 99, 1R 98)
Elena Likhovtseva	+30	(SF Hannover 99, 1R 98)
Barbara Rittner	+29	(QF+Q Hannover 99, 1R 98)
Steffi Graf	+27	(SF Hannover 99, QF 98)

Rating Losers:
Sabine Appelmans	-113	(SF def Graf Hannover 98, 1R 99)
Anke Huber	-69	(QF Hannover 98, 2R 99)
Patty Schnyder	-60	(W Hannover 98, 2R 99)
Henrieta Nagyova	-28	(1R ret 99)

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

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