Sania moves up six places to 38th

NEW DELHI, July 10: India’s Sania Mirza moved up six places in the women’s world rankings list to the 38th spot despite her second round exit from Wimbledon, according to a Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) released on Monday. Sania, who lost to Russian Nadia Petrova in the women’s singles event, is also ranked 38th in the doubles. Among the other Indian women, Sunitha Rao moved up a spot to 264th while Shikha Uberoi went down 39 places to languish at 326th. In the men’s section, Indian ace Leander Paes moved up one place to ninth in the doubles rankings while his Czech partner Martin Damm also moved up a spot to eighth. Mahesh Bhupathi, however, was down one place to 21st.