THIS WEEK: I'm not one to crow, but I am disappointed that the negative response to last fortnight's Wimbledon predictions caused me to be cautious in my betting. Because it was another bonanza for the SRI Rankings Top 50 Women. I just hope that some of you out there continued to make a profit.

As predicted, Lindsay Davenport took on and beat Steffi Graf in the final, despite never having won a quarter-final there before. Davenport continues to get better, and Wimbledon only comes around once a year ... . But Davenport was only one of several big stories. In an unusualy turbulent women's draw, the quarter-finalists included Mirjana Lucic (re-enters at 46, WTA #134 -> #47), and qualifiers Jelena Dokic (debuts at a scorching 25, WTA #129 -> #37) and Alexandra Stevenson (up from 78 to 54, WTA #86 -> #36). Stevenson's list of kills was the least impressive, featuring Halard and Raymond, while Dokic destroyed Hingis and dealt with Pierce, and Lucic beat Seles and Tauziat in hopefully a return to the world-class form she is capable of.

I can't see Dokic falling much below 25th on this list, now that she has guaranteed entry to probably half-a-dozen Tier I & II events for the rest of the year. It will be fascinating to see how high she can go in six months.

Big losers included defending champion Jana Novotna, who hasn't been as low as 8th before, and the woman she beat in the final, Nathalie Tauziat (down from 11 to 13, WTA #8 -> #10).

SRI Rankings Top 50 Issue #W74. 6th July 1999
Rank	Name	Rating Points	Rank Change	WTA Rank
1	Lindsay Davenport	1768	0	1
2	Steffi Graf	1725	0	3
3	Martina Hingis	1713	0	2
4	Venus Williams	1601	0	4
5	Serena Williams	1492	+1	12
6	Monica Seles	1460	-1	5
7	Mary Pierce	1301	+1	6
8	Jana Novotna	1277	-1	7
9	Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario	1178	0	8
10	Anna Kournikova	1146	0	13
11	Sandrine Testud	1112	+1	16
12	Barbara Schett	1090	+3	11
13	Nathalie Tauziat	1087	-2	10
14	Chanda Rubin	1079	-1	24
15	Conchita Martinez	1062	-1	19
16	Amelie Mauresmo	1059	+1	15
17	Patty Schnyder	1052	+1	18
18	Dominique van Roost	1047	-2	14
19	Julie Halard-Decugis	1030	0	17
20	Mary Joe Fernandez	1007	0	33
21	Amanda Coetzer	984	0	9
22	Elena Likhovtseva	981	+2	20
23	Lisa Raymond	956	+7	30
24	Jennifer Capriati	948	+1	43
25	Jelena Dokic	945	NQ	37
26	Irina Spirlea	933	-3	21
27	Anke Huber	932	-1	31
28	Amy Frazier	924	0	28
29	Silvia Farina	920	-2	23
30	Ruxandra Dragomir	915	-1	27
31	Natasha Zvereva	909	-9	22
32	Henrieta Nagyova	894	-1	26
33	Nathalie Dechy	872	+1	25
34	Ai Sugiyama	866	-2	32
35	Silvija Talaja	861	-2	48
36	Ines Gorrochategui	841	+2	62
37	Gala Leon Garcia	839	-2	40
38	Mariaan de Swardt	818	-1	38
39	Cara Black	811	-3	45
40	Fabiola Zuluaga	774	+3	51
41	Corina Morariu	768	+3	41
42	Iva Majoli	768	-3	72
43	Magui Serna	754	-1	42
44	Sylvia Plischke	750	-3	29
45	Sarah Pitkowski	743	0	35
46	Mirjana Lucic	739	NQ	47
47	Barbara Rittner	739	-1	50
48	Cristina Torrens-Valero	736	+1	54
49	Brie Rippner	730	+5	58
50	Karina Habsudova	728	-3	67
51	Emmanuelle Gagliardi	721	-3	61
52	Tamarine Tanasugarn	711	+4	57
54	Alexandra Stevenson	707	+24	36
59	Annamaria Foldenyi	687	NQ	123
61	Virginia Ruano Pascual	683	-21	60
69	Anne Kremer	648	+20	34

Rating Winners: (All results at Wimbledon)
Alexandra Stevenson	+90	(SF+Q 99)
Anne Kremer	+56	(3R 99, 3Q 98)
Serena Williams	+44	(3R 98)
Lisa Raymond	+43	(4R 99, 1R 98)
Ines Gorrochategui	+39	(3R 99, 1R 98)

Rating Losers:
Virginia Ruano-Pascual	-99	(4R def S Williams 98, 1R 99)
Natasha Zvereva	-88	(SF 98, 2R 99)
Jana Novotna	-80	(W 98, QF 99)
Nathalie Tauziat	-60	(RU 98, QF 99)

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

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