(Rankings as of August 29, 1994) The eternal question surrounding the tournaments played the week before the Open has always been: does winning one of these guarantee you a first-round loss at Flushing Meadow? Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Jacco Eltingh, and Alberto Berasategui certainly hope not, because the three of them are this week's past champions. Yevgeny is the Mover of the Week, gaining 171 points and also expanding his lead over Pete Sampras in the Mover of the Year contest. Berasategui, while not making it into the Top 5 Movers list, has now gained over 1100 points this year, not bad for a guy whose name is still a mystery (both its pronunciation and its spelling) to the vast majority of the tennis-watching public. And Karol Kucera, the losing finalist to Alberto in Umag, jumped a whopping 26 spots on the computer. The Losers of the Week are all of 1993's week-before- the-Open top finishers; perhaps each decided that they want to do WELL at Flushing this year 8-). Jim Courier, back from that extended sabbatical, remains the Loser of the Year of players still in the Top 100. All of this week's "newcomers" are previous residents of the Top 100; as for the goners, could we have now seen the last of Jonas B. Svensson in the upper ranks? This Rank Points Points Diff. Diff. Week's Last Rank This Last Since since Rank Player Week Diff. Week Week +/- Jan. 3 June 6 ------ ----------------------- ---- ----- ------ ------ ---- ------ ------ 1 Sampras, Pete 1 0 5405 5405 0 1277 147 2 Ivanisevic, Goran 2 0 3182 3182 0 996 498 3 Bruguera, Sergi 3 0 2860 2860 0 270 157 4 Stich, Michael 4 0 2853 2853 0 -592 -195 5 Edberg, Stefan 5 0 2767 2798 -31 196 -38 6 Chang, Michael 6 0 2443 2579 -136 289 6 7 Becker, Boris 7 0 2442 2442 0 484 247 8 Medvedev, Andrei 8 0 2229 2229 0 -186 -335 9 Martin, Todd 9 0 2217 2201 16 522 -6 10 Berasategui, Alberto 10 0 2086 2037 49 1160 288 11 Kafelnikov, Yevgeny 14 3 1930 1759 171 1492 528 12 Courier, Jim 11 -1 1867 1867 0 -1523 -576 13 Ferreira, Wayne 12 -1 1832 1832 0 554 438 14 Muster, Thomas 13 -1 1720 1819 -99 -313 -371 15 Pioline, Cedric 18 3 1561 1461 100 -451 -115 16 Korda, Petr 16 0 1536 1536 0 -206 -415 17 Rosset, Marc 15 -2 1465 1656 -191 -20 57 18 Gustafsson, Magnus 17 -1 1453 1497 -44 -133 -498 19 Costa, Carlos 19 0 1335 1390 -55 191 -106 20 Agassi, Andre 20 0 1326 1326 0 154 -97 21 Stoltenberg, Jason 22 1 1278 1278 0 501 434 22 Boetsch, Arnaud 21 -1 1246 1282 -36 -98 -196 23 Yzaga, Jaime 23 0 1216 1216 0 236 1 24 Gaudenzi, Andrea 24 0 1211 1211 0 599 199 25 Rafter, Patrick 26 1 1148 1148 0 542 -33 26 Volkov, Alexander 25 -1 1137 1150 -13 -245 -152 27 Larsson, Magnus 27 0 1121 1140 -19 260 48 28 Washington, MaliVai 31 3 1109 1049 60 -64 129 29 Haarhuis, Paul 28 -1 1095 1095 0 288 -61 30 Lendl, Ivan 29 -1 1054 1067 -13 -308 -35 31 Krajicek, Richard 30 -1 1052 1052 0 -520 -101 32 Dosedel, Slava 32 0 1037 1037 0 436 60 33 Sanchez, Javier 34 1 983 986 -3 27 -257 34 Corretja, Alex 35 1 979 979 0 402 121 35 Schaller, Gilbert 36 1 909 909 0 332 258 36 Wheaton, David 37 1 892 892 0 247 443 37 Eltingh, Jacco 56 19 869 718 151 259 133 38 Enqvist, Thomas 33 -5 858 1002 -144 326 185 39 Chesnokov, Andrei 38 -1 846 874 -28 -248 -5 40 Woodforde, Mark 40 0 842 842 0 -220 103 41 Karbacher, Bernd 39 -2 841 860 -19 216 379 42 Braasch, Karsten 41 -1 839 839 0 229 50 43 Krickstein, Aaron 42 -1 815 815 0 68 -218 44 Skoff, Horst 47 3 802 766 36 216 240 45 Furlan, Renzo 46 1 798 771 27 208 -28 46 Agenor, Ronald 44 -2 795 795 0 173 -189 47 Stark, Jonathan 45 -2 792 792 0 -81 7 48 Reneberg, Richey 62 14 787 686 101 -210 -149 49 Fromberg, Richard 43 -6 773 801 -28 -68 268 50 Gilbert, Brad 49 -1 749 749 0 -180 -173 51 Rusedski, Greg 50 -1 740 740 0 33 -1 52 Palmer, Jared 51 -1 739 739 0 301 35 53 Holm, Henrik 52 -1 736 736 0 36 -169 54 Vacek, Daniel 53 -1 732 732 0 334 -2 55 Carbonell, Tomas 54 -1 732 729 3 208 120 56 Novacek, Karel 48 -8 731 760 -29 -681 82 57 Adams, Chuck 70 13 724 601 123 125 116 58 Delaitre, Olivier 55 -3 723 723 0 163 118 59 Damm, Martin 57 -2 706 706 0 143 50 60 Pescosolido, Stefano 58 -2 706 706 0 91 -46 61 Filippini, Marcelo 59 -2 698 698 0 158 698 62 Hlasek, Jakob 60 -2 697 697 0 105 12 63 Mansdorf, Amos 61 -2 692 692 0 -461 -71 64 Arrese, Jordi 67 3 685 624 61 74 -24 65 Rikl, David 63 -2 685 685 0 185 -80 66 Costa, Alberto 64 -2 667 667 0 N/A 144 67 Masur, Wally 65 -2 642 642 0 -686 -205 68 Zoecke, Marcus 66 -2 632 632 0 364 632 69 Kucera, Karol 95 26 609 483 126 347 609 70 Leconte, Henri 69 -1 606 606 0 134 -165 71 Bjorkman, Jonas 88 17 604 511 93 105 132 72 Clavet, Francisco 71 -1 600 600 0 122 600 73 Bates, Jeremy 72 -1 598 598 0 113 131 74 Morgan, Jamie 73 -1 591 591 0 -18 -141 75 Goellner, Marc 82 7 584 550 34 -395 -20 76 Santoro, Fabrice 74 -2 579 579 0 -63 579 77 Dreekmann, Hendrik 75 -2 575 575 0 N/A -79 78 Fleurian, Jean-Philippe 76 -2 570 570 0 133 -6 79 El Aynaoui, Youness 81 2 568 551 17 -99 -140 80 Black, Byron 77 -3 565 565 0 8 -21 81 Mattar, Luiz 68 -13 561 613 -52 -33 -232 82 Apell, Jan 91 9 553 497 56 280 553 83 Jonsson, Lars 80 -3 551 551 0 232 76 84 Gilbert, Rodolphe 83 -1 547 547 0 -16 82 85 Renzenbrink, Joern 92 7 542 494 48 137 51 86 Petchey, Mark 84 -2 538 538 0 198 538 87 McEnroe, Patrick 79 -8 534 554 -20 -54 -104 88 O'Brien, Alex 86 -2 531 531 0 153 531 89 Cherkasov, Andrei 85 -4 515 535 -20 -367 -165 90 Sanchez, Emilio N/A N/A 511 N/A N/A -307 511 91 Raoux, Guillaume 89 -2 509 509 0 -39 26 92 Nargiso, Diego 87 -5 507 514 -7 142 55 93 Davin, Franco 90 -3 494 503 -9 39 4 94 Bergstrom, Christian 93 -1 484 484 0 -172 484 95 Grabb, Jim 94 -1 483 483 0 291 483 96 Markus, Gabriel N/A N/A 478 N/A N/A 34 -39 97 Hadad, Mauricio N/A N/A 475 N/A N/A 55 -21 98 Shelton, Bryan 99 1 472 472 0 -27 472 99 Meligeni, Fernando 100 1 470 470 0 -8 19 100 Siemerink, Jan N/A N/A 469 N/A N/A -181 -47 Rank Points Points This This Last Points Week Player Week Week +/- ---- ----------------------- ------ ------ ------ MOVERS: 11 Kafelnikov, Yevgeny 1930 1759 171 37 Eltingh, Jacco 869 718 151 69 Kucera, Karol 609 483 126 57 Adams, Chuck 724 601 123 48 Reneberg, Richey 787 686 101 LOSERS: 17 Rosset, Marc 1465 1656 -191 38 Enqvist, Thomas 858 1002 -144 6 Chang, Michael 2443 2579 -136 14 Muster, Thomas 1720 1819 -99 19 Costa, Carlos 1335 1390 -55 NEWCOMERS: Emilio Sanchez Gabriel Markus Mauricio Hadad Jan Siemerink GONERS: Karim Alami Nicklas Kulti Jonas Svensson Brett Steven