Wozniacki eliminated in a day of upsets
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World No. 5 five Caroline Wozniacki suffered a second-round upset to Swiss Belinda Bencic on Wednesday at the Rogers Cup, then hit back with strong criticism of the WTA.
The Dane played despite recovering from a nagging calf injury and fell in a close match 5-7, 5-7 before indicating she felt pushed to play by the WTA rules. “The rules, if you’re a top-10 player are that this was my commitment tournament, you’re forced to play,” Wozniacki said. “If you don’t, you get huge money fines. You get zero points to your ranking ...which is crazy.”
Wozniacki, a former world No. 1, also lost in the second round last week in Stanford.
Wozniacki was not alone in being upset as third seed Petra Kvitova lost to former world No. 1 Victoria Azarenka 2-6, 3-6.
Defending champion Agnieszka Radwanska avoided such a fate with her 7-5, 6-3 triumph against Julia Goerges while second seed Simona Halep stormed into the third round with a commanding 6-3, 6-4 win over another former world No. 1 Jelena Jankovic.
Halep was joined in the third round by fifth seed Ana Ivanovic, a 6-4, 7-6 (4) winner over Belarusian qualifier Olga Govortsova, but it was otherwise a tough morning for seeds at the Aviva Tennis Centre.
Seventh seeded Czech Lucie Safarova fell 6-4, 5-7, 5-7 to Russia’s Daria Gavrilova.
Following Safarova to the exit were eighth seeded Spaniard Garbine Muguruza and Russian Ekaterina Makarova, the 11th seed.
Muguruza, playing her first event since reaching the Wimbledon final, slumped to a 5-7, 1-6 loss to Ukrainian qualifier Lesia Tsurenko while Makarova, coming off a semifinal loss in Washington last week, was tripped up by Slovenian Polona Hercog 2-6, 7-6 (2), 5-7.
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