Serena Williams Tops List of 2010 Australian Open Seeds

Reigning Australian Open champion and world number one Serena Williams leads the list of seedings for the 2010 tennis season’s opening Grand Slam.

Williams has been named the top women’s seed at the Australian Open followed by Dinara Safina, Svetlana Kuznetsova and Caroline Wozniacki. The main draw ceremony will take place on Friday, January 15 at 10:45 am in Melbourne.

2010 Australian Open Women’s Seeds

1 (USA) Serena Williams

2 (RUS) Dinara Safina

3 (RUS) Svetlana Kuznetsova

4 (DEN) Caroline Wozniacki

5 (RUS) Elena Dementieva

6 (USA) Venus Williams

7 (BLR) Victoria Azarenka

8 (SRB) Jelena Jankovic

9 (RUS) Vera Zvonareva

10 (POL) Agnieszka Radwanska

11 (FRA) Marion Bartoli

12 (ITA) Flavia Pennetta

13 (AUS) Samantha Stosur

14 (RUS) Maria Sharapova

15 (BEL) Kim Clijsters

16 (CHN) Na Li

17 (ITA) Francesca Schiavone

18 (FRA) Virginie Razzano

19 (RUS) Nadia Petrova

20 (SRB) Ana Ivanovic

21 (GER) Sabine Lisicki

22 (SVK) Daniela Hantuchova

23 (SVK) Dominika Cibulkova

24 (ESP) Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez

25 (ESP) Anabel Medina Garrigues

26 (FRA) Aravane Rezai

27 (RUS) Alisa Kleybanova

28 (RUS) Elena Vesnina

29 (ISR) Shahar Peer

30 (UKR) Kateryna Bondarenko

31 (UKR) Alona Bondarenko

32 (ESP) Carla Suarez Navarro

Tournament officials chose not to use discretionary seeding to position Justine Henin in the draw, so the Belgian former champion remains a dangerous threat in the opening rounds of the tournament.

The players were seeded by ranking, with the exception of world No. 16 Yanina Wickmayer, who is playing the qualifying tournament because the entry deadline passed before she was reinstated by the International Tennis Federation.