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 | Serena Williams is № 1 for 201322-11-2013 |
Serena Williams was designated as the best players for the 2013 season, winning the prize of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for the fifth time in her career. The performance of the American this year really are amazing - 11 titles, 78 victories and the record 12,385,572 dollars in prize money.
Martina Hingis won more races on the WTA in 1997 (12) and Kim Clijsters more victories in 2003 (90). The previous record for earned dollars belonged to Victoria Azarenka and was placed last year (7,923,920). In February, Serena records her name as the oldest № 1 in the world in tennis history. She received the award of the WTA for the first time in 2002 and then in 2008, 2009 and 2012, With more prizes are only two tennis players - Steffi Graf (8) and Martina Navratilova (7).