Newly-crowned Australian Open [ Images ] mixed doubles champion Leander Paes [ Images ] on Monday rose a rung to seventh in the ATP doubles' ranking, displacing one-time partner Mahesh Bhupathi [ Images ] in the latest list.

Paes has 5575 ranking points, while Bhupathi lost a spot to slip to eighth with 5015.

Paes had made the quarter-finals of the Australian Open men's doubles event with Czech Lukas Dlouhy [ Images ]. He clinched the mixed doubles' championship on Sunday with Zimbabwean Cara Black [ Images ].

Bhupathi, on the other hand, had a forgettable outing at Melbourne [ Images ] Park, losing in the very first round of the men's doubles event due to a calf muscle injury.

The veteran later pulled out of the mixed doubles' event in which he was to team up with compatriot Sania Mirza [ Images ].

Sania, meanwhile, also slipped down three rungs to 59th following her second-round exit from the Australian Open.

The Hyderabadi, who recently broke off her engagement with childhood friend Sohrab Mirza, however, rose five places to 33rd in the doubles' chart.