Azarenka rolls; Wozniacki falls in Doha opener
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02/15/2012 -
Doha, Qatar (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - World No. 1 Belarusian stalwart Victoria
Azarenka was an easy second-round winner, while former top-ranked star
Caroline Wozniacki was among Wednesday's second-round losers at the $2.168
million Qatar Open.
The Australian Open champion Azarenka saw her first action as the world No. 1
star and looked very bit the part on Day 3 as she pummeled rising German Mona
Barthel 6-1, 6-0 in one hour on the hardcourts at Khalifa International
Tennis Complex. The 21-year-old Barthel captured her first-ever WTA title in
Hobart last month.
A second-seeded Wozniacki