(Rankings as of 11/21/1994) When you win 10 tournaments in a year, including two Grand Slams and the ATP Championships in Frankfurt, you're going to be the number one player in the world. So, ladies and gentlemen, a fine round of applause, please, for Pete Sampras, who despite a rough patch during the second half of the year still managed to outpace the #2 player in the world by a mere 1848 points. (So, think of it this way: even if that call on the baseline at 4-5 15-30(?) hadn't been overruled, and Andre had gone on to beat Pete and then to win the tournament, Pete would now be #1 in the world by a mere 1400-odd points. Whew! That was a close one 8-).) Boris Becker deservedly is the #2 Mover of the Week, while Agassi and Sergi Bruguera are also rewarded for their semifinalist finishes. Now, about the REST of this list. Quite simply, I'm as mystified by it as you are. (Uh oh--the truth is out--I really don't know what's going on deep in the heart of the IBM/ATP computer.) It's easy to surmise that somewhere a challenger event was held this week (and, let me guess, Jim Grabb beat Jeremy Bates in the final?), but I find it hard to believe that guys such as Petr Korda were there and only picked up a point or two. I mean, look at how many people gained 5 points, or 3, or 1. So, my official guess is that either 1) all of these guys did play at a challenger event or 2) either last week's rankings or this week's rankings were/are incorrect. (Gulp.) But, until I see otherwise, this is how they stand: 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 5097 4579 518 969 -161 2 Agassi, Andre 2 0 3249 3065 184 2077 1826 3 Becker, Boris 5 2 3237 2848 389 1279 1042 4 Bruguera, Sergi 3 -1 3007 2937 70 417 304 5 Ivanisevic, Goran 4 -1 2936 2936 0 750 252 6 Chang, Michael 6 0 2647 2627 20 493 210 7 Edberg, Stefan 8 1 2471 2438 33 -100 -334 8 Berasategui, Alberto 7 -1 2470 2470 0 1544 672 9 Stich, Michael 9 0 2380 2380 0 -1065 -668 10 Martin, Todd 10 0 2307 2307 0 612 84 11 Kafelnikov, Yevgeny 11 0 2174 2172 2 1736 772 12 Ferreira, Wayne 12 0 2121 2121 0 843 727 13 Courier, Jim 13 0 1909 1909 0 -1481 -534 14 Rosset, Marc 14 0 1770 1765 5 285 362 15 Medvedev, Andrei 15 0 1655 1655 0 -760 -909 16 Muster, Thomas 16 0 1616 1616 0 -417 -475 17 Krajicek, Richard 17 0 1407 1407 0 -165 254 18 Korda, Petr 18 0 1397 1395 2 -345 -554 19 Larsson, Magnus 19 0 1331 1323 8 470 258 20 Stoltenberg, Jason 20 0 1288 1288 0 511 444 21 Rafter, Patrick 21 0 1260 1258 2 654 79 22 Corretja, Alex 22 0 1256 1256 0 679 398 23 Eltingh, Jacco 23 0 1214 1209 5 604 478 24 Gaudenzi, Andrea 24 0 1184 1183 1 572 172 25 Volkov, Alexander 25 0 1136 1126 10 -246 -153 26 Karbacher, Bernd 26 0 1091 1091 0 466 629 27 Costa, Carlos 27 0 1084 1084 0 -60 -357 28 Novacek, Karel 28 0 1079 1079 0 -333 430 29 Dosedel, Slava 29 0 1066 1066 0 465 89 30 Washington, MaliVai 30 0 1020 1020 0 -153 40 31 Yzaga, Jaime 31 0 999 998 1 19 -216 32 Chesnokov, Andrei 32 0 971 971 0 -123 120 33 Gustafsson, Magnus 33 0 969 969 0 -617 -982 34 Reneberg, Richey 34 0 915 914 1 -82 -21 35 Palmer, Jared 35 0 908 903 5 470 204 36 Krickstein, Aaron 36 0 903 902 1 156 -130 37 Haarhuis, Paul 37 0 887 886 1 80 -269 38 Clavet, Francisco 38 0 