Hamburg - Dinara Safina topped the women's tennis rankings issued on Monday by the WTA ahead of the Williams sisters.

The Russian Safina has 9,601 points, with Wimbledon champion Serena Williams on 8,628 and Venus Williams, Sunday's losing finalist in Stanford to French player Marion Bartoli, on 6,935 points.

WTA top 10 as of August 3 (previous ranking in parenthesis): <# 1. (1) Dinara Safina, Russia, 9,601 2. (2) Serena Williams, United States, 8,628 3. (3) Venus Williams, United States, 6,935 4. (4) Elena Dementieva, Russia, 6,591 5. (6) Jelena Jankovic, Serbia, 5,930 6. (5) Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russia, 5,853 7. (7) Vera Zvonareva, Russia,
5,400 8. (9) Caroline Wozniacki, Denmark, 4,750 9. (8) Victoria Azarenka, Belarus, 4,538 10. (10) Nadia Petrova, Russia, 3,290 <# (dpa)