March 7th Rankings - Women

Just one change, as Francesca Schiavone falls one spot to 10th, with retired Elena Dementieva moving past her.

Winners:

Kuala Lumpur
Jelena Dokic AUS (57)
1st round #1 Francesca Schiavone ITA (10) | 2-6 7-6(1) 6-4
2nd round Kurumi Nara JPN (120) | 3-6 7-6(6) 6-2
Quarters #8 Bojana Jovanovski SRB (59) | 7-6(4) 6-2
Semis Michaella Krajicek NED (114) | 6-2 6-3
Final #5 Lucie Safarova CZE (37) | 2-6 7-6(9) 6-4
Average Opponent Rank 68.0

Monterrey
#2 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS (19)
1st round Eleni Daniilidou GRE (144) | 6-2 6-7(5) 6-4
2nd round Melanie Oudin USA (81) | 6-2 7-6(6)
Quarters Greta Arn HUN (58) | 6-2 7-6(3)
Semis Gisela Dulko ARG (48)| 6-4 6-1
Final #1 Jelena Jankovic SRB (16) | 2-6 6-2 6-3
Average Opponent Rank 18.7

Jelena Dokic won her first WTA tournament in almost a full decade in KL, a real boost to her recent rejuvanation, after several dark years in her career. She was fortunate to get a couple of players outside the top 100, but also got a good win over Schiavone in round 1, and had to survive match points against in the tiebreaker against Safarova.

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova won the other event, in Monterrey, putting together some nice wins int he first few rounds, before taking out Jelena Jankovic in the final.


ITF events:

25K
Hammond: #5 Madison Brengle USA (172) d. #3 Stephanie Foretz Gacon FRA (147)
Sydney: Yurika Sema JPN (406) d. #7 Rika Fujiwara JPN (371)

10K
Antalya: Cristina Dinu ROU (237)
Lyon: Anna-Guilia Remondina ITA (284)


Riser of the Week (top 100):
Jelena Dokic AUS (57), Up 20
Dokic, who started the year right at the edge of the top 100, has made a solid push up towards the top 50 after winning that title in Malaysia.

Riser of the Week (other):
Cristina Dinu ROU (237), Up 46
This 18-year-old Romanian won an ITF level title in Turkey, getting wins over Oxana Lyubtsova (264), and Diana Enache (334), moving her into the top 250.

Dropper of the Week (top 100):
Dinara Safina RUS (65), Down 6
Frankly, given how poor Safina has been recently, having not won back-to-back matches since September, I was surprised she was actually this high to begin with. She did manage to win her first match of 2011, beating Xinyun Han (133), but her second round loss gave her a modest drop.

Dropper of the Week (other):
Yi-Fan Xu CHN (322), Down 54
This time last year, Xu made the semifinals of an ITF event in Louisiana, beating Anastasia Yakimova (142) and Stephanie Foretz Gacon (147). This year, she tried her hand at qualifying for Kuala Lumpur, but lost in the first round to Galina Voskoboeva (n/a).


1 (1). Kim Clijsters BEL - 846.5
Last week: None

2 (2). Caroline Wozniacki DEN - 817.7
Last week: None

3 (5). Vera Zvonareva RUS - 812.5
Last week: Doha W

4 (4). Justine Henin BEL - 811.3
Last week: None

5 (5). Venus Williams USA - 809.5
Last week: None

6 (6). Samantha Stosur AUS - 795.0
Last week: None

7 (7). Flavia Pennetta ITA - 784.4
Last week: None

8 (8). Na Li CHN - 782.8
Last week: None

9 (10). Elena Dementieva RUS - 782.0
Last week: None

10 (9). Francesca Schiavone ITA - 780.5
Last week: Kuala Lumpur R32 (l. Dokic)

11 (11). Maria Sharapova RUS - 780.2
Last week: None

12 (13). Kaia Kanepi EST - 779.8
Last week: None

13 (12). Shahar Peer ISR - 779.7
Last week: None

14 (14). Petra Kvitova CZE - 778.3
Last week: None

15 (15). Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS - 777.4
Last week: None

16 (18). Jelena Jankovic SRB - 777.4
Last week: Monterrey W

17 (16). Agnieszka Radwanska POL - 777.2
Last week: None

18 (17). Victoria Azarenka BLR - 775.4
Last week: None

19 (19). Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS - 771.2
Last week: Monterrey W

20 (20). Shuai Peng CHN - 770.5
Last week: None

21 (22). Andrea Petkovic GER - 768.5
Last week: None

22 (21). Ana Ivanovic SRB - 768.4
Last week: None

23 (23). Yanina Wickmayer BEL - 766.7
Last week: None

24 (24). Nadia Petrova RUS - 766.3
Last week: None

25 (25). Marion Bartoli FRA - 758.1
Last week: Kuala Lumpur QF (l. Safarova)

In: None
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