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(born
June 17, 1980) is a former World No. 1 American tennis player who, as
of May 11, 2009, is ranked World No. 3. She has won the Wimbledon
singles title the last two years and is the reigning Wimbledon and
Australian Open doubles champion. She is the older sister of Serena
Williams.
Prize Money (US$) : 22,842,277 |
| Serena Jameka Williams (born September 26, 1981) is an American professional tennis player. She has been ranked World No. 1 by the Women's Tennis Association on four separate occasions; as of April 20, 2009, she was ranked World No. 2. She is the reigning US Open and Australian Open singles champion and has won 20 Grand Slam titles: 10 in singles, 8 in doubles, and 2 in mixed doubles. She has won two Olympic gold medals in women's doubles. She is the most recent player, male or female, to hold all four Grand Slam singles titles simultaneously. She is also the only active female player to have won all four Grand Slam tournaments during her career (one French Open, two Wimbledon, four Australian and three US Opens). She also has won more Grand Slams than any active player. Additionally, Williams has won more career prize money than any other female athlete in history. In 2005, Tennis Magazine ranked her as the 17th-best player in 40 years.  Prize Money (US$) : 24,205,248 |
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( born April 27, 1986 in Moscow), is a Russian professional tennis player. She has been the runner-up in three Grand Slam singles tournaments and won the women's doubles title at the 2007 US Open with Nathalie Dechy. She also won the Olympic silver medal in women's singles at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Her most recent achievement is runner-up in the 2009 French Open. She is the younger sister of former World No. 1 men's player Marat Safin. She and her brother are the first brother-sister tandem in tennis history to both achieve a #1 ranking. As of April 27, 2009, she is ranked World No. 1 by the Women's Tennis Association.
Prize Money (US$) : $6,290,269 |
| Jelena
Janković ( born February 28, 1985) is a Serbianprofessional tennis player. She was ranked World No. 1 for seventeen consecutive weeks until she was overtaken by Serena Williams on February 2, 2009. She was the year-end World No. 1 in 2008, the first player in the history of the WTA tour to do this without winning a Grand Slam title. As of June 8, 2009, she is ranked World No. 6.  Prize Money (US$) : 7,000,000 |
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( born November 6, 1987, in Belgrade, Serbia, then Yugoslavia) is a former World No. 1 Serbian tennis player. As of June 8, 2009, she is ranked World No. 13 by the Women's Tennis Association. She won the 2008 French Open and was the runner-up in singles at the 2007 French Open and the 2008 Australian Open.
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| Elena
Viatcheslavovna Dementieva (; born 15 October 1982) is a Russian professional tennis player, who has won two Olympic medals in singles, including the gold medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Her performances at the Olympics is the strongest of any competitors in recent times, with an 11–2 record. She has also reached the finals of two Grand Slam events. As of 18 May 2009, she is ranked World No. 4.  Prize Money (US$) : 10,000,000 |
| Svetlana Aleksandrovna Kuznetsova
( born June 27, 1985 in St. Petersburg (then Leningrad) is a Russian professional tennis player who is currently ranked World No. 5. She won the 2004 US Open and 2009 French Open singles titles and was the runner-up in singles at the 2006 French Open and the 2007 US Open.  Prize Money (US$) : 12,383,968 |
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( born September 7, 1984, Moscow, Russia) is a professional tennis player from Russia. She was introduced to tennis at the age of six and turned professional in 2000. As of June 8, 2009, she is ranked World No. 7. Zvonareva has won eight WTA Tour singles titles, four WTA Tour doubles titles and two ITF Women's Circuit singles titles. In her first few years on the professional tour, she became known for her fragile psyche, often breaking down in tears during matches.[1] Critics cited her unstable emotions as a reason why her results may have fallen short of her expectations.[citation needed] Her first Grand Slam singles quarterfinal came at the 2003 French Open after defeating Venus Williams in the fourth round. Of her nine singles titles, two have been at the Cellular South Cup in Memphis, Tennessee.  Prize Money (US$) : 5,000,000 |
| Victoria
Fiodorovna Azarenka ( born 31 July 1989) is a Belarusian professional tennis player who, as of 8 June 2009, is ranked World No. 8. Azarenka has won two mixed doubles Grand Slam titles — 2007 US Open with Max Mirnyi and 2008 French Open with Bob Bryan. She has also won three singles titles, all in 2009.  Prize Money (US$) : 1,500,000 |
| Caroline
Wozniacki (born July 11, 1990, Odense) is a Danish tennis player. She achieved her career-high singles ranking of World No. 9 on June 8, 2009. She is the only Danish woman currently in the Top 300 on the WTA Tour.  Prize Money (US$) : 1,500,000 |
| Nadezhda
Viktorovna Petrova ( born June 8, 1982) is a Russian professional tennis player. Her highest ranking is No. 3, which she achieved in May 2006 after defeating Justine Henin in the final of the Qatar Telecom German Open in Berlin. She has also reached the French Open semifinals twice, once in 2003 and again in 2005. As of April 6, 2009, she is ranked World No. 10.  Prize Money (US$) :7,000,000 |
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(born 6 March 1989 in Kraków, full name Agnieszka Roma Radwańska) is a WTA Tour top 10 Polish tennis player. She defeated Tamira Paszek of Austria to win the 2005 Girls' Singles Championship at Wimbledon. As a professional, her highest career singles ranking is World No. 9, achieved on 4 August 2008. As of June 8, 2009, she is ranked World No. 11. In 2007, Radwańska became the first Polish player in history to claim a Sony Ericsson WTA Tour singles title when she won the Nordea Nordic Light Open. In 2008, she won three more singles titles: the Pattaya Women's Open, the Istanbul Cup, and the International Women's Open.  Prize Money (US$) : 1,000,000 |
Maria Sharapova Prize Money (US$) :$12,383,566 |
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