Women's World Cup Tennis 2010 - Top 16 Countries

This fantasy event will be based on the rankings during the second week of November, or the week after the year-end championships.  The Top 16 countries with the most number of players in the year-end Top 100 will qualify.  In case there is a tie for the sixteenth slot, the country with the higher ranked player will get the slot.  So here are the four groups based on those rankings -

GROUP A

RUSSIA
 Vera Zvonareva
 Elena Dementieva
 Nadia Petrova

SERBIA
 Jelena Jankovic
 Ana Ivanovic
 Bojana Jovanovski

FRANCE
 Marion Bartoli
 Aravane Rezai
 Alize Cornet

ROMANIA
 Alexandra Dulgheru
 Edina Gallovits
 Simona Halep

Group B

BELGIUM
 Kim Clijsters
 Justine Henin
 Yanina Wickmayer

CZECH REPUBLIC
 Lucie Safarova
 Petra Kvitova
 Klara Zakopalova

GERMANY
 Andrea Petkovic
 Julia Goerges
 Angelique Kerber

BELARUS
 Victoria Azarenka
 Olga Govortsova
 Anastasiya Yakimova

Group C

USA
 Serena Williams
 Venus Williams
 Bethanie Mattek-Sands

CHINA
 Li Na
 Zheng Jie
 Peng Shuai

SPAIN
 Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez
 Carla Suarez Navarro
 Arantxa Parra Santonja

SWITZERLAND
 Patty Schnyder
 Timea Bacszinsky
 Stefanie Voegele

Group D

ITALY
 Francesca Schiavone
 Flavia Pennetta
 Roberta Vinci

AUSTRALIA
 Samantha Stosur
 Jarmila Groth
 Anastasia Rodionova

SLOVAKIA
Daniela Hantuchova
Dominika Cibulkova
Magdalena Rybarikova

AUSTRIA
 Sybille Bammer
 Tamira Paszek
 Yvonne Meusberger

*  Seeding Procedure - The WTA Rankings based on November 18 was used.  The top 3 players from each country was chosen and their rankings were added.  The top 16 sums were chosen to form the 16 nation teams invited to participate. 

*  As for the grouping, it was numerical from A, B, C, D and back to A, again on the fifth ranked team and so on and so forth.