Hamburg  - Dinara Safina continues to be the top ranked player ahead of the Williams sisters Serena and Venus in the women's tennis rankings issued on Monday by the WTA.

Safina leads the standings with 9,810 points from Serena Williams, who is on 8,907 points, while Venus is third with 6,865 points.

The only upwards mover in the ranking was Caroline Wozniacki, who won her third Sony Ericsson WTA Tour title on Saturday when she beat Elena Vesnina at the Pilot Pen tournament in New Haven.

The Dane swopped places with Belarussian Victoria Azarenka.

WTA top 10 as of August 31 (previous ranking in parenthesis): <# 1. (1) Dinara Safina, Russia, 9,810 2. (2) Serena Williams, United States, 8,907 3. (3) Venus Williams, United States, 6,865 4. (4) Elena Dementieva, Russia, 6,835 5. (5) Jelena Jankovic, Serbia, 6,620 6. (6) Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russia, 5,960 7. (7) Vera Zvonareva, Russia, 5,300 8. (9) Caroline Wozniacki, Denmark, 4,730 9. (8) Victoria Azarenka, Belarus, 4,612 10. (10) Flavia Pennetta, Italy, 3490. (dpa)