WTA Women's Tennis Career Prize Money Leaders - 02/01/2010

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February 01, 2010

World #1 and 12-time major winner Serena Williams pushed her record earnings beyond $30 million dollars by winning the Australian Open 2010 singles title and pairing up with sister Venus to win the women's doubles title as well. Justine Henin of Belgium, who lost to Serena in the singles championship match in Melbourne has broken the $20 million dollar mark and moved past Martina Hingis to #6 in the all-time WTA women's tennis career prize earnings list. Venus Williams remains at #2 in the list with $25.4 million, while other active players in the top 20 include Kim Clijsters (#9), Svetalana Kuznetsova (#12), Maria Sharapova (#13), Elena Dementieva (#14), Dinara Safina (#18), and Jelena Jankovic (#20).

The list below includes the top 50 WTA women's tennis career prize money leaders. Earnings specified combine singles and doubles earnings, and is current as of February 1, 2010.

1 WILLIAMS, SERENA                     $30,491,460
2 WILLIAMS, VENUS                      $25,420,036
3 DAVENPORT, LINDSAY                   $22,144,735
4 GRAF, STEFFI                         $21,895,277
5 NAVRATILOVA, MARTINA                 $21,626,089
6 HENIN, JUSTINE                       $20,352,606
7 HINGIS, MARTINA                      $20,130,657
8 SANCHEZ-VICARIO, ARANTXA             $16,942,640
9 CLIJSTERS, KIM                       $16,477,052
10 MAURESMO, AMELIE                    $15,022,476
11 SELES, MONICA                       $14,891,762
12 KUZNETSOVA, SVETLANA                $13,892,894
13 SHARAPOVA, MARIA                    $13,109,099
14 DEMENTIEVA, ELENA                   $13,095,414
15 MARTINEZ, CONCHITA                  $11,527,977
16 NOVOTNA, JANA                       $11,249,284
17 CAPRIATI, JENNIFER                  $10,206,639
18 SAFINA, DINARA                      $9,858,126
19 PIERCE, MARY                        $9,793,119
20 JANKOVIC, JELENA                    $9,487,221
21 EVERT, CHRIS                        $8,896,195
22 SABATINI, GABRIELA                  $8,785,850
23 SUGIYAMA, AI                        $8,128,126
24 PETROVA, NADIA                      $8,090,412
25 RAYMOND, LISA                       $8,037,645
26 SCHNYDER, PATTY                     $8,002,702
27 ZVEREVA, NATASHA                    $7,792,503
28 IVANOVIC, ANA                       $7,235,889
29 ZVONAREVA, VERA                     $6,727,321
30 HANTUCHOVA, DANIELA                 $6,725,110
31 TAUZIAT, NATHALIE                   $6,650,093
32 SUKOVA, HELENA                      $6,391,245
33 LIKHOVTSEVA, ELENA                  $6,237,556
34 BLACK, CARA                         $6,215,870
35 RUANO PASCUAL VIRGINIA              $6,014,076
36 MYSKINA, ANASTASIA                  $5,606,725
37 COETZER, AMANDA                     $5,594,821
38 SHRIVER, PAM                        $5,460,566
39 FERNANDEZ, MARY JOE                 $5,258,471
40 SUAREZ, PAOLA                       $5,134,870
41 STUBBS, RENNAE                      $4,865,093
42 HUBER, ANKE                         $4,768,292
43 SCHIAVONE, FRANCESCA                $4,704,193
44 FERNANDEZ, GIGI                     $4,681,906
45 GARRISON, ZINA                      $4,590,816
46 RUBIN, CHANDA                       $4,470,180
47 MAJOLI, IVA                         $4,405,867
48 MALEEVA, MAGDALENA                  $4,398,582
49 STOSUR, SAMANTHA                    $4,397,723
50 DECHY, NATHALIE                     $4,281,064

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WTA Women's Tennis Rankings - Two Chinese in Top 20, Venus in Top 5

For the first time in history, a Chinese player is ranked in the top 10 and another one is ranked in the top 20, as the latest WTA women's tennis rankings is published following the Australian Open 2010 - the first grand slam of the year. Li Na becomes the first ever, man or woman, tennis player to join the elite list of top players while compatriot Zheng Jie is back in the top 20. Both were semifinalists in Melbourne with Li losing to eventual champion and world #1 Serena Williams while Zheng lost to former #1 and comeback star Justine Henin. Five time Wimbledon champion Venus Williams returns to the top 5 after improving her 2nd round finish from last year's Australian Open.

Some observations on the February 01, 2010 WTA Singles Rankings:

- Caroline Wozniacki is at her career high ranking of #3
- Yanina Wickmayer is Belgium's top ranked player at #15
- 2009 Australian semifinalist Vera Zvonareva falls 5 spots out of the top 10 and into #14
- Angelique Kerber of Germany is the biggest jumper into the top 100 from #118 to #85
- Maria Kirilenko made the biggest jump within the top 100 moving up 21 spots from #58 to #37
- Jelena Dokic is the biggest slider going down 40 spots to #96 as she failed to match her quarterfinal run in last year's Australian Open
- Australian Open finalist and former #1 Justine Henin remains unranked and will need to play one more tournament to get a ranking. She has 1600 points in her first two tournaments, the same ranking points with #38 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia
- The top five represent majority of the finalists in the past 4 grand slams, with the exception of the 2 Belgians: US Open champion Kim Clijsters and Henin

The full WTA Women's Tennis rankings can be accessed by using this link.

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How far will Nadal slide down the Rankings?

After failing to defend his Australian Open title, Spain's Rafael Nadal fell to #4 in the world rankings - his lowest since June 2005 - almost five years. With another injury that will prevent him from competing in his next tournament, Nadal is sure to slide further down the rankings. He is defending a lot of points in the first five months of the year.

His current ranking points include the following:

Tournament - Points - Drop Off Date

Rotterdam - 300 - Feb 15, 2010
Indian Wells - 1,000 - March 22, 2010
Monte Carlo - 1,000 - April 19, 2010
Barcelona - 500 - April 26, 2010
Rome - 1,000 - May 3, 2010

The above points total 3,800 - more than the number of points that #8 Robin Soderling won last year. If Nadal falls out of the top 4, and since the French Open is sticking strictly to the men's rankings in their seeding, there could be a Nadal-Federer quarterfinal at Rolland Garros. That's if Soderling doesn't get to Nadal first.

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ATP Rankings: Djokovic, Young move up; Nadal Slides Down

The rankings published by the ATP after the Australian Open 2010 show several players reaching some ranking milestones. Serb Novak Djokovic becomes the first player from their country to be ranked as high as #2. Marin Cilic, a Grand Slam semifinalist for the first time in Melbourne, was awarded his first top 10 ranking, while American David Young made the biggest jump in the men's top 200 by moving 44 spots to #151. Former #1 Rafael Nadal slides down to #4, his lowest ranking since June 2005 after falling in the Australian Open quarterfinals. He was not able to defend hundreds of ranking points from winning the Australian Open last year.

Here are a list of ranking movers in the February 01, 2010 rankings:

#2. Novak Djokovic - highest career ranking

#4. Rafael Nadal - lowest ranking since June 2005

#10. Marin Cilic - up 4 spots for first top 10 ranking

#12. Fernando Verdasco - down 3 spots and falls out of the top 10

#25. John Isner - highest career ranking

#39. Feliciano Lopez - makes biggest jump of 7 spots within the top 50

#54. James Blake - slides 9 spots down out of the top 50

#61. Lukasz Kubot - makes biggest jump of 25 spots within the top 100

#85. Maximo Gonzales - goes down 20 spots, the biggest slide in the top 100

#151. Donald Young - makes biggest jump of 44 spots within the top 200

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ATP Men's Tennis Career Prize Money Leaders - 02/01/2010

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February 01, 2010.

The men's finalist in the Australian Open 2010 singles broke career earnings milestones as the ATP World Tour website revealed the ATP Prize Money career leaders. World #1 and Australian Open champion Roger Federer pushed his record beyond $55 million dollars earned in his career, while the losing finalist, Andy Murray, has now earned more than $10 million dollars. Other active players in the top 20 career prize money leaders include Rafael Nadal (#4), Lleyton Hewitt (#11), Andy Roddick (#12), Novak Djokovic (#13), Nikolay Davydenko (#18), Carlos Moya (#19), and Juan Carlos Ferrero (#20). The earnings represent combined singles and doubles prize money earned by a player through February 1, 2010.


1 Federer, Roger              $55,350,788
2 Sampras, Pete               $43,280,489
3 Agassi, Andre               $31,152,975
4 Nadal, Rafael               $27,508,603
5 Becker, Boris               $25,080,956
6 Kafelnikov, Yevgeny         $23,883,797
7 Lendl, Ivan                 $21,262,417
8 Edberg, Stefan              $20,630,941
9 Ivanisevic, Goran           $19,876,579
10 Chang, Michael             $19,145,632
11 Hewitt, Lleyton            $18,405,029
12 Roddick, Andy              $17,360,194
13 Djokovic, Novak            $16,168,498
14 Kuerten, Gustavo           $14,807,000
15 Bjorkman, Jonas            $14,600,323
16 Safin, Marat               $14,373,291
17 Courier, Jim               $14,034,132
18 Davydenko, Nikolay         $13,609,749
19 Moya, Carlos               $13,406,436
20 Ferrero, Juan Carlos       $12,613,027
21 Stich, Michael             $12,595,128
22 McEnroe, John              $12,552,132
23 Muster, Thomas             $12,225,910
24 Henman, Tim                $11,635,542
25 Bruguera, Sergi            $11,632,199
26 Rafter, Patrick            $11,127,058
27 Murray, Andy               $10,888,593
28 Enqvist, Thomas            $10,461,641
29 Korda, Petr                $10,448,900
30 Corretja, Alex             $10,411,354
31 Woodbridge, Todd           $10,095,245
32 Krajicek, Richard          $10,077,425
33 Santoro, Fabrice           $10,021,132
34 Ferreira, Wayne            $9,969,617
35 Haas, Tommy                $9,958,025
36 Nalbandian, David          $9,794,060
37 Rios, Marcelo              $9,713,771
38 Rusedski, Greg             $8,944,841
39 Connors, Jimmy             $8,641,040
40 Woodforde, Mark            $8,571,605

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