Russia’s Dinara Safina headed into her fourteenth week as the top-ranked player on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour when the rankings were updated on Monday.
Safina has now reigned as world number one for three weeks longer than seven-time major champion Venus Williams.
2008 POINTS DROPPED ON JULY 20: Stanford, Bad Gastein
Top 10 Rankings (July 20, 2009)
1. Dinara Safina – 10521 points
2. Serena Williams – 8509
3. Venus Williams – 6617
4. Elena Dementieva – 6591
5. Svetlana Kuznetsova – 6071
6. Jelena Jankovic – 5980
7. Vera Zvonareva – 5400
8. Victoria Azarenka – 5066
9. Caroline Wozniacki – 4840
10. Nadia Petrova – 3300
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.
