THIS WEEK: The two small tournaments this week were in Poland, where Conchita Martinez defended her title, and in Palermo, where WTA #118 (up from #196) Anastasia Myskina won. Myskina had only played 7 matches on the tour in the year before last week, for a SRI Rankings provisional rating of about 420. That rating has now leapt to about 900, but she's a long way from qualifying yet.

Patty Schnyder won in Palermo last year, but didn't play this time. She drops to 20th (WTA #19 steady), her lowest since September 1997.

SRI Rankings Top 50 Issue #W76. 22nd July 1999
Rank	Name	Rating Points	Rank Change	WTA Rank
1	Lindsay Davenport	1768	0	1
2	Steffi Graf	1726	0	3
3	Martina Hingis	1712	0	2
4	Venus Williams	1591	0	4
5	Serena Williams	1493	0	11
6	Monica Seles	1455	0	5
7	Mary Pierce	1290	0	6
8	Jana Novotna	1278	0	7
9	Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario	1163	0	8
10	Anna Kournikova	1142	0	13
11	Sandrine Testud	1130	0	17
12	Barbara Schett	1103	0	12
13	Amelie Mauresmo	1087	0	16
14	Nathalie Tauziat	1079	0	10
15	Chanda Rubin	1079	0	23
16	Conchita Martinez	1071	0	18
17	Dominique van Roost	1046	0	14
18	Julie Halard-Decugis	1025	+1	15
19	Mary Joe Fernandez	1011	+1	33
20	Patty Schnyder	1005	-2	19
21	Elena Likhovtseva	975	0	20
22	Amanda Coetzer	971	0	9
23	Lisa Raymond	956	0	29
24	Jennifer Capriati	945	0	48
25	Jelena Dokic	940	0	39
26	Irina Spirlea	928	0	21
27	Silvia Farina	924	+3	24
28	Amy Frazier	923	-1	28
29	Ruxandra Dragomir	921	-1	26
30	Anke Huber	920	-1	30
31	Silvija Talaja	892	+1	36
32	Natasha Zvereva	878	+1	22
33	Henrieta Nagyova	877	-2	27
34	Karina Habsudova	861	+5	46
35	Ai Sugiyama	860	-1	32
36	Nathalie Dechy	859	-1	25
37	Ines Gorrochategui	841	-1	64
38	Mariaan de Swardt	811	+2	40
39	Gala Leon Garcia	810	-1	44
40	Cara Black	809	-3	45
41	Fabiola Zuluaga	801	0	55
42	Sylvia Plischke	761	+2	31
43	Corina Morariu	753	-1	42
44	Cristina Torrens Valero	752	+9	51
45	Magui Serna	746	0	38
46	Iva Majoli	741	0	71
47	Mirjana Lucic	740	0	50
48	Emmanuelle Gagliardi	735	0	66
49	Maria A. Sanchez Lorenzo	727	+5	49
50	Sandra Nacuk	727	+7	82
51	Brie Rippner	726	-1	60
52	Sarah Pitkowski	721	0	35
53	Annamaria Foldenyi	718	-4	113
56	Barbara Rittner	706	-13	52
58	Elena Dementieva	702	+8	90
60	Sabine Appelmans	700	+5	80
63	Anne Kremer	685	+6	34

Rating Winners:
Karina Habsudova	+54	(RU Sopot 99, QF Warsaw 98)
Cristina Torrens Valero	+39	(QF Sopot 99, 1R Warsaw 98)
Fabiola Zuluaga	+32	(2Q Palermo 98)
Elena Dementieva	+29	(SF Palermo 99)
Anne Kremer	+28	(2Q Warsaw 98)
Sandra Nacuk	+27	(2R+Q Sopot 99, 1Q Warsaw 98)
Sabine Appelmans	+26	(2R Sopot 99, 1R Warsaw 98)

Rating Losers:
Barbara Rittner	-48	(SF Palermo 98, 2R Sopot 99)
Patty Schnyder	-20	(W Palermo 98)
Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario	-17	(2R Sopot 99)

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

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