Serena Williams regained the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour world number one ranking on Monday.
2008 POINTS DROPPED ON OCTOBER 12: Moscow
Top 10 Rankings (October 12, 2009)
1. Serena Williams – 7945 points
2. Dinara Safina – 7940
3. Venus Williams – 6445
4. Svetlana Kuznetsova – 5981
5. Elena Dementieva – 5875
6. Caroline Wozniacki – 5575
7. Vera Zvonareva – 4810
8. Victoria Azarenka – 4590
9. Jelena Jankovic – 3965
10. Agnieszka Radwanska – 3710
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.
