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Serena Williams tops season-ending rankings

Hamburg - Serena Williams takes the women's world number one rankings into 2010 as she topped this year's final list issued by the WTA on Monday. Williams regained first place from injured Dinara Safina last week and leads the way with 9,075 points f...
Posted : Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:16:27 GMT
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Hamburg - Serena Williams takes the women's world number one rankings into 2010 as she topped this year's final list issued by the WTA on Monday. Williams regained first place from injured Dinara Safina last week and leads the way with 9,075 points from the Russians Safina (7,800) and Svetlana Kuznetsova (6,141).

WTA top 10 as of November 9 (previous ranking in parenthesis): "#" 1. (1) Serena Williams, United States, 9,075 points 2. (2) Dinara Safina, Russia, 7,800 3. (3) Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russia, 6,141 4. (4) Caroline Wozniacki, Denmark, 5,875 5. (5) Elena Dementieva, Russia, 5,585 6. (6) Venus Williams, United States, 5,126 7. (7) Victoria Azarenka, Belarus, 4,820 8. (8) Jelena Jankovic, Serbia, 3,965 9. (9) Vera Zvonareva, Russia, 3,560 10. (10) Agnieszka Radwanska, Poland, 3,450 "#"

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