Double jolt for Sania, slips one place each in singles and doubles rankings

New Delhi, Mon, 24 Sep 2007 NI Wire

Newstrack India

Sep 24: India’s tennis sensation Sania Mirza slipped one place down in both singles and doubles latest WTA rankings released today.

 

Sania has been able to maintain her 27 th position for the last three weeks but couldn’t hold further due to a fortnight long absence from the court.


The 20-year-old Hyderabadi girl who is out of action after losing to Russian Anna Chakvetadze in the third round of the US Open, has been nursing a wrist injury, which also forced her to miss the Sunfeast Open WTA event that concluded in Kolkata yesterday.


According to latest WTA rankings, Sania now stands at 28 th in singles and 19 th in doubles event. However, her compatriot Sunitha Rao is back in the top-200 bracket as she jumped 15 places up from 211 to 196. This could become possible only because, she managed to move in to the second round of the just concluded Sunfeast Open.


The newly crowned Sunfeast Open champion Maria Kirilenko of Russia is just one place behind Sania in the singles ranking. She climbed up six places to be placed at the 29 th spot by virtue of her victory in the Sunfeast Open yesterday.


WTA Rankings


As of 24 September, 2007




























































































































































































































No

Player

Nation

Points

+/−

1

Justine Henin

Belgium

5200

=

2

Svetlana Kuznetsova

  Russia

3609

=

3

Jelena Janković

  Serbia

3445

=

4

Maria Sharapova

  Russia

3235

=

5

Anna Chakvetadze

  Russia

2940

=

6

Ana Ivanović

  Serbia

2925

=

7

Serena Williams

  United States

2391

=

8

Nadia Petrova

  Russia

2266

=

9

Venus Williams

  United States

2215

=

10

Daniela Hantuchová

  Slovakia

2042

+1

11

Marion Bartoli

  France

1999

+1

12

Amélie Mauresmo

  France

1995

-2

13

Patty Schnyder

  Switzerland

1737

=

14

Nicole Vaidišová

  Czech Republic

1735

=

15

Elena Dementieva

  Russia

1707

=

16

Shahar Pe'er

  Israel

1678

=

17

Dinara Safina

  Russia

1674

=

18

Martina Hingis

  Switzerland

1588

=

19

Tatiana Golovin

  France

1528

=

20

Ágnes Szávay

  Hungary

1360

+3

21

Sybille Bammer

  Austria

1298

-1

22

Alona Bondarenko

  Ukraine

1221

-1

23

Lucie Šafářová

  Czech Republic

1128

-1

24

Katarina Srebotnik

  Slovenia

1104

=

25

Francesca Schiavone

  Italy

1017

=

26

Li Na

  China

968

=

27

Vera Zvonareva

  Russia

960

+2

28

Sania Mirza

  India

933

-1

29

Maria Kirilenko

  Russia

923

+6

30

Agnieszka Radwanska

  Poland

904.5

=


(Sources: www.wikipedia.org)



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1. What Rubbish ! Do you know anything about rankings? Players ranks go up and down all the time, every week even. So there is no jolt invoved here.She hasnt played due to injury so her ranking did not rise, as simple as that ! She will play and win again and it will go up, or she will lose and it will come down. Dont write about tennis if you dont understand it. Gopinath JVS
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