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August 10, 2010, Tuesday
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FORMER No. 1-ranked Dinara Safina beat Roberta Vinci 7-5, 6-4 yesterday at the Cincinnati Open to set up a second-round match with US Open champion Kim Clijsters, who has not played on the women's tour since her Wimbledon quarterfinal defeat.
Clijsters got a first-round bye at Cincinnati along with defending champion and top-seeded Jelana Jankovic.
Jankovic will open against 71st-ranked Vera Dushevina, who beat Anastasia Rodionova 6-2, 7-6 (7).
Jankovic's fellow Serb, Ana Ivanovic, rallied from a set and a break down to beat ninth-seeded Victoria Azarenka 2-6, 7-6 (6), 6-2 in a grueling first-round match that lasted 2 hours, 14 minutes.
The 62nd-ranked Ivanovic built on the momentum of winning the tiebreaker to break Azarenka's serve in the first game of the third set and never looked back, clinching the win with a successful challenge on match point.
No. 13 Shahar Peer became the first seeded player to advance yesterday when Olga Govortsova retired while trailing 6-3, 4-1. Peer will meet Nuria Llagostera Vives in the second round. Vives needed three sets to overcome Vania King, 3-6, 6-3, 6-1, while Sara Errani moved on with a 6-4, 6-2 win over Jamie Hampton.
No. 16 Marion Bartoli also advanced with a 6-4, 6-0 win over Anabel Medina Garrigues and will next play Alona Bondarenko, a 3-6, 6-2, 6-3 winner over Dominika Cibulkova.
In other first-round matches, qualifier Bojana Jovanovski rallied to upset 14th-seeded Aravane Rezai 4-6, 6-3, 6-4. The first-round loss was the second straight for Rezai. The 19th-ranked Frenchwoman lost in the first round last week at San Diego.
Jovanovski, ranked 98th, will meet Akgul Amanmuradova in the second round. Amanmuradova cruised past Kimiko Date Krumm 6-1, 6-2 in a matchup of qualifiers.
Qualifier Monica Niculescu beat 91st-ranked Sabine Lisicki 6-3, 6-0, Yaroslava Shvedova defeated Alla Kudryavtseva 7-5, 6-4, qualifier Ayumi Morita knocked off Arantxa Parra Santonja 7-6 (7), 6-2, and Alisa Kleybanova beat Alexandra Dulgheru, 6-4, 6-4.
Jankovic said she is hoping to get tournament-tough with a long string of matches.
She is coming off a first-round loss last week in San Diego, her first match since injuring her left ankle in the second round of a tournament in Slovenia in mid-July.
"My ankle's OK," said Jankovic, who also had to retire from her fourth-round match at Wimbledon with lower back problems. "I've been able to practice the last couple of days. Now, it's feeling good. I'm looking forward to getting back to playing."
Clijsters got a first-round bye at Cincinnati along with defending champion and top-seeded Jelana Jankovic.
Jankovic will open against 71st-ranked Vera Dushevina, who beat Anastasia Rodionova 6-2, 7-6 (7).
Jankovic's fellow Serb, Ana Ivanovic, rallied from a set and a break down to beat ninth-seeded Victoria Azarenka 2-6, 7-6 (6), 6-2 in a grueling first-round match that lasted 2 hours, 14 minutes.
The 62nd-ranked Ivanovic built on the momentum of winning the tiebreaker to break Azarenka's serve in the first game of the third set and never looked back, clinching the win with a successful challenge on match point.
No. 13 Shahar Peer became the first seeded player to advance yesterday when Olga Govortsova retired while trailing 6-3, 4-1. Peer will meet Nuria Llagostera Vives in the second round. Vives needed three sets to overcome Vania King, 3-6, 6-3, 6-1, while Sara Errani moved on with a 6-4, 6-2 win over Jamie Hampton.
No. 16 Marion Bartoli also advanced with a 6-4, 6-0 win over Anabel Medina Garrigues and will next play Alona Bondarenko, a 3-6, 6-2, 6-3 winner over Dominika Cibulkova.
In other first-round matches, qualifier Bojana Jovanovski rallied to upset 14th-seeded Aravane Rezai 4-6, 6-3, 6-4. The first-round loss was the second straight for Rezai. The 19th-ranked Frenchwoman lost in the first round last week at San Diego.
Jovanovski, ranked 98th, will meet Akgul Amanmuradova in the second round. Amanmuradova cruised past Kimiko Date Krumm 6-1, 6-2 in a matchup of qualifiers.
Qualifier Monica Niculescu beat 91st-ranked Sabine Lisicki 6-3, 6-0, Yaroslava Shvedova defeated Alla Kudryavtseva 7-5, 6-4, qualifier Ayumi Morita knocked off Arantxa Parra Santonja 7-6 (7), 6-2, and Alisa Kleybanova beat Alexandra Dulgheru, 6-4, 6-4.
Jankovic said she is hoping to get tournament-tough with a long string of matches.
She is coming off a first-round loss last week in San Diego, her first match since injuring her left ankle in the second round of a tournament in Slovenia in mid-July.
"My ankle's OK," said Jankovic, who also had to retire from her fourth-round match at Wimbledon with lower back problems. "I've been able to practice the last couple of days. Now, it's feeling good. I'm looking forward to getting back to playing."
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