Dinara Safina of Russia has claimed the World No1 Tennis ranking in the WTA Championship displacing the formidable Serena Williams from the coveted top spot. The latest Sony Ericsson WTA Tour Rankings were released today and Safina becomes the second Russian player to hit the top spot with Maria Sharapova being the other who held the title for 17 weeks.
The current line up in the WTA Top 5 reads as follows:
1. Dinara Safina Russia 2. Serena Williams United States 3. Elena Dementieva Russia 4. Jelena Jankovic Serbia 5. Venus Williams United States
Serena Williams managed to hold the No1 spot for 11 weeks and this recent tumble is being put down to her suffering a leg injury , and has obviously affected her performance and resulting ranking.
Some mention in the media that Dinara Safina as good as she is, has not won a major grand slam title in her career and the likes of Serena Williams who has won 10 major events including recently last years US open and this years Australian Open is in a different class, and does start to raise questions over the ranking system, but the ranking system doesn’t obviously alllow for injuries.
Which ever way you look at it though, the top 5 still contains the Williams sisters, and they are still very much in the running for the major Grand Slam matches which are getting ever closer which are held at Melbourne, New York, Paris and London respectively. The current top ranking is a temporary state of affairs in our opinion, and Williams, once injury recovered, will be looking to regain that top spot without a doubt!
