Here are the Women’s ATP tennis rankings as of May 3, 2009. Not much has changed, except for Svetlana Kuznetsova and Victoria Azarenka trading places. Dinara Safina stil holds the number one spot. Their previous ranking is in parenthesis.

1. (1) Dinara Safina, Russia, 9,071 points
2. (2) Serena Williams, United States, 8,272
3. (3) Elena Dementieva, Russia, 7,391
4. (4) Jelena Jankovic, Serbia, 7,350
5. (5) Venus Williams, United States, 7,102
6. (6) Vera Zvonareva, Russia, 6,040
7. (7) Ana Ivanovic, Serbia, 5,174
8. (9) Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russia, 4,776
9. (8) Victoria Azarenka, Belarus, 4,546
10. (10) Nadia Petrova, …read more

On April 20th, a new world number one player will be crowned. Today (April 8th) the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour announced that Dinara Safina will be replacing Serena Williams as the top women’s tennis player. Dinara is only the second Russian woman to hold the No. 1 spot. She joins Maria Sharapova.

“It’s a great honor to reach the No. 1 ranking and it is a dream that every girl who has ever wanted to play professional tennis shares. It is even extra special for me since my brother Marat was able to reach the No. 1 ranking and I am …read more