Saturday, March 14, 2009

Plenty of upsets in BNP Paribas Open 2nd round

Marion Bartoli was not the only seed to go out in the second round of the BNP Paribas Open yesterday, nor was she the highest seed defeated. Number 6 seed Svetlana Kuznetsova fell to wild card Urszula Radwanska, 13th seed Patty Schnyder lost to Li Na, and 16th seed Anabel Medina Garrigues lost to Jill Craybas.

But they weren't the only ones. Nicole Vaidisova took out number 24 seed Alona Bondarenko, Petra Kvitova defeated number 26 seed Iveta Benesova, wild card Alexa Glatch defeated 29th seed Carla Suarez Navarro, and Elena Vesnina defeated number 32 seed Sorana Cirstea.

There was also one retirement: Virginie Razzano retired with a back injury, giving a win to her opponent, Kaia Kanepi. Also, Urszula Radwanska twisted her ankle in her last game against Kuznetsova, and has expressed some concern about how badly she may have hurt it.

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