Seeds upset in first round in both Slovenia and Bad Gastein

Top seed and defending champion Andrea Petkovic won her first round in Bad Gastein today, defeating Iveta Benesova 6-4, 6-0, but 3rd seed Anabel Medina Garrigues, 4th seed Klara Zakopalova, 5th seed Sybille Bammer, and 6th seed Barbora Zahlavova Strycova were all upset.

Yesterday, in Bad Gastein, Mariya Koryttseva saved eight match points and defeated Tatjana Malek in a match that lasted almost three hours.

In Slovenia, hometown star Katarina Srebotnik got off to a good start by defeating Petra Martic 6-3, 6-1. Top seed Jelena Jankovic defeated countrywoman Bojana Jovanovski, but 2nd seed Petra Kvitova was upset by Stepanie Voegele. Also upset in the first round were 5th seed Dominika Cibulkova and 8th seed Sophia Arvidssson. Cibulkova lost in straight sets to Ksenia Pervak.

In first round play yesterday, Virginie Razzano made her post-injury return by defeating Zuzana Kucova.

Pivovarova and Koryttseva play 4-hour match

Anastasia Pivovarova and Mariya Korytteva made news in Kremlin Cup qualifying when they played for three hours and fifty-five minutes. The match, won by Koryttseva, is the third longest women's match in the Open Era.

Wozniacki upset in Bad Gastein

Mariya Koryttseva defeated number 3 seed Caroline Wozniacki, 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 today in the second round of the Gastein Ladies in Austria. The match lasted almost three hours and appears to have been very close.

Errani wins everything in Palermo

Sara Errani defeated Mariya Koryttseva 6-2, 6-3 today to win the Internazionali Femminili di Palermo. Errani, with partner Nuria Llagostera Vives, also won the doubles title, defeating Alla Kudryavtseva and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, 2-6, 7-6, 10-4.

With this win, Errani moves from the number 60 spot to number 51 in the world.

Number 1 doubles seeds out in 2nd round of Pacific Life Open

The number 1 seeds at Indian Wells, Kveta Peschke and Rennae Stubbs, have been defeated in the second round by the team of Mariya Koryttseva and Vladmira Uhlirova, 1-6, 6-4, 10-8. Don't you just love the super-tiebreak?...