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Good news, sport fans – your favorite athletes are posing nude on the cover and inside pages of ESPN Magazine`s `Body Issue,` including Serena Williams. Don`t worry, the issue will be safe for work, so you can enjoy the edition with your co-workers.

Williams is featured on one of six covers, and can be seen in the flesh, sitting, with her arms wrapped around her knees. The only article on her nude frame is a distinct diamond on her finger. The magazine, which hits newsstands on October 9, chose well selecting Williams as one of the covers, since she just reclaimed her number 1 ranking.

Williams only needed to win her second-round match at the China Open on Tuesday to reclaim the number 1 spot, because the current top-ranked player, Dinara Safina, couldn't get past that early round at the tournament. Safina lost to local wild card entry Zhang Shuai in the second round on Monday, which paved the way for Williams.

"It feels pretty good. I'm really excited, I guess. I don't want to put too much pressure on myself, but I'm obviously happy to be there because I feel like I've been working so hard all year and just happy to be back," Serena said.

Safina's loss made number 226 ranked Zhang the lowest-ranked woman to defeat a number 1 raking player. "I would like to take some break now. ... I'm very upset with myself," Safina lamented.

Williams has spent a total of 72 weeks ranked number 1. She said her focus for the rest of the year would be the WTA Tour Championships in Doha at the end of October: "This is a tough part of the year. It's kind of toward the end and everybody's bodies are starting to ache, you're really fighting and you just do your best."