Sania Ranked 44th

Sania Mirza’s ranking improved in both the singles and doubles WTA charts released today. Sania, who crashed out in the first round of last week’s Ordina Open, rose to 44th position in the singles list, while her doubles standing improved to 40th.

Sania was on the verge of breaking the top 30 as an 18-year-old after reaching the last 16 at the US Open but her recent progress has been hindered by a serious knee injury. She went nine weeks without hitting a ball after surgery and only returned to action at the French Open earlier this month, where she won her first-round match before coming up against eventual finalist Ana Ivanovic.

Mirza is keen to get back to Wimbledon, where she won the junior doubles title in 2003 and says the surface "suits my game". Sania opens her campaign at the All England Club against Russian Yaroslava Shvedova. The unfancied Russian had upset Sania at Bangalore Open and went on to take the crown but since then, Shvedova has done little and has struggled to maintain that standard. If Sania manages to cross the first hurdle, She will take on 11th Seeded Nadia Petrova, another Russian, in the second round.

French Open: Sania-Fabrice Duo In 2nd Round

After disappointments in singles and doubles, Sania Mirza bounced back along with Frenchman Fabrice Santoro and trounced American-Czech pair of Vania King(USA) and Frantisek Ceramak 6-2, 6-0 to advance to the pre-quarterfinals of the mixed doubles competition at the French Open at Rolland Garros.Sania and her partner Santoro hardly broke a sweat and won the first set after converting both the breakpoints that came thier way.

Sania-Fabrice now take on sixth seeded Serb-Slovenian combine of Nenad Zimonjic and Katarina Srebotnik who overpowered Canadian Daniel Nestor and Russian Elena Likhovtseva 6-2, 5-7, 10-7 in the first round.

On Thursday, Sania and her Czech partner Eva Birnerova lost to the top seeded pair of Lisa Raymond of the US and Australian Samantha Stosur in the first round of the women's doubles of the French Open tennis tournament. The Indo-Czech pair proved no match for the American-Australian duo and went down 6-1, 6-2 on Thursday. Earlier in the day, Sania also crashed out of the singles event as well after she lost 6-1, 6-4 in just 64 minutes to seventh seed Anna Ivanovic of Serbia.