Prague, Czech Republic - Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia was among the seeded players shown an early exit Monday at the Prague Open. Join...
Prague, Czech Republic - Svetlana Kuznetsova
of Russia was among the seeded players shown an early exit Monday at the Prague
Open.
Joining the fourth-seeded Kuznetsova as upset victims Monday
were Romania's Irina-Camelia Begu and Italy's Camila Giorgi, while fifth-seeded
Alize Cornet of France to avoid the quick elimination.
China's Shuai Zhang knocked out Kuznetsova with a 6-4, 6-3
triumph, while Katerina Siniakova of the Czech Republic thumped the
sixth-seeded Begu, 6-3, 6-3. Belgium's Yanina Wickmayer rallied past the
eighth-seeded Giorgi, 4-6, 6-3, 7-5.
Cornet, though, had little trouble in her 6-3, 6-3 win over
Slovakian wild card Kristina Schmiedlova. Next up for the Frenchwoman will be
Czech wild card Denisa Allertova, who eased past American CoCo Vandeweghe, 6-4,
6-1.
Other winners on a busy first day included Russian Elena
Vesnina, Serbia's Aleksandra Krunic and Polona Hercog of Slovenia.
Vesnina pounded Slovakia's Jana Cepelova, 6-2, 6-1, while Krunic
came from behind for a 3-6, 7-6 (7-4), 6-0 victory over Croatia's Mirjana
Lucic-Baroni. Hercog outlasted Britain's Heather Watson, 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (7-5),
in a match that took more than three hours to complete. The top three seeds this week all hail from the host country.
Top-seeded Karolina Pliskova will headline Tuesday's first-round
action against Germany's Annika Beck, while second-seeded Lucie Safarova will
play countrymate Tereza Smitkova and third-seeded Barbora Strycova will take on
American Madison Brengle.
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