India's number one women tennis player Sania Mirza has been seeded 31 in the first Grand Slam of the year -- the Australian Open -- beginning on January 14 in Melbourne.
Latvian Jelena Ostapenko believes she is getting better with every round and hopes to showcase the best of her abilities against five-time champion Venus Williams in the Wimbledon quarter-finals later on Tuesday.
French Open champion Stanislas Wawrinka has moved up five places to number four in the official ATP world rankings released on Monday.
Sania Mirza's challenge in the WTA Dubai Open ended on Thursday when she, along with her Italian partner Mara Santangelo, were beaten by the American-Zimbabwean combine of Liezel Huber and Cara Black in the second round.
Local favourite Amelie Mauresmo confirmed her return to form when she beat Russian third seed Elena Dementieva 7-6, 2-6, 6-4 to clinch her third Paris Open title on Sunday.
Former world number one Maria Sharapova has pulled out of next week's Paris Open after failing to fully recover from a shoulder injury, organisers said on Wednesday.
Sofia Kenin shed a few tears and needed to find a way to keep her emotions in check during an epic final against Garbine Muguruza, but soon after lifting her first Grand Slam title the American had to rush to calm someone else down - her mother. Kenin's mother gets so nervous that she finds it hard to watch her daughter play.
Yuki Bhambri broke back into the top-200 after 15 months, thanks to a solid performance at the ATP Taipei Challenger, where he made the semi-finals to leap to number 186 in the latest rankings.
Ana Ivanovic will become the first player representing Serbia to be ranked world number one when the new WTA rankings are released on Monday. The 20-year-old Serb dislodged Russia's Maria Sharapova from the top when she defeated compatriot Jelena Jankovic to reach the final of the French Open on Thursday.
World number one Jelena Jankovic survived a scare before reaching the Kremlin Cup quarter-finals with a 6-7, 6-3, 6-2 win over Vera Dushevina on Thursday. The Serb, who replaced Serena Williams at the top of the WTA rankings on Monday, was in danger of becoming the third high-profile player to bow out of the $2.3 million tournament.
The Indian ace gained three spots to rise to 29th position in the latest rankings overtaking China's Na Li, who dropped to 32nd.
Sania Mirza dropped 10 places to 60 while Somdev Devvarman rose to 320 in the rankings list released on Monday.
Ana Ivanovic was stunned 6-2, 1-6, 6-2 by 17-year-old Austrian Tamira Paszek in the third round of the Montreal Cup on Thursday.
Former world number one Lindsay Davenport has pulled out of the French Open starting on Sunday because of personal reasons, organisers said on Tuesday. The 31-year-old American, who returned to the court last September after an 11-month absence to have a baby, lies 26th in the WTA rankings.
India's Sania Mirza continues to top the women's double chart while her partner Martina Hingis of Switzerland maintained her second spot in the latest tennis WTA rankings issued on Monday. Sania is atop the list with 11395 points while Hingis has 11355 points in her kitty. Sania and Martina, the world number one women's doubles team, have stitched a 26-match winning streak together, which has brought them six titles in a row at the US Open, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Beijing, WTA Finals and Brisbane. It is the longest winning streak since Italians Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci's 25 in a row in 2012.
The Indian tennis ace, however, maintained her doubles ranking at 23.
Swiss champion Patty Schnyder has confirmed her participation in the Bangalore Open this year.
The Hyderabadi girl also gained two spots to 38 in the latest doubles' rankings.
The Indian had made the first round exit at the Tier I tournament at Key Biscayne in Miami last week.
The Belgian beat Russia's Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-4, 6-2 to win the Qatar Open and complete a Gulf double.
The 23-year-old, who this week became the first Australian woman to reach the top of the rankings since 1976, must survive a rough-looking path if she is to claim back-to-back Grand Slams having won her first at this month's French Open.
The men's doubles ace said he hopes to team with the Hyderabadi lass and win a cople of Grand Slams.
The 20-year-old Indian ace, however, slid in the doubles chart, dropping four places to 41st.
Leander Paes, who teamed with Martin Damm for his seventh Grand Slam triumph on Saturday, moved into the top 10 of the doubles rankings.
Nursing a knee injury for more than a month, Sania Mirza dropped two places to 48th in the latest WTA rankings issued on Monday.
'She wants to come back in 2018 and defend her title and she's in training now'
The fourth seed from Uzbekistan won the doubles crown and shocked No 2 seed Yan-Chong Chen of China to enter the final in the University of Mumbai ITF tournament.
Shiho Hisamatsu of Japan led the charge of the seeds as three Indians crashed out in the University of Mumbai ITF women's tennis tournament.
Ankita and Sanaa, made premature exits from the main draw in the University of Mumbai ITF Women's US $25,000 Tennis Tournament at the Kalina Campus, in Mumbai, on Monday
Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi held on to their 12th and 21st position respectively.
A quarter-final exit at the Bangalore Open notwithstanding, Sania Mirza rose one spot to 45th.
Sloane Stephens watched January's Australian Open from her couch, a large cast on her left foot rendering her immobile and raising questions in her mind about her ability to bounce back from the injury.
The Indian has dropped 10 places to 54 in the latest WTA rankings.
Coming into the tournament 21st in the WTA rankings, the Czech won 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 in two hours and 16 minutes to add to her triumph in St Petersburg earlier this month.
The Indian teenager jumped three places to 38th in the latest WTA rankings on Monday.\n
Sania Mirza slipped to 41 in WTA rankings after a first round exit at the French Open
Her doubles partner, Bethanie-Mattek Sands now wears the 'Miss World No.1 crown'
Caroline Garcia was knocked out of the French Open fourth round by Angelique Kerber on Monday, but the local favourite is confident that she has what it takes to become the first French Grand Slam champion since 2013.
Sania slipped four places to 46th, while a hat-trick of ITF Futures titles saw Prakash Amritraj jump 66 places to 498th.
Nadia Petrova pulled off a stunning 6-3, 7-5 victory over the world number two and top seed.
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