MOSCOW, January 5 (RIA Novosti) - The first Women's Tennis Association rankings of 2009 showed on Monday an unchanged top 10 still dominated by Russian players.
Serbia's Jelena Jankovic tops the weekly list, followed by Serena Williams of the United States, but then Russian women take six of the next nine slots. Dinara Safina is third and Elena Dementieva fourth, followed by Vera Zvonareva in seventh, Svetlana Kuznetsova eighth and Maria Sharapova ninth.
Nadia Petrova is still knocking on the door of the top 10 in eleventh spot.
The highest-ranked Russian to move down was Maria Kirilenko, who dropped two spots to 31, while Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova climbed two places to 43.
