US OPEN 2010: ELITE WOMEN'S TEAM COUNTRY AWARD

Every Grand Slam, I give an award to the country that has the most number of players in the 4th round.  I call that award, the Elite Women's Team Country Award. If two or more countries have the same number of players, I just add up the latest rankings of their representative players and the country with the lowest sum, wins the award!

The following countries have representatives in the 4th round -

Australia - 1
Belgium - 2
Denmark - 1
Estonia - 1
Germany - 1
Israel - 1
Italy - 1
Serbia - 1
Slovakia - 1
USA - 1

Now, the country that gets the US Open 2010 Elite Women's Team Country Award is RUSSIA!

They put five (5) of their players into the 4th round.  That's quite an impressive number!  The five women players who made it are - Vera Zvonareva (#8), Elena Dementieva (#12), Svetlana Kuznetsova (#13), Maria Sharapova (#17), and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (#22).