New Tennis Ranking Released

KARACHI: Newly crowned Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka is WTA number one player as Caroline Wozniacki falls down to number 4. Australian Open runners up Maria Sharapova of Russia rises to number 3 while Petra Kvitova retained her second position.

In men's ranking, Novak Djokovic continues to be number one ATP player after winning the first grand slam of the year on sunday. Below is the detail of top 10 men and women tennis players.

- ATP World Tour rankings on Monday (previous ranking in brackets):

1. (1) Novak Djokovic (Serbia) 13630 points
2. (2) Rafa Nadal (Spain) 10435
3. (3) Roger Federer (Switzerland) 8010
4. (4) Andy Murray (Britain) 6900
5. (5) David Ferrer (Spain) 4565
6. (6) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (France) 4425
7. (7) Tomas Berdych (Czech Republic) 3700
8. (8) Mardy Fish (U.S.) 2965
9. (9) Janko Tipsarevic (Serbia) 2700
10.(11) Juan Martin Del Potro (Argentina) 2630

WTA rankings released on Monday (previous ranking in brackets):

1. (3) Victoria Azarenka (Belarus) 8585 points
2. (2) Petra Kvitova (Czech Republic) 7690
3. (4) Maria Sharapova (Russia) 7560
4. (1) Caroline Wozniacki (Denmark) 7085
5. (5) Samantha Stosur (Australia) 5430
6. (8) Agnieszka Radwanska (Poland) 5330
7. (9) Marion Bartoli (France) 4770
8. (7) Vera Zvonareva (Russia) 4695
9. (6) Li Na (China) 4450
10.(10) Andrea Petkovic (Germany) 4000