<p>Somdev, who has been going through a poor patch, today lost in the first round of the ATP Shanghai Masters.<br /><br />In the doubles ATP chart, there was no change in the rankings of Mahesh Bhupathi (6) and Leander Paes (8) but Rohan Bopanna lost a place to be 16.<br /><br />In the teams' rankings, the Indian Express of Paes and Bhupathi was unchanged at number four and Bopanna-Aisam-ul-haq Qureshi on numbers seven.<br /><br />There was no change in the doubles ranking of Sania (11) but her team with Elena Vesnina is now standing at six in the WTA race to year-end championship.<br /><br />Since Sania will be out of action for a days because of a arthroscopic surgery, she and Elena may miss the cut for year-end championship.<br /><br />Only top four teams compete in the event and the points gap is increasing between Sania-Vesnina (4788 points) and other teams.<br /><br />Kazakhstan's Yaroslava Shvedova and America's Vania King are at number four with 5530 points while following them are Russian Maria Kirilenko and Belarus' Victoria Azarenka, who have 5490 points.</p>
<p>Somdev, who has been going through a poor patch, today lost in the first round of the ATP Shanghai Masters.<br /><br />In the doubles ATP chart, there was no change in the rankings of Mahesh Bhupathi (6) and Leander Paes (8) but Rohan Bopanna lost a place to be 16.<br /><br />In the teams' rankings, the Indian Express of Paes and Bhupathi was unchanged at number four and Bopanna-Aisam-ul-haq Qureshi on numbers seven.<br /><br />There was no change in the doubles ranking of Sania (11) but her team with Elena Vesnina is now standing at six in the WTA race to year-end championship.<br /><br />Since Sania will be out of action for a days because of a arthroscopic surgery, she and Elena may miss the cut for year-end championship.<br /><br />Only top four teams compete in the event and the points gap is increasing between Sania-Vesnina (4788 points) and other teams.<br /><br />Kazakhstan's Yaroslava Shvedova and America's Vania King are at number four with 5530 points while following them are Russian Maria Kirilenko and Belarus' Victoria Azarenka, who have 5490 points.</p>