Zheng advances but seeds fall early
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August 10, 2011, Wednesday
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MARION Bartoli was the major casualty in Monday's first-round action at the WTA's Rogers Cup in Toronto, losing in straight sets to qualifier Galina Voskoboeva.
The ninth-seeded Frenchwoman struggled with her serve throughout the match, giving away four double-fault points, while her Kazakh opponent capitalized on her opportunities by winning four of her six break points and took the match 6-3, 6-3.
Only four seeds took to the court on Monday and three lost. Along with Bartoli, Svetlana Kuznetsova and Jelena Jankovic were eliminated, while Sam Stosur won.
Bartoli said "it was a day when nothing was working."
"I tried my hardest but I committed so many mistakes it was hard to win. I was not feeling the ball and my legs were not moving. I was late on everything and committing a lot mistakes, especially on my backhand."
Germany's Julia Goerges topped No. 15 seed Jankovic with a 6-1, 6-3 victory in an evening match and her likely second-round opponent will be Serena Williams, who will play Ukraine's Alona Bondarenko in the first round.
Goerges sailed through the first set against the former No. 1 with overpowering forehand winners from the baseline and an aggressive first serve.
It was the first match since Wimbledon for Jankovic and the Serbian showed rust. "I had a hard time playing my first match since June," she said. "I wasn't feeling my game out there and hopefully with more matches I'll be better in my next tournament."
Romanian Simona Halep, another qualifier, upset 12th-seeded Kuznetsova of Russia 4-6, 6-4, 6-3. The 15th-ranked Kuznetsova had 50 unforced errors to send Halep to the second round in her Rogers Cup debut.
Set down
Australia's Stosur came from a set down to win 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 victory over Japan's Ayumi Morita. Stosur will face either Israel's Shahar Peer of wildcard home favorite Aleksandra Wozniak.
China's Zheng Jie defeated Italy's Alberta Brianti 6-2, 6-1; Russia's Nadia Petrova ousted Australia's Jarmila Gajdosova 6-1, 6-2; and Hungary's Greta Arn upended the Czech Republic's Klara Zakopalova 6-3, 6-1.
In Montreal, France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga beat Italy's Fabio Fognini 6-4, 7-6 (0) in the Rogers Cup. On a day when only three seeds were in action, No. 13 Tsonga progressed to a second-round meeting with Australian teenager Bernard Tomic, who was a 7-6 (5), 6-3 winner over Chinese Taipei's Lu Yen-hsun.
Switzerland's Stanislas Wawrinka beat Argentina's David Nalbandian 6-1, 6-4. The 14th-seeded Wawrinka will next play American qualifier Michael Russell or Spain's Albert Montanes.
Argentina's Juan Martin del Potro, the runner-up in Montreal in 2009 and seeded 16th this year, downed Finland's Jarrko Nieminen 6-4, 6-0. He will next face Croatian Marin Cilic, who beat Italy's Andreas Seppi 7-5, 6-4.
The ninth-seeded Frenchwoman struggled with her serve throughout the match, giving away four double-fault points, while her Kazakh opponent capitalized on her opportunities by winning four of her six break points and took the match 6-3, 6-3.
Only four seeds took to the court on Monday and three lost. Along with Bartoli, Svetlana Kuznetsova and Jelena Jankovic were eliminated, while Sam Stosur won.
Bartoli said "it was a day when nothing was working."
"I tried my hardest but I committed so many mistakes it was hard to win. I was not feeling the ball and my legs were not moving. I was late on everything and committing a lot mistakes, especially on my backhand."
Germany's Julia Goerges topped No. 15 seed Jankovic with a 6-1, 6-3 victory in an evening match and her likely second-round opponent will be Serena Williams, who will play Ukraine's Alona Bondarenko in the first round.
Goerges sailed through the first set against the former No. 1 with overpowering forehand winners from the baseline and an aggressive first serve.
It was the first match since Wimbledon for Jankovic and the Serbian showed rust. "I had a hard time playing my first match since June," she said. "I wasn't feeling my game out there and hopefully with more matches I'll be better in my next tournament."
Romanian Simona Halep, another qualifier, upset 12th-seeded Kuznetsova of Russia 4-6, 6-4, 6-3. The 15th-ranked Kuznetsova had 50 unforced errors to send Halep to the second round in her Rogers Cup debut.
Set down
Australia's Stosur came from a set down to win 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 victory over Japan's Ayumi Morita. Stosur will face either Israel's Shahar Peer of wildcard home favorite Aleksandra Wozniak.
China's Zheng Jie defeated Italy's Alberta Brianti 6-2, 6-1; Russia's Nadia Petrova ousted Australia's Jarmila Gajdosova 6-1, 6-2; and Hungary's Greta Arn upended the Czech Republic's Klara Zakopalova 6-3, 6-1.
In Montreal, France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga beat Italy's Fabio Fognini 6-4, 7-6 (0) in the Rogers Cup. On a day when only three seeds were in action, No. 13 Tsonga progressed to a second-round meeting with Australian teenager Bernard Tomic, who was a 7-6 (5), 6-3 winner over Chinese Taipei's Lu Yen-hsun.
Switzerland's Stanislas Wawrinka beat Argentina's David Nalbandian 6-1, 6-4. The 14th-seeded Wawrinka will next play American qualifier Michael Russell or Spain's Albert Montanes.
Argentina's Juan Martin del Potro, the runner-up in Montreal in 2009 and seeded 16th this year, downed Finland's Jarrko Nieminen 6-4, 6-0. He will next face Croatian Marin Cilic, who beat Italy's Andreas Seppi 7-5, 6-4.
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