Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Shvedova upset in Birmingham

6th seed Yaroslava Shvedova lost her second round match today at the AEGON Classic in Birmingham. She was defeated 6-4, 6-4 by qualifier Sesil Karatantcheva. Also going out in the second round were 8th seed Andrea Petkovic and 16th seed Vania King.

In the first round, 12th seed Elena Baltacha retired with a g.i. illness. Baltacha suffered heat illness last week in Nottingham, where she won the tournament and had to play her quarterfinal and semifinal matches on the same day; she has been feeling a bit weak ever since.

It rained again today in Birmingham, and several matches had to be suspended.

2 comments:

Overhead Spin said...

Diane, did you hear that Amelie Mauresmo is now coaching Michael Llodra through the grass season? I have been trying to find a link to this but I saw it on twitter sometime ago.

Diane said...

I didn't hear that, but it's true. Here is the Tennis.com story, referring to the original story in L'Equipe: http://tinyurl.com/2vqj4lt