Hobart, Australia (My Sportsbook) - Top-seeded Italian Flavia Pennetta moved on, while third-seeded Russian Anna Chakvetadze came up a first-round loser Monday at the $220,000 Moorilla Hobart International tennis event, a final Australian Open tune-up. Pennetta got past Israeli Shahar Peer 6-2, 7-6 (7-5), while Chakvetadze succumbed to Spaniard Carla Suarez Navarro 7-6 (7-5), 1-6, 7-5 on Day 2 at Domain Tennis Centre. Additional upsets came when Brit Anne Keothavong knocked out fifth-seeded Hungarian Agnes Szavay 6-3, 7-5 and Polish qualifier Urszula Radwanska erased sixth-seeded Canadian Aleksandra Wozniak 3-6, 7-6 (7-3), 7-5. Fourth-seeded Chinese Jie Zheng avoided the upset bug by holding off New Zealand's Marina Erakovic 6-1, 4-6, 6-1. Other Day-2 wins came for Hungarian qualifier Melinda Czink, France's Virginie Razzano, Belarusian Olga Govortsova, Argentine Gisela Dulko, Italian Mara Santangelo and rising Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. Santangelo handled struggling Czech Nicole Vaidisova 6-1, 6-1. The 2009 Hobart champion will claim $37,000. |
