Sania Mirza has climbed back into the top 50 in the WTA rankings and is now standing at 48. The Indian tennis sensation had an ordinary Australian Open losing in the second round to Japan’s Aiko Nakamura in straigts sets. Mirza, India’s top ranked female tennis player, lost 3-6 2-6 in a defeat very similar to last year’s Australian Open.

Sania Mirza climbed up 3 places due to a drop in the rankings of Shenay Perry, Venus Williams and Elena Vesnina. The next Indian in the WTA rankings is Shikha Uberoi, who is currently ranked 228th in the world.

Sania Mirza’s Australian Open has come to an ubrupt end after she lost out in the women’s doubles and mixed double draw too.

After losing in the second round in the women’s singles draw, she was beaten in the third round in the women’s doubles event and also lost in the first round of mixed doubles event.

Sania Mirza had teamed up with Anabel Medina Garrigues from Spain and were seeded 10th in the Grandslam. They were beaten in the 3rd round by pair of  Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia and Ai Sugiyama of Japan.

In mixed doubles she partnered with Fabrice Santoro and her performance was even worse as she lost in the opening round itself to the Seed 2 partnership of Mark Knowles and Rennae Stubbs.