Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Kirilenko advances at Korea Open

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -Top-seeded Maria Kirilenko of Russia easily advanced to the second round of the Korea Open on Tuesday, beating Lenka Wienerova of Slovakia 6-2, 6-0.

Two other seeded players won, while two lost on the hard courts of Olympic Park.

Third-seeded Kaia Kanepi of Estonia beat Rika Fujiwara of Japan 6-2, 6-7 (5), 6-0, and No. 8 Chan Yung-jan of Taiwan defeated Mara Santangelo of Italy 1-6, 6-3, 6-4.


Fourth-seeded Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain and seventh-seeded Marina Erakovic of New Zealand lost, however. Suarez Navarro lost to Klara Zakopalova of Czech Republic 6-1, 6-7 (3), 6-4, and Erakovic fell to Samantha Stosur of Australia 6-2, 6-0.

Other winners included Ayumi Morita of Japan, Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic, Stephanie Dubois of Canada, Jill Craybas of the United States, Ekaterina Makarova of Russia and Anastasia Pivovarova of Russia.




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