Safina sets up Clijsters clash, Ivanovic packs off Azarenka
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August 11, 2010, Wednesday
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FORMER No. 1-ranked Dinara Safina beat Roberta Vinci 7-5, 6-4 on Monday 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.
Retired
No. 13 Shahar Peer became the first seeded player to advance on Monday 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.
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.
Retired
No. 13 Shahar Peer became the first seeded player to advance on Monday 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.
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