THIS WEEK: Two tournaments, in Rome and Warsaw, went onto the computer, while last year's Italian Open fell off. There wasn't too much movement at the top, with VW strengthening her place in the top 4 with another tournament win, while SW dropped a place to 6th (WTA #10 -> #11).

The interesting things happened near the bottom of the SRI Rankings Top 50 Women, where we now have _six_ women from outside the WTA top 100! Debuting this week are Argentine Ines Gorrochategui (WTA #145 -> #110), Russian Nadejda Petrova (WTA #133), and Slovenian Tina Pisnik (WTA #217 -> #147). These three look like dangerous floaters at the moment - when they get through qualifying!

SRI Rankings Top 50 Issue #W68. 11th May 1999
Rank	Name	Rating Points	Rank Change	WTA Rank
1	Lindsay Davenport	1730	0	2
2	Martina Hingis	1707	0	1
3	Steffi Graf	1668	0	6
4	Venus Williams	1614	0	5
5	Monica Seles	1534	+1	3
6	Serena Williams	1525	-1	11
7	Jana Novotna	1438	0	4
8	Mary Pierce	1306	+1	8
9	Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario	1247	-1	7
10	Conchita Martinez	1167	+4	17
11	Anna Kournikova	1165	-1	15
12	Sandrine Testud	1153	-1	13
13	Patty Schnyder	1133	-1	12
14	Nathalie Tauziat	1132	-1	9
15	Dominique van Roost	1113	0	14
16	Amelie Mauresmo	1098	+2	10
17	Chanda Rubin	1061	0	23
18	Barbara Schett	1061	-2	20
19	Mary Joe Fernandez	1045	+1	47
20	Irina Spirlea	1030	+1	18
21	Natasha Zvereva	1025	-2	19
22	Julie Halard-Decugis	1009	+1	21
23	Amanda Coetzer	994	+1	16
24	Elena Likhovtseva	994	-2	22
25	Anke Huber	987	0	29
26	Amy Frazier	972	0	30
27	Silvia Farina	924	0	25
28	Henrieta Nagyova	910	0	24
29	Iva Majoli	875	0	31
30	Nathalie Dechy	859	+2	28
31	Lisa Raymond	853	-1	38
32	Ai Sugiyama	847	+1	27
33	Magui Serna	819	+2	26
34	Cara Black	817	0	34
35	Ruxandra Dragomir	813	-4	36
36	Virginia Ruano Pascual	774	0	37
37	Ines Gorrochategui	767	NQ	110
38	Corina Morariu	759	+7	33
39	Elena Dementieva	746	0	128
40	Sylvia Plischke	746	+11	32
41	Silvija Talaja	744	-3	71
42	Gala Leon Garcia	734	+10	45
43	Fabiola Zuluaga	733	-6	50
44	Jennifer Capriati	729	+5	115
45	Barbara Rittner	729	-4	49
46	Magdalena Grzybowska	718	-2	109
47	Elena Tatarkova	715	-7	46
48	Nadejda Petrova	712	NQ	133
49	Sarah Pitkowski	711	-3	35
50	Tina Pisnik	710	NQ	147
51	Mariaan de Swardt	709	-9	43
52	Karina Habsudova	704	-5	56
53	Anne-Gaelle Sidot	703	-10	42
54	Meilen Tu	699	-4	119
55	Brie Rippner	698	-7	61
59	Anna Smashnova	676	+3	39
67	Cristina Torrens-Valero	645	+20	85

Rating Winners:
Ines Gorrochategui +82+Q	(RU	Warsaw 99)
Cristina Torrens-Valero	+67	(W Warsaw 99, 2R Rome 98)
Gala Leon Garcia	+58	(2R Rome 99, 1R 98)
Sylvia Plischke	+55	(QF def ASV, Coetzer Rome 99)
Corina Morariu	+54	(3R Rome 99)
Amelie Mauresmo	+53	(SF Rome 99, 1Q 98)

Rating Losers:
Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario	-42	(SF Rome 98, 3R 99)
Ruxandra Dragomir	-37	(3R Rome 98, 2R 99)
Serena Williams	-27	(QF Rome 98, QF thrashed 99)

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

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