THE TIMES RANKINGS

TENNIS RANKINGS, COMMENTS:

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MEN No Player Comment 1 ROGER FEDERER After interesting gift from Gstaad officials, now we can’t say, “Don’t have a cow.” 2 MARK PHILIPPOUSSIS Wimbledon finalist, playing singles at UCLA, adds doubles duty with Hewitt 3 ANDY RODDICK Certainly sounds like the start of a beautiful friendship with Brad Gilbert 4 ANDRE AGASSI Decent bet his reasoned rhetoric will help calm the ATP-Grand Slam dispute 5 SEBASTIEN GROSJEAN Couldn’t make a dent against the power of Philippoussis 6 JUAN CARLOS FERRERO Resumes endless clay-court season as the top-seeded player in Kitzbuhel, Austria 7 LLEYTON HEWITT Was there on Wimbledon’s last day celebrating -- Clijsters’ doubles title 8 TIM HENMAN Never did wait-until-next-year have such a hollow sound at Wimbledon 9 JIRI NOVAK Stopped Federer’s 14-match winning streak, needed five sets in Gstaad final 10 WASHINGTON/ LOS ANGELES What a great idea. Let’s play the same week and dilute both fields! WOMEN No Player Comment 1 SERENA WILLIAMS When the music ended, La Costa was in and Stanford was out 2 VENUS WILLIAMS Hat trick: Out of Fed Cup, out of La Costa and seemingly out of luck lately 3 KIM CLIJSTERS Dominating against Slovakia in Fed Cup quarterfinals, losing five games in two matches 4 JUSTINE HENIN-HARDENNE Known: Semifinal opponents will be U.S. Unknown: Who will play? 5 JENNIFER CAPRIATI Standing headline: Serena Williams beats Capriati in three sets 6 LINDSAY DAVENPORT Stanford hit with two withdrawals in two days. Sore left foot knocks her out again 7 VERA ZVONAREVA Russia’s depth: All four team members won singles matches against Slovenia 8 ANASTASIA MYSKINA Next up: France in Fed Cup semifinals in November 9 AMELIE MAURESMO Successful return, winning twice in Fed Cup after missing Wimbledon 10 FEDERATION CUP Nice to see Billie Jean King regain some flexibility in allowing Rubin’s return

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