Serena Williams entered her second consecutive week as the number one tennis player in the world on Monday.
Dinara Safina, the second-ranked player, is currently 282 points behind the 2009 Australian Open champion.
2008 POINTS DROPPED ON FEBRUARY 9: Paris, Pattaya City
Top 20 Rankings (February 9, 2009)
1. Serena Williams – United States – 9432
2. Dinara Safina – Russia – 9150
3. Jelena Jankovic – Serbia – 8580
4. Elena Dementieva – Russia – 8166
5. Vera Zvonareva – Russia – 6640
6. Venus Williams – United States – 6144
7. Svetlana Kuznetsova – Russia – 5510
8. Ana Ivanovic – Serbia – 5492
9. Nadia Petrova – Russia – 3882
10. Agnieszka Radwanska – Poland – 3867
11. Flavia Pennetta – Italy – 3280
12. Caroline Wozniacki – Denmark – 3230
13. Alize Cornet – France – 3192
14. Marion Bartoli – France – 3186
15. Victoria Azarenka – Belarus – 3166
16. Patty Schnyder – Switzerland – 3030
17. Maria Sharapova – Russia – 3030
18. Dominika Cibulkova – Slovakia – 2880
19. Zheng Jie – China – 2386
20. Anabel Medina Garrigues – Spain – 2332
SONY ERICSSON WTA TOUR RANKINGS
The Sony Ericsson WTA Tour Rankings is the worldwide computer ranking for women’s professional tennis.
The ranking system is a 52-week, cumulative system in which the number of tournament results that comprise a player’s ranking is capped at 16 Tournament results for Singles and 11 Tournament results for Doubles.
The results used to determine a player’s ranking are the tournaments yielding the player’s highest ranking points over the past 52 weeks, and must include a player’s ranking points from the Grand Slams, Premier Mandatory Tournaments and the Sony Ericsson Championships plus the best two (2) Premier 5 Tournament results for Top 10 Players.
