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| June 16, 2005 | Thursday | Jumadi-ul-Awwal 8, 1426 |
Top seeds Robredo, Coria crash out
DEN BOSCH,(Netherlands), June 15: Top seeds Tommy Robredo and Guillermo Coria’s lack of expertise on grass was ruthlessly exposed on Wednesday when they were beaten in the second round of the Ordina Open. Spaniard Robredo was beaten 6-2 7-6 by German Lars Burgsmueller, ranked 101st in the world, while last year’s runner-up and second seed Coria fell 6-3 6-4 to unheralded Czech Jan Hernych.
Robredo looked set to hit back when he broke for 4-3 in the second but the French Open quarterfinalist dropped his own serve immediately.
The players went into a tiebreak and the German clinched it 7-5 to secure a meeting with either defending champion Michael Llodra or eighth-seeded Frenchman Paul-Henri Mathieu.
Second seed Coria looked out of his element in the breezy conditions of the late afternoon and Hernych took full advantage to claim the best win of his career.
In the women’s event, second seed Nadia Petrova opened her grasscourt season with a comfortable 6-3 6-4 win over Mariana Diaz Oliva of Argentina to reach the quarter-finals.
In her first appearance since reaching the French Open semi-finals, Petrova looked comfortable on the grass and Diaz Oliva struggled to cope with her power.
The Argentine thrashed Italian Maria Elena Camerin 6-3 6-0.
Fourth seed Dinara Safina, younger sister of Australian Open champion Marat Safin, edged out Maria Kirilenko 6-4 7-6, while 16-year-old Michaella Krajicek reached her first WTA Tour quarterfinal with a 6-3 3-6 6-2 victory over third seed Anabel Medina Garrigues of Spain.
Results
Men’s singles(second round)
Jan Hernych (Czech Republic) bt Guillermo Coria (Argentina) 6-3 6-4;
Lars Burgsmueller (Germany) bt Tommy Robredo (Spain) 6-2 7-6(5);
Philipp Kohlschreiber (Germany) bt 5-Robin Soederling (Sweden) 6-4 4-6 7-6(9)
Women’s singles(second round)
Meghann Shaughnessy (US) bt Anna-Lena Groenefeld (Germany) 7-6 3-6 3-0 (Groenefeld retired); 8-Klara Koukalova (Czech Republic) bt Claudine Schaul (Luxembourg) 4-6 6-4 6-0; Lucie Safarova (Czech Republic) bt Virginia Ruano Pascual (Spain) 6-1 6-1; Gisela Dulko (Argentina) bt Maria Elena Camerin (Italy) 6-3 6-0; Michaella Krajicek (Netherlands) bt Anabel Medina Garrigues (Spain) 6-3 3-6 6-2; Dinara Safina (Russia) bt Maria Kirilenko (Russia) 6-4 7-6(2); Nadia Petrova (Russia) beat Mariana Diaz-Oliva (Argentina) 6-3 6-4
Mauresmo beaten
EASTBOURNE,(England): Top seed Amelie Mauresmo fell at the first hurdle when she lost to Russian qualifier Vera Douchevina in the Eastbourne WTA tournament on Wednesday.
Her 6-4 6-4 defeat in the second round, after a first-round bye, threw world number three Mauresmo’s Wimbledon preparations into disarray.
World number 97, defeated temperamental Russian fifth seed Vera Zvonareva 6-2 7-6.
Second seed Svetlana Kuznetsova came back from losing the first set to fellow Russian Anna Chakvetadze to win 1-6 6-4 7-6.
Women’s singles(second round): Vera Douchevina (RUS) bt Amelie Mauresmo (FRA) 6-4, 6-4; Mashona Washington (USA) bt Virginie Razzano (FRA) 7-6 (7/4), 6-4; Svetlana Kusnetsova (RUS ) bt Anna Chakvetadze (RUS) 1-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7/5); Roberta Vinci (ITA) bt Vera Zvonareva (RUS) 6-2, 7-6 (7/5); Marion Bartoli (FRA) bt Lisa Raymond (USA) 6-3, 6-4; Anastasia Myskina (RUS) bt Maria Vento-Kabchi (VEN) 6-4, 5-7, 6-0; Kim Clijsters (BEL) bt Conchita Martinez (ESP) 6-2, 6-2; Nathalie Dechy (FRA) bt Amy Frazier (USA) 4-6, 6-3, 6-3.
Federer, Davenport top seeded
LONDON: Men’s singles runner-up Andy Roddick was promoted up the Wimbledon seedings from his ranking of four when he was named second seed for next week’s championships.
American Roddick was elevated over 2002 winner and world number two Lleyton Hewitt. Roger Federer topped the list followed by Roddick, Hewitt and newly-crowned French Open victor Rafael Nadal.
Seedings
Men’s singles: 1. Roger Federer (Switzerland), 2. Andy Roddick (US), 3. Lleyton Hewitt (Australia), 4. Rafael Nadal (Spain), 5. Marat Safin (Russia) 6. Tim Henman (Britain), 7. Guillermo Canas (Argentina), 8. Nikolay Davydenko (Russia), 9. Sebastien Grosjean (France), 10. Mario Ancic (Croatia), 11. Joachim Johansson (Sweden), 12. Thomas Johansson (Sweden), 13. Tommy Robredo (Spain), 14. Radek Stepanek (Czech Republic), 15. Guillermo Coria (Argentina), 16. Mariano Puerta (Argentina), 17. David Ferrer (Spain), 18. David Nalbandian (Argentina), 19. Tommy Haas (Germany), 20. Ivan Ljubicic (Croatia) 21. Fernando Gonzalez (China), 22. Dominik Hrbaty (Slovakia), 23. Juan Carlos Ferrero (Spain), 24. Taylor Dent (US), 25. Nicolas Kiefer (Germany), 26. Feliciano Lopez (Spain), 27. Richard Gasquet (France), 28. Jiri Novak (Czech Republic), 29. Nicolas Massu (China), 30. Robin Soderling (Sweden), 31. Mikhail Youzhny (Russia), 32. Filippo Volandri (Italy).
Women’s singles: 1. Lindsay Davenport (US), 2. Maria Sharapova (Russia), 3. Amelie Mauresmo (France), 4. Serena Williams (US), 5. Svetlana Kuznetsova (Russia), 6. Elena Dementieva (Russia), 7. Justine Henin-Hardenne (Belgium), 8. Nadia Petrova (Russia), 9. Anastasia Myskina (Russia), 10. Patty Schnyder (Switzerland), 11. Vera Zvonareva (Russia), 12. Mary Pierce (France), 13. Elena Likhovtseva (Russia), 14. Venus Williams (US), 15. Kim Clijsters (Belgium), 16. Nathalie Dechy (France), 17. Jelena Jankovic (Serbia & Montenegro), 18. Tatiana Golovin (France), 19. Ana Ivanovic (Serbia & Montenegro), 20. Daniela Hantuchova (Slovakia), 21. Francesca Schiavone (Italy), 22. Silvia Farina Elia (Italy), 23. Ai Sugiyama (Japan), 24. Shinobu Asagoe (Japan), 25. Karolina Sprem (Croatia), 26. Flavia Pennetta (Italy), 27. Nicole Vaidisova (Czech Republic), 28. Amy Frazier (US), 29. Marion Bartoli (France), 30. Dinara Safina (Russia), 31. Anabel Medina Garrigues (Spain), 32. Virginie Razzano (France).—Agencies
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