It's a bad day for the seeds on Day 3 in Hobart, including the Top seed

All of the seeded players that were on court on Tuesday were ousted in easy straight sets, and Top seed Flavia Pennetta was one of them.

No. 7 seed Alona Bondarenko was easily demoilshed by Petra Kvitova, 62 61. No. 4 seed Jie Zheng was just as bad as the Ukranian, as she lost to Gisela Dulko in straight sets, 63 63.

No. 1 seed Pennetta fought harder in the second set against Magdalena Rybarikova, but eventually lost, 63 75.

Other winners of the day included Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Iventa Benesova, Virginie Razzano, qualifier Melinda Czink and Tsvetana Pironkova.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Singles - Second Round

Magdalena Rybarikova (SVK) d. (1) Flavia Pennetta (ITA) 75 63

Gisela Dulko (ARG) d. (4) Zheng Jie (CHN) 63 63

Petra Kvitova (CZE) d. (7) Alona Bondarenko (UKR) 62 61

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) d. Carla Suárez Navarro (ESP) 64 61

Iveta Benesova (CZE) d. Mara Santangelo (ITA) 63 61

Virginie Razzano (FRA) d. Anne Keothavong (GBR) 46 60 75

(Q) Melinda Czink (HUN) d. (Q) Urszula Radwanska (POL) 42 ret. (back pain)

Tsvetana Pironkova (BUL) d. Olga Govortsova (BLR) 61 62