Despite Wimbledon second round loss Sania moves to 38th in WTA ranking

July 10: Despite Wimbledon’s second round loss, Indian tennis diva Sania Mirza moves to the 38 th place of WTA ranking. She jumped to six places with 598 points in the latest WTA singles ranking.

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Though, she had started with a comfortable over Russian Yaroslava Shvedova but loss to 11th seed Nadia Petrova with a straight set in Wimbledon. Earlier while entering Wimbledon contest she was ranked in the 44 th place.

However, she along with her doubles partner Shahar Peer moves to the third round of Wimbledon and as a result her doubles ranking has also improved to 38. Israel’s Shahar Peer has dropped to two places and presently ranked at number 18 th.

The Russian Nadia Petrova from whom Sania lost in the second round has move to the 9 th place and Marion Bartoli, the finalist of 2007 Wimbledon has moved up to 8 places and ranked 11 th.

Among other Indians, Sikha Oberoi ranked in 326 th and Sunitha Rao to 264 th place. Among other Indian, Leander Paes has ranked 9 th in the doubles while Mahesh Bhupati dropped one place to 21 st.

2007 Wimbledon women champion Venus Williams who was in the 31 st place as per the previous ranking has moved to the 17 th place. Justine Henin and Maria Sharapova despite not so impressive performance in the Wimbledon remain in the 1 st and 2 nd place respectively.

In the latest ATP ranking the men’s Wimbledon finalists Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal retain their respective number No.1 and No.2 place. Semifinalists Novak Djokovic who showed some excellent match in the Wimbledon by defeating Australian and one time champion Hewitt has improve to two places and currently at No.3 while Andy Roddick slipped to one place and ranked at No.4.