Thursday, June 12, 2008

One seed in, two seeds out

Sixth seeded Sara Errani was the only victorious seed on Wednesday, beating American- Uzbek Varvara Lepchenko 64 75. Errani was leading 5-1 in the first set, but Lepchenko rallied back and made it 5-4, before Errani finaly won the game to close out the set. In the second set, it was 5-2 to Errani, but Lepchenko again battled it back to 5-5. Errani worked hard to close out the last two games to close out the match.

Fifth seed Pauline Parmentier wasn't so lucky as Sara Errani. She fell to wildcard Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez easily, 62 64. Martinez was strong on her serve, winning 73% of first serve points and 61% of second serve points. She was even stronger on break points winning 3 out of 4 (75%).

In matches between unseeded players, Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro beat Magdalena Rybarikova, 76(3) 60, and Nuria Llagostera Vives crushed Spanish wildcard Eloisa Compostizo de Andrés, 63 60.

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