Indian tennis starlet Sania Mirza blasted her way into the second round at Wimbledon on Tuesday, easing past Russia’s Yaroslava Shvedova in straight sets.

Mirza, 20, wasted no time on Court 6 as she demolished the 19-year-old Muscovite 6-0, 6-3 in 55 minutes.

However, Mirza was frustrated by her opponent at 5-2 up in the final set, being pegged at deuce before world number 80 Shvedova finally won the game.

And she lost two match points in the final game before finally sealing it as the Russian misfired.

Mirza, who signed autographs for the Indian fans in the crowd as she left, now faces Russian 11th seed Nadia Petrova in the second round.

World number 44 Mirza’s best Wimbledon performance was reaching the second round in 2005, while her best Grand Slam outing was at the US Open in the same year, when she reached the fourth round.

Star Indian tennis player Sania Mirza will start her Wimbledon campaign on a high after she climbed two spots in the WTA singles rankings to No. 44.

Sania, in fact, also improved her individual doubles rankings by two positions to No. 40.

The 20-year-old, though, has had a poor run in the singles circuit since her comeback from an injury lay-off. After losing in the second round of the French Open, she crashed out of the Ordina Open in the first round.

Sania takes on 80th ranked Russian Yaroslava Shvedova in her first round encounter at the All England Club. Shvedova, however, holds an edge over the Indian after having beaten her in their only previous encounter at the WTA Bangalore Open last year.

In the women’s doubles, Sania opens her campaign with Israel’s Shahar Peer, while she teams up with compatriot Mahesh Bhupathi in the mixed doubles event.

India’s doubles ace Leander Paes, however, dropped one spot in the individual rankings to No. 9, while Bhupathi, Paes’s former partner, remained a non-mover on No. 20.

Paes will only take part in the doubles edition of the Wimbledon with Czech partner Martin Damm, while Bhupathi will take the doubles court with another Czech, Radek Stepanek.

Her maiden singles win at the French Open has seen Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza rise seven places to 42 in the latest WTA rankings released today. Sania, who was 50th last week, has 546 points. The 20-year-old has, however, slid in the doubles chart, dropping four places to 41st.

The Indian ace will next be seen in action at this week’s $200,000 DFS Classic in Birmingham, where she will take on Maria Elena Camerin of Italy in the first round.

The Hyderabadi player beat Italin Andria Brianti to record her maiden win at the claycourt Grand Slam before crashing out with a straight set loss to seventh seed Ana Ivanovic of Serbia, the losing finallist.

In the ATP charts, Leander Paes second-round loss at the French Open has pushed him down by four places to 10th this week. However, Mahesh Bhupathi improved his standing by six rungs to 20th following his semi-final appearance at Roland Garros. Paes and his Czech partner Martin Damm were seeded third in the event but were dumped out by an unseeded German duo. Bhupathi, meanwhile, had teamed up with Czech Radek Stepnak for the tournament and the duo made it to the last-four stage.