Azarenka, Sharapova still 1-2 in rankings

Maria Sharapova broke her finals losing streak to Victoria Azarenka and pulled closer to reaching the women's tennis world No. 1 ranking for a fifth time. Sharapova beat the top-ranked Azarenka Sunday 6-1, 6-4 in winning the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Germany. That improved her 2012 record to 22-4. Two of the losses were to Azarenka, 29-2 this year, in the finals at the Australian Open and in Indian Wells, Calif. She also lost a pair of finals to Azarenka in the last two years. The win at the Australian Open put Azarenka into the No. 1 spot in the rankings, a position she's held for 15 weeks. Sharapova has been ranked No. 1 four times -- most recently in June 2008 -- for a total of 17 weeks. Azarenka has 9,020 ranking points, still well ahead of Sharapova's 8,280. No. 3 Petra Kvitova has 7,170 and fourth-ranked Agnieszka has 6,710. They were the other semifinalists in Germany. Samantha Stosur is fifth with a total of 5,825 points followed by Carolina Wozniacki (5,330), Marion Bartoli (5,020), Li Na (4-940), Serena Williams (4,300) and Vera Zvonareva (3,775). The other WTA tournament last week went to Kiki Bertens, a first-time champion. She goes from 149th to No. 92 in the rankings. There are no Top 10 players in the fields this week at either the Estoril Open in Portugal or Budapest Grand Prix in Hungary.