Top-ranked Ana Ivanovic ran into a bit of care against Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic.
Tennis newsTop-ranked Ana Ivanovic ran into a bit of effort against Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic. Before normal 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 in the additional round of the Rogers Cup on Wednesday.
Ivanovic, the 2006 champion who had a first-round bye, overcame nine twin and losing her tend five times in her first encounter with Kvitova, the 18-year-old who sad Venus Williams at Memphis this year.
The Serb played with a blown up accurate thumb she injured practicing 10 days previous but she refused to use that as an apology for her running.
“I went on the close and that resources that I felt 100 per cent on the brink of to play,” Ivanovic said. “So, visibly it takes some time to get in a regularity. But I went through this equal. It would probably be the same even if I was feeling 100 per cent.”
Making her first appearance on tour since her -round loss at Wimbledon, Ivanovic must polish ahead of world No. 2 Jelena Jankovic and No. 3 Maria Sharapova to keep the No. 1 ranking she’s held since winning the French Open in immediate June.
Sharapova also struggled in her opener, winning virtually three hours to put down Marta Domachowska of Poland 7-5, 5-7, 6-2. Sharapova needed a trainer to look at her right-hand assume in the median of the subsequent set. In a game with binary faults, Sharapova made 17 to 13, the Russian overdrawn two times hasty in the set for a 4-0 lead and held on.
In the third round, Ivanovic will play Tamira Paszek of Austria, a 6-4, 7-5 winner over Melinda Czink of Hungary. Sharapova will play Japanese veteran Ai Sugiyama.
Also were Russian seeds Anna Chakvetadze, Dinara Safina and Nadia Petrova, along with 15-year-old Michelle Larcher de Brito.
No. 6-seeded Chakvetadze downed the last American, Jill Craybas, 6-2, 7-5, No. 7 Safina easily past Russian compatriot Anastasia Rodionova 6-2, 6-4, and Petrova for Thai Olympian Tamarine Tanasugarn 6-3, 6-2.
Also, No. 9 Patty Schnyder of Switzerland Monica Niculescu of Romania 6-1, 7-5, appealing five straight games to convention from 2-5 in the succeeding set, and No. 11 Victoria Azarenka of Belarus overpowered Sybille Bammer of Austria 6-2, 6-2.
No. 10 Marion Bartoli of France received a walkover when Alisa Kleybanova of Russia withdrew with a lower back injury. Bartoli will play Chakvetadze next, and Petrova will meet Schnyder in the last 16.
Two seeds were knocked out. No. 15 Flavia Pennetta, jogger-up to Safina at Los Angeles last week, was crushed by contender Larcher de Brito of Portugal 6-3, 0-6, 6-3. It is the next time this year the teen has reached the third round of a Tier I event, after Key Biscayne in March.
Local player Stephanie Dubois unhappy No. 13 Maria Kirilenko of Russia 6-2, 2-6, 7-6 (4), a drop shot volley to might Kirilenko to hit into the net on bout thing, to upbeat cheers from the Uniprix Stadium host.
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