Wednesday, July 8, 2009

A day of upsets in Bastad

Several seeds were eliminated today in the second round of the Swedish Open in Bastad. Gisela defeated 5th seed Sorana Cirstea, Maria Kirilenko defeated 6th seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, and Alla Kudryavtseva defeated 8th seed Iveta Benesova.

Yesterday, 4th seed Kai Kanepi lost to Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez, and 3rd seed Flavia Pennetta was the winner of a clash of Italian clay specialists when she defeated Wimbledon quarterfinalist Francesca Schiavone.

Meanwhile, in Budapest, at the GDF Suez Grand Prix, Edina Gallovits upset 3rd seed Sybille Bammer today in the second round of play, and Shahar Peer upset 2nd seed Alize Cornet, 6-2, 6-0. Yesterday, in the first round, 8th seed Lucie Safarova was defeated by Petra Martic.

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