Hamburg - Dinara Safina retained the world number one position in women's tennis despite her latest failure to win a Grand Slam title, while US Open champion Kim Clijsters returned into the rankings in 19th place. The Russian Safina leads the way in the rankings issued on Monday by the WTA with 9,070 points from US Open semi-finalist Serena Williams (7,807) and her sister Venus Williams (6,645). Safina went out in the third round in New York.
Clijsters came out of retirement last month to win her second career major on Sunday in New York and returned into the rankings in 19th place with 2,310 points.
The New York finalist Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark improved from eighth to a career-high sixth place with 5,850.
WTA top 10 as of September 14 (previous ranking in parenthesis): 1. (1) Dinara Safina, Russia, 9,070 points 2. (2) Serena Williams, United States, 7,807 3. (3) Venus Williams, United States, 6,645 4. (6) Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russia, 6,060 5. (4) Elena Dementieva, Russia, 6,035 6. (8) Caroline Wozniacki, Denmark, 5,850 7. (7) Vera Zvonareva, Russia, 5,460 8. (5) Jelena Jankovic, Serbia, 5,320 9. (9) Victoria Azarenka, Belarus, 4,592 10. (10) Flavia Pennetta, Italy, 3,490
