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Halep, Wozniacki fall by wayside
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Simona Halep was beaten 2-6, 1-6 by Russia鈥檚 Daria Kasatkina yesterday at a tumultuous Wuhan Open that has seen two thirds of the top seeds tumble out in the first two rounds.
Halep, world No. 2, headed for the exit together with Dane Caroline Wozniacki, ranked six, who crashed out 5-7, 3-6 to Maria Sakkari of Greece.
They followed fellow seeds Johanna Konta, Sloane Stephens, Madison Keys and Petra Kvitova among others, who all suffered surprise defeats on Monday.
But it was not all bad news for the sport鈥檚 top players as Spaniard Garbine Muguruza, world No. 1, triumphed against Ukrainian Lesia Tsurenko, sailing into the third round with a 6-4, 6-4 victory.
Halep begun her second-round match strongly and immediately broke her opponent. But she was later let down by her service game, managing to convert just 12 percent of her second serves.
The 25-year-old Romanian was competing in her first match since the opening round at the US Open, where she lost to Russian Maria Sharapova.
鈥淚 didn鈥檛 play for a month. It鈥檚 tough to come back and to play matches... Maybe it was a mistake that I didn鈥檛 play, but I needed rest after the US season,鈥 she said after the match.
鈥淲hat I saw after the US Open was that my serve is too soft for the big players, so that鈥檚 why I decided to work on it more.鈥
Wozniacki, No. 4 seed, was upset by Sakkari, ranked 80 in the world, who grabbed her first win over a top-20 player.
The defeat came after Wozniacki, who finished as year-end world No. 1 in 2010 and 2011, won her third Pan Pacific Open in Japan last week, capturing her first title of the year.
She had previously lost six finals.
In other matches, Karolina Pliskova triumphed over China鈥檚 second-ranked player Zhang Shuai in three sets.
The 25-year-old Czech overpowered Zhang 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 in just over two hours, breaking an unlucky streak for the competition鈥檚 top seeds.
Pliskova, seeded three, has never lost to Zhang and once again showed she had the measure of her Chinese opponent, who had been on a high after winning the Guangzhou Open title last week. She will now face another home crowd favorite, Wang Qiang, the first-ever Chinese player to reach the third round at Wuhan.
Elsewhere, Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, seeded eight, triumphed over Czech Barbora Strycova 2-6, 7-5, 6-3. The French Open champion was coming off her Korea Open title victory on Sunday.
Agnieszka Radwanska, seeded nine, defeated German Julia Gorges 7-5, 7-5.
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