Stosur shocked as Sharapova and Wozniacki advance
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March 14, 2012, Wednesday
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US Open champion Sam Stosur made a premature exit at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells on Monday while Maria Sharapova and defending champion Caroline Wozniacki both advanced.
Sixth-seeded Stosur lost a see-sawing third round encounter with Russian Nadia Petrova 1-6, 7-6, 6-7, before Sharapova wrapped up a 6-3, 6-4 win against Romania's Simona Halep on the fifth match point. In the final match of the day, Denmark's Wozniacki recovered from a shaky opening set to battle past Swede Sofia Arvidsson 3-6, 7-5, 6-2 after a fluctuating tussle lasting two hours and 37 minutes.
Petrova, beaten by Stosur at last year's US Open in the tournament's longest women's match of the tiebreak era, squealed with delight after the Australian pushed a forehand wide to end an encounter lasting close to three hours.
"I am very excited to be back," a beaming Petrova said after beating Stosur for the fifth time in seven meetings.
"This is only my third win of the year and you could see it when I was just about to close the match. I was a bit tentative."
In other matches, seventh-seed Marion Bartoli of France pummeled South African Chanelle Scheepers 6-2, 6-0 and Czech Lucie Safarova advanced when former French Open champion Francesca Schiavone became the latest victim of the widespread viral infection at Indian Wells.
Top-ranked Novak Djokovic defeated Kevin Anderson 6-2, 6-3 to reach the fourth round, while leading American men Mardy Fish and Andy Roddick were knocked out.
No. 8 Fish was beaten 6-3, 6-4 by Australian qualifier Matthew Ebden, with Fish getting penalized for hindrance. Former No. 1-ranked Roddick went down to No. 7 Tomas Berdych 6-3, 4-6, 6-2.
Sixth-seeded Stosur lost a see-sawing third round encounter with Russian Nadia Petrova 1-6, 7-6, 6-7, before Sharapova wrapped up a 6-3, 6-4 win against Romania's Simona Halep on the fifth match point. In the final match of the day, Denmark's Wozniacki recovered from a shaky opening set to battle past Swede Sofia Arvidsson 3-6, 7-5, 6-2 after a fluctuating tussle lasting two hours and 37 minutes.
Petrova, beaten by Stosur at last year's US Open in the tournament's longest women's match of the tiebreak era, squealed with delight after the Australian pushed a forehand wide to end an encounter lasting close to three hours.
"I am very excited to be back," a beaming Petrova said after beating Stosur for the fifth time in seven meetings.
"This is only my third win of the year and you could see it when I was just about to close the match. I was a bit tentative."
In other matches, seventh-seed Marion Bartoli of France pummeled South African Chanelle Scheepers 6-2, 6-0 and Czech Lucie Safarova advanced when former French Open champion Francesca Schiavone became the latest victim of the widespread viral infection at Indian Wells.
Top-ranked Novak Djokovic defeated Kevin Anderson 6-2, 6-3 to reach the fourth round, while leading American men Mardy Fish and Andy Roddick were knocked out.
No. 8 Fish was beaten 6-3, 6-4 by Australian qualifier Matthew Ebden, with Fish getting penalized for hindrance. Former No. 1-ranked Roddick went down to No. 7 Tomas Berdych 6-3, 4-6, 6-2.
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