Sania Mirza, away from competitive tennis for around two months now, slipped two rungs and is placed 34th in the latest WTA rankings.

The Indian ace was pushed down by Russia's Anna Chakvetadze and Spain's Anabel Medina Garriques, who occupy the 32nd and 33rd places respectively.

The Hyderabadi lass, who was recuperating from a lower back injury during her season break after the second round of the Thailand Open WTA event at Bangkok in October, returned to the courts on Sunday to play a celebrity mixed doubles match alongside tennis ace Mahesh Bhupathi against 1996 Wimbledon champion Richard Krajicek and his sister Michaela.

She will leave for Australia later this week to train under elite coach Tony Roche.