884 884 0 406 884 39 Wheaton, David 39 0 874 874 0 229 425 40 Forget, Guy 40 0 868 868 0 609 868 41 Furlan, Renzo 41 0 866 865 1 276 40 42 Sanchez, Javier 42 0 844 844 0 -112 -396 43 Woodforde, Mark 43 0 842 842 0 -220 103 44 Schaller, Gilbert 44 0 832 832 0 255 181 45 Adams, Chuck 45 0 831 823 8 232 223 46 Santoro, Fabrice 46 0 814 814 0 172 814 47 Vacek, Daniel 47 0 814 812 2 416 80 48 Skoff, Horst 48 0 802 802 0 216 240 49 Delaitre, Olivier 49 0 797 792 5 237 192 50 Bjorkman, Jonas 50 0 785 783 2 286 313 51 Pioline, Cedric 52 1 767 766 1 -1245 -909 52 Costa, Alberto 51 -1 767 766 1 N/A 244 53 Boetsch, Arnaud 53 0 745 745 0 -599 -697 54 Lendl, Ivan 54 0 742 742 0 -620 -347 55 Braasch, Karsten 55 0 735 732 3 125 -54 56 Zoecke, Marcus 56 0 729 728 1 461 729 57 Kucera, Karol 58 1 724 723 1 462 724 58 Davin, Franco 57 -1 724 724 0 269 234 59 Fromberg, Richard 59 0 724 723 1 -117 219 60 Enqvist, Thomas 60 0 692 692 0 160 19 61 Filippini, Marcelo 61 0 687 687 0 147 687 62 Carbonell, Tomas 62 0 685 685 0 161 73 63 Agenor, Ronald 65 2 674 663 11 52 -310 64 Roux, Lionel 63 -1 672 672 0 N/A 672 65 Dreekmann, Hendrik 66 1 664 663 1 N/A 10 66 Stark, Jonathan 67 1 651 651 0 -222 -134 67 Black, Byron 68 1 642 640 2 85 56 68 Grabb, Jim 81 13 639 550 89 447 639 69 Holm, Henrik 69 0 630 630 0 -70 -275 70 Mansdorf, Amos 71 1 620 619 1 -533 -143 71 Hlasek, Jacob 70 -1 620 620 0 28 -65 72 McEnroe, Patrick 72 0 608 608 0 20 -30 73 Rikl, David 64 -9 672 671 1 172 -93 74 Bates, Jeremy 74 0 603 591 12 118 136 75 Mattar, Luiz 73 -2 608 608 0 14 -185 76 Sanchez, Emilio 75 -1 569 569 0 -249 569 77 Gilbert, Brad 76 -1 565 565 0 -364 -357 78 Renzenbrink, Joern 77 -1 563 563 0 158 72 79 Tarango, Jeff 78 -1 562 562 0 47 82 80 Spadea, Vince 79 -1 560 560 0 N/A 560 81 Goellner, Marc 80 -1 559 559 0 -420 -45 82 Siemerink, Jan 85 3 528 528 0 -122 12 83 Martinez, Oscar 82 -1 544 544 0 N/A 544 84 Pozzi, Gianluca 87 3 522 522 0 90 522 85 Mronz, Alexander 84 -1 530 530 0 222 530 86 Arrese, Jordi 83 -3 531 531 0 -80 -178 87 Steven, Brett 86 -1 526 526 0 -262 -19 88 Apell, Jan 88 0 512 512 0 239 512 89 Steeb, Carl-Uwe 92 3 509 509 0 4 509 90 O'Brien, Alex 89 -1 511 511 0 133 511 91 Woodbridge, Todd 90 -1 510 510 0 92 510 92 Meligeni, Fernando 91 -1 510 510 0 32 59 93 Leconte, Henri 93 0 503 503 0 31 -268 94 Fleurian, Jean-Philippe 94 0 499 499 0 62 -77 95 Olhovskiy, Andrei 96 1 496 496 0 -112 16 96 Jonsson, Lars 97 1 496 496 0 177 21 97 Ondruska, Marcos 98 1 488 488 0 -232 488 98 Kulti, Nicklas 99 1 488 488 0 -249 -45 99 Damm, Martin 100 1 488 488 0 -75 -168 100 Alami, Karim N/A N/A 488 N/A N/A N/A 33 Rank Points Points This This Last Points Week Player Week Week +/- ---- ----------------------- ------ ------ ------ MOVERS: 1 Sampras, Pete 5097 4579 518 3 Becker, Boris 3237 2848 389 2 Agassi, Andre 3249 3065 184 68 Grabb, Jim 639 550 89 4 Bruguera, Sergi 3007 2937 70 7 Edberg, Stefan 2471 2438 33 6 Chang, Michael 2647 2627 20 74 Bates, Jeremy 603 591 12 LOSERS: This week, everyone's a winner! NEWCOMERS: 100 Karim Alami FAREWELL TO: Oliver Gross MOVER OF THE YEAR CONTEST: At last, now comes the time to crown 1994's Mover of the Year, that player who has leapt farther than any of his competitors