August 5th, 2009 
harikumar Five of the Top 10, including world No.1 Dinara Safina and the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour’s two fastest-rising young stars headline the $700,000 LA Women’s Tennis Championships presented by Herbalife – the second staging post in the Olympus US Open Series – this week.
The 56-player draw affords first-round byes to the Top 8 seeds, of which Safina is naturally No.1. The 23-year-old Russian arrives straight from Portoroz in Slovenia where she won her third title of the year with a marathon three-hour victory over Sara Errani, and as the defending champion in Los Angeles, this is where her summer defense of the top ranking gets serious.
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