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 No. 7 seed Fabio Fognini retired from his second round match while
leading qualifier Daniel Gimeno-Traver 6-4, 1-3. Half of the top
seeds are now out, with No. 6 Jack Sock and No. 8 Thomaz Bellucci
losing their opening matches on Tuesday.
No. 5 seed Dominic Thiem escaped the upset bug in taking care of
Diego Schwartzman 7-6, 7-5 in his second round match Wednesday.
In the women's draw, wild card Sorana Cirstea upset No. 5 seed
Polona Hercog, 7-5, 7-6(3), while American Shelby Rogers also
advanced to the third round with a 7-5, 6-4 victory over Veronica
Cepede Royg. Francesca Schiavone was a three-set winner over Mariana
Duque-Marino, while Cindy Burger dispatched of fellow qualifier
Elitsa Kostova in straight sets.
OPEN 13 PROVENCE
Top-seed Stan Wawrinka survived two match points in a grueling
three-set victory in the second round in Marseille, France, beating
Sergiy Stakhovsky, 6-4, 4-6, 7-3(8) in a match that lasted just a
shade under two hours.
Stakhovsky beat Wawrinka in the quarterfinals of the same event last
year. It was Wawrinka's first match since the Australian Open.
"It was a great battle, I was lucky to get out of this," said
Wawrinka, who fought back from being a break down in the final set.
"The third set was complicated. I was lucky to be able to break him
at the end of the match."
No. 4 seed Marin Cilic also need three sets to get past Robin Haase
for a ticket into the third round, while No. 6 seed David Goffin
made quick work of qualifier Mischa Zverev, 6-1, 2-0, with the
German retiring at the 38-minute mark.
Another qualifier, France's Vincent Millot, upset countryman Nicolas
Mahut, 6-7(1), 6-2, 6-3 in two hours and 11 minutes. In another
dramatic match between Frenchmen, Quentin Halys beat David Guez,
6-7(5), 6-2, 6-3.
DELRAY BEACH OPEN
American Steve Johnson failed to reach the third round in Del Ray
Beach, Fla., as the No. 6 seed lost 5-7, 7-6(1), 6-3 to Germany's
Benjamin Becker.
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Unseeded American Rajeev Ram did make it to the third round with a
6-2, 7-5, 6-4 victory over Illya Marchenko in a match that lasted
more than two and a half hours. No. 8 seed Adrian Mannarino was also
a three-set winner, surviving against Japanese qualifier Tatsuma
Ito, 7-6(6), 6-7(4), 6-3 in the longest match of the day at two
hours and 45 minutes.
DUBAI DUTY FREE TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS
Ana Ivanovic continued her strong play to begin the 2016 season,
upsetting top-ranked Simona Halep 7-6(2), 6-2 in Dubai. Halep had
accepted a wild card to enter the event.
The draw was blown open Wednesday with all four of the top seeds
losing. Joining Halep in second-round exits were No. 2 seed Garbine
Muguruza, who fell in straight sets to Elina Svitolina (7-6(3),
6-3), No. 3 seed Carla Suarez Navarro, who lost in three sets to
Caroline Garcia (4-6, 6-4, 6-3), and No. 4 seed Petra Kvitova, also
a three-set loser to American Madison Brengle, 0-6, 7-6(1), 6-4.
Jelena Jankovic, who took out No. 5 seed Belinda Bencic in the first
round Tuesday, turned around and lost in straight sets to Andrea
Petkovic, 6-3, 6-2. With No. 6 seed Karolina Pliskova and No. 8 seed
Svetlana Kuznetsova losing their openers on Monday, all of the eight
seeded players failed to make it out of the second round.
American Coco Vandeweghe advanced to the third round with a 7-5,
3-6, 6-4 victory over Kristina Mladenovic. Sara Errani and Barbora
Strycova were other winners Wednesday.
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