during the past 11 1/2 months. And can it really be any surprise that the winner is Andre Agassi; in January of 1994 Andre was #24 in the world, had his hand in a cast, and was beginning to look like a has-been. But now, he's the #2 guy, and, scarier still, does not have any points to defend until the week of February 20, 1995. (And, if you want to be REALLY specific about Andre's unbelievable performance in 1994, consider that on February 21 Andre was ranked at #32 and had only 959 points, making his total leap 2290 points since his first tournament of the year.) Let's also recognize the accomplishments of Yevgeny Kafelnikov--in fact, let's remember the wisdom of Pete Sampras, who after beating Yevgeny in the 2nd Round at the Australian Open (6-3,2-6,6-3,1-6,9-7), predicted that his near-conqueror would be a Top 20 player by the end of the year. Then there's Alberto "Man of Clay" Berasategui, who, it must be said in all honesty, is probably going to want to encase 1994 in glass, because he may not see this sort of performance again. Then there's the boys at the bottom of the list; it is no doubt small consolation to them that they may not actually be the BIGGEST point-droppers of 1994; for now, this list only contains the Top 100 players. There may be one or two guys who lost more than 1400 points, but who are now so far down the computer as to be invisible. Because of this, I will refrain from giving Jim Courier any snide sort of trophy; the numbers, however, speak for themselves.... (My criteria on this list: anything greater than a 300-point gain or loss during the year.) Rank Points Points This This on Points Week Player Week Jan. 1 +/- ---- ----------------------- ------ ------ ------ MOVERS: 2 Agassi, Andre 3249 1172 2077 11 Kafelnikov, Yevgeny 2174 438 1736 8 Berasategui, Alberto 2470 926 1544 3 Becker, Boris 3237 1958 1279 1 Sampras, Pete 5097 4128 969 12 Ferreira, Wayne 2121 1278 843 5 Ivanisevic, Goran 2936 2186 750 22 Corretja, Alex 1256 577 679 21 Rafter, Patrick 1260 606 654 10 Martin, Todd 2307 1695 612 40 Forget, Guy 868 259 609 23 Eltingh, Jacco 1214 610 604 24 Gaudenzi, Andrea 1184 612 572 20 Stoltenberg, Jason 1288 777 511 6 Chang, Michael 2647 2154 493 35 Palmer, Jared 908 438 470 19 Larsson, Magnus 1331 861 470 26 Karbacher, Bernd 1091 625 466 29 Dosedel, Slava 1066 601 465 57 Kucera, Karol 724 262 462 56 Zoecke, Marcus 729 268 461 68 Grabb, Jim 639 192 447 4 Bruguera, Sergi 3007 2590 417 47 Vacek, Daniel 814 398 416 38 Clavet, Francisco 884 478 406 LOSERS: 28 Novacek, Karel 1079 1412 -333 18 Korda, Petr 1397 1742 -345 77 Gilbert, Brad 565 929 -364 16 Muster, Thomas 1616 2033 -417 81 Goellner, Marc 559 979 -420 70 Mansdorf, Amos 620 1153 -533 53 Boetsch, Arnaud 745 1344 -599 33 Gustafsson, Magnus 969 1586 -617 54 Lendl, Ivan 742 1362 -620 15 Medvedev, Andrei 1655 2415 -760 9 Stich, Michael 2380 3445 -1065 51 Pioline, Cedric 767 2012 -1245 13 Courier, Jim 1909 3390 -1481 The ATP determines its rankings on a Best-14 basis over a rolling 52-week calendar--this means that the points given for a player's best 14 results over the previous 52 weeks make up the player's computer point total. 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