New Delhi: Indian Davis Cupper Rohan Bopanna dropped out of the top-10 in the ATP doubles ranking chart on Tuesday, following his US Open semi-final defeat along with Pakistani partner Aisam-ul-haq Qureshi.
Bopanna and Qureshi had made the summit clash last year but their journey ended in the semi-finals this year as they lost to eventual runners-up Marcin Matkowski and Maruisz Fyrstenberg of Poland.
Bopanna lost five places to be at 14, just ahead of Qureshi.
As a team also Bopanna and Qureshi slid, as they lost a place to seven.
However, there was no change in the rankings of veteran players Mahesh Bhupathi (6) and Leander Paes (8).
In the teams ranking, Paes and Bhupathi were static at number four.
In the singles, Somdev Devvarman dropped a rung to 65. Devvarman exited the US Open in the first round after a loss to fourth-seeded Andy Murray.
Earlier on Monday, Sania Mirza broke into the doubles top-10 for the first time in her career as she gained a place after the US Open, where she made the third round along with Russian partner Elena Vesnina.
Sania has won three doubles titles in the current calender to take the overall number to 12 trophies. She triumphed at Indian Wells and Charleston with Vesnina and at College Park with Kazakhstan's Yaroslava Shvedova.
Bhupathi congratulated Sania for the achievement. "Welcome to the top 10 club. That's a big effort. Now stay there for a while please... :)," Bhupathi tweeted.
However, her first-round exit in the singles at the last Grand Slam of the year cost Sania dear as she slipped to 81 from 64.
Sania, who is likely to miss to the rest of the season due to a knee injury, and Vesnina are now placed fourth in the WTA race to year-end championship.
Only the top four pairs compete in the elite championship, and due to Sania's injury the Indo-Russian pair may end up losing a lot of points and hence miss out on qualifying.
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