Venus Williams returned to the Top 5 for the first time since August 2003 after winning her 40th Tour singles title at the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships.
Kaia Kanepi became the first woman from Estonia to reach the Top 20 on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour rankings.
2008 POINTS DROPPED ON FEBRUARY 23: Doha, Bogota
Top 20 Rankings (February 23, 2009)
1. Serena Williams – U.S. – 9982
2. Dinara Safina – Russia – 9021
3. Jelena Jankovic – Serbia – 8460
4. Elena Dementieva – Russia – 8266
5. Venus Williams – U.S. – 6814
6. Vera Zvonareva – Russia – 6320
7. Ana Ivanovic – Serbia – 5562
8. Svetlana Kuznetsova – Russia – 5381
9. Nadia Petrova – Russia – 3882
10. Agnieszka Radwanska – Poland – 3448
11. Victoria Azarenka – Belarus – 3406
12. Alize Cornet – France – 3256
13. Caroline Wozniacki – Denmark – 3200
14. Marion Bartoli – France – 3186
15. Flavia Pennetta – Italy – 3070
16. Patty Schnyder – Switzerland – 2872
17. Dominika Cibulkova – Slovakia – 2760
18. Zheng Jie – China – 2466
19. Amelie Mauresmo – France – 2452
20. Kaia Kanepi – Estonia – 2400
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.
