Medina Garrigues rallies to advance
STRASBOURG, France -- Defending champion Anabel Medina Garrigues of Spain rallied to beat Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium 1-6, 6-3, 6-3 on Tuesday in the first round at the Strasbourg International.
Need the scores from any match played in today's tournaments? The top-seeded Garrigues, who won at Strasbourg in 2005 and '07, will face Kristina Barrois of Germany at the clay event.
But four seeded players, including No. 5 Tamarine Tanasugarn of Thailand and No. 6 Elena Vesnina of Russia, lost on a day of upsets.
Tanasugarn lost 6-3, 6-0 to Viktoriya Kutuzova of Ukraine, and Vesnina fell 6-4, 6-2 to Julie Coin of France.
Also, Monica Niculescu of Romania beat seventh-seeded Anna-Lena Groenefeld of Germany 4-6, 6-2, 6-3, and Alla Kudryavtseva of Russia defeated No. 8 Nathalie Dechy of France 6-0, 6-7 (5), 6-3.
Pauline Parmentier of France beat Varvara Lepchenko of the United States 7-6 (5), 7-6 (2); Anastasiya Yakimova of Belarus topped Maret Ani of Estonia 6-3, 7-5; and Lucie Hradecka of the Czech Republic beat Jasmin Woehr of Germany 3-6, 6-1, 6-2.
Stephanie Foretz of France downed Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium 6-1, 2-6, 6-2.
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