Thursday, June 19, 2008

Bartoli wins opener, Kuznetsova and Zvonareva out


The second round is complete and only 1 out of three players who played won, that one being Marion Bartoli.

Vera Zvonareva and Svetlana Kuznetsova came off an impressive clay-court season. Zvonareva fell to Ekaterina Makarova 63 63, while Sveta fell to another youngster, Caroline Wozniacki, 62 62.

No.4 seed Agnieszka Radwanska split sets with Virginie Razzano in the last match of the day, dropping the first 6-3 and winning the second 6-3, before darkness fell and the conclusion was pushed to Thursday.

In other matches, Gisela Dulko got past Olga Govortovsa, 61 67(3) 62; qualifier Alisa Kleybanova beat Aravane Rezai, 63 57 63; and Samantha Stosur advanced when Amélie Mauresmo retired up 2-1 in the first set due to a left thigh injury.

"I felt something on the last point of my first service game; during the return game, I couldn't really move that well or push off of my left leg anymore," Mauresmo said. "With this happening at the beginning of the match, I didn't feel like taking any risks before Wimbledon next week. I am of course disappointed but I felt I had to make the decision to stop it here."

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