Matches
Played
The Spanish players at the top took a week off but are back in action
this week. That allowed Rainer Schuettler to hit the century mark
and move into 3rd place. His semifinals appearance at the Masters
Cup was his 100th match of the year. Roger Federer won the Masters
Cup and moves into 5th place. Andy Roddick also got in 4 matches
there and reaches the top 10. But the players in the lower ranks
are not done yet and they still have a chance to move up.
Winning
Percentage
As we suspected, the Masters Cup with its round robin format, saw some
of the top players slip in the standings. Andre Agassi suffered 2
losses, both to Federer, and falls to #5. Guillermo Coria also fell
out of the top 10. At the top, Young-Joon Kim won a match and then
withdrew from his second round match without playing. So he gets
a win to move to 30-3 and stays at #1. Andrea Stoppini of Italy has
won the first three legs of the Italy #7 satellite and moves his record
to 42-9, enough to reach the top 10 at #6. Wesley Whitehouse also
reaches the top 10 after reaching the semifinals in what results we have
so far from the South/Central Africa satellite. (Results included
are only through two of the quarterfinals). And Roger Federer was
the only one to come out of the Masters Cup unscathed and stays at #8.