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Tennis-Women's world rankings

May 18 - Women's tennis world rankings on Monday
(previous week's rankings in brackets):

1. (1) Dinara Safina (Russia) 9801 points

2. (2) Serena Williams (U.S.) 7838

3. (3) Venus Williams (U.S.) 7237

4. (5) Elena Dementieva (Russia) 6931

5. (4) Jelena Jankovic (Serbia) 6720

6. (6) Vera Zvonareva (Russia) 5640

7. (7) Svetlana Kuznetsova (Russia) 5091

8. (8) Ana Ivanovic (Serbia) 4892

9. (9) Victoria Azarenka (Belarus) 4526

10. (11) Caroline Wozniacki (Denmark) 4370

11. (10) Nadia Petrova (Russia) 3840

12. (12) Agnieszka Radwanska (Poland) 3571

13. (13) Marion Bartoli (France) 3189

14. (14) Flavia Pennetta (Italy) 3135

15. (16) Zheng Jie (China) 2687

16. (21) Amelie Mauresmo (France) 2664

17. (20) Patty Schnyder (Switzerland) 2607

18. (17) Anabel Medina Garrigues (Spain) 2440

19. (19) Kaia Kanepi (Estonia) 2355

20. (18) Dominika Cibulkova (Slovakia) 2345

(Editing by Tom Pilcher)