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Saturday, 18 June 2011

Federation	Average rating of top-10 men	Average rating of top-10 women	Gap
1. Russia	2734	2479	255
2. Ukraine	2696	2420	276
3. China	2659	2459	200
4. Armenia	2654	2235	419
5. France	2652	2334	318
6. India	2645	2403	242
7. Hungary	2644	2413	231
8. Israel	2640	2246	394
9. USA	2639	2351	288
10. Azerbaijan	2639	2206	433
11. Germany	2639	2344	295
12. Netherlands	2630	2268	362
13. Poland	2625	2349	276
14. Bulgaria	2623	2306	317
15. Georgia	2611	2452	159
16. England	2610	2237	373
17. Spain	2598	2257	341
18. Serbia	2595	2304	291
19. Cuba	2595	2279	316
20. Croatia	2595	2211	384
21. Czech Republic	2581	2260	321
22. Belarus	2574	2192	382
23. Romania	2573	2304	269
24. Sweden	2568	2149	419
25. Argentina	2565	2180	385
26. Greece	2555	2241	314
27. Slovenia	2550	2239	311
28. Brazil	2548	2040	508
29. Philippines	2543	2037	506
30. Kazakhstan	2539	2188	351
31. Uzbekistan	2537	2149	388
32. Norway	2536	2076	460
33. Denmark	2530	2097	433
34. Italy	2527	2127	400
35. Vietnam	2517	2271	246
36. Switzerland	2511	2139	372
37. Iceland	2509	1876	633
38. Slovakia	2505	2276	229
39. Bosnia & Herzegovina	2499	2051	448
40. Canada	2497	2024	473
41. Austria	2493	2124	369
42. Turkey	2490	2105	385
43. Lithuania	2483	2187	296
44. Moldova	2480	2093	387
In other federations the rating of top-10 players is lower than of Russian women’s top-10