Sania climbs up in doubles ranking

New Delhi, Nov 12 (UNI) Sania Mirza moved up one place in the doubles ranking to the 18th position, while she clung on to the 32nd place for the fourth consecutive week in the singles chart of the latest WTA rankings issued today.

The 20-year-old Hyderabadi, who has been out of the circuit because of a stomach injury will be back in action in the Hopman Cup along with upcoming Rohan Bopanna.

Meanwhile, in the ATP rankings there were no significant movements as all the Indians managed to hold to their previous week positions.

In the previous week, Bopanna slipped one place to take the 261th spot, with Prakash Amritraj clung on to his 271th place.

Another Indian, Sunil Kumar Sipaeya, after his good performance in the 10,000 dollars ITF grass court event in Lahore, last week jumped a whooping 34 places to take the 561th spot.

In the doubles ATP rankings too, the movement was static with veteran Leander Paes holding on to his last week's four place jump to the 13th position and Mahesh Bhupathi also managing to retain his 21st spot.

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