Kvitova falls behind early but still tops Beck
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Defending champion Petra Kvitova recovered from a set and a break down to beat Annika Beck 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 in the first round of the New Haven Open on Tuesday in Connecticut.
The third-seeded Kvitova dropped the first set and was broken in the first game of the second before staging the comeback in a match that was delayed due to rain on Monday.
“I wasn’t great, for sure,” the 2011 Wimbledon champion said. “I wasn’t feeling very well. I wasn’t positive during the game and then I had to fight and try to come back in the match.”
Beck entered the draw as a lucky loser when Poland’s Urszula Radwanska withdrew on Monday.
While Kvitova narrowly survived, No. 2-seeded Angelique Kerber lost her second-round match 6-2, 6-4 to Russia’s Elena Vesnina. Seventh-seeded Sabine Lisicki fell 7-5, 6-3 to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the final match of the night.
Vesnina, a 2009 finalist, won the first three games to take control of the first set and converted six service breaks in the match. Kerber hit a forehand just wide on match point and threw her racket in disgust. The call was upheld after a challenge.
Vesnina, seeking her third singles title this year, said the win over a top-10 opponent bodes well for her heading into next week’s US Open.
“Maybe it’s just my time to play good,” she said.
Vesnina will face Klara Zakopalova of the Czech Republic in the quarterfinals. Zakopalova upset eighth-seeded Dominika Cibulkova in the first round before beating 19-year-old Monica Puig 6-4, 6-1 on Tuesday.
On the men’s tour, Andreas Seppi was upset on Tuesday night in the second round of the Winston-Salem Open in North Carolina, leaving Spaniard Tommy Robredo as the only survivor among the top four seeds at the tournament.
Second-seeded Seppi was beaten by American qualifier Steve Johnson 6-7 (5), 6-4, 7-5.
The tournament lost two of its top three seeds on Monday when No. 1 Tomas Berdych and No. 3 John Isner, the two-time defending champion, withdrew with injuries.
Fourth-seeded Robredo beat France’s Guillaume Rufin 7-6 (5), 4-6, 6-3 to advance.
Eighth-seeded Juan Monaco of Argentina defeated France’s Nicolas Mahut 6-7 (4), 6-3, 6-4 in the hard-court tune-up for next week’s US Open.
Mardy Fish retired in the third set of his match with No. 11-seeded Jarkko Nieminen, who was leading 7-5, 6-7 (3), 3-2 when his American rival quit due to heat stroke.
In other second-round matches, fifth-seeded Benoit Paire of France beat American James Blake 7-6 (9), 2-6, 6-3; and seventh-seeded Fernando Verdasco beat American Tim Symczek 3-6, 6-3, 6-3.
Meanwhile, ninth-seeded Jurgen Melzer of Austria beat qualifier Thiemo de Bakker 7-5, 6-7 (4), 4-2 and 13th-seeded Dmitry Tursunov of Russia defeated qualifier David Goffin of Germany 4-6, 7-5, 6-1.
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