THE TIMES’ RANKINGS

TENNIS RANKINGS AND COMMENTS

*--* MEN 1 ANDRE AGASSI Residing in the nice, quiet side of the draw away from Roddick, Hewitt and Federer 2 LLEYTON HEWITT Suing ATP, irritated at losing Queen’s title. Perfect mind-set for Wimbledon 3 ANDY RODDICK Second round vs. Rusedski could actually make the first week interesting 4 ROGER FEDERER Hoping Hyung-Taik Lee won’t be this year’s Mario Ancic 5 GREG RUSEDSKI Nottingham was first grass-court title since 1997 6 TIM HENMAN Quixotic Wimbledon quest starts with first round against lucky loser Zib 7 MARK PHILIPPOUSSIS If you look up the definition of dark horse 8 SJENG SCHALKEN Still remembering that fifth-set lead vs. Hewitt last year in quarterfinals 9 JUAN CARLOS FERRERO Rankings tumble. Sorry, it’s grass-court season now 10 SPANIARDS Postcard to Barcelona: Miss you at Wimbledon WOMEN 1 SERENA WILLIAMS Will she get mad? Get even? How about both after French Open semifinal loss? 2 JUSTINE HENIN-HARDENNE Bid for a French-Wimbledon double took a hit with late hand/wrist injury 3 KIM CLIJSTERS Wimbledon shows romantic instincts, setting Centre Court aside for Clijsters-Hewitt 4 VENUS WILLIAMS Banished to Court 2 seems to answer the question: What have you done lately? 5 AMELIE MAURESMO Joining Seles and Kournikova on the all-injured team 6 CHANDA RUBIN Bomb scares, saving match points: Rubin still won title at Eastbourne 7 JENNIFER CAPRIATI Good news: Won’t be losing to Mauresmo in another Slam 8 LINDSAY DAVENPORT Warming up Court 1 for Rusedski, in testing injured foot at Wimbledon 9 NADIA PETROVA Missed Wimbledon because of injured foot last year 10 BRITISH TABLOIDS Pressing issue of first week: D. Hantuchova’s weight, or lack thereof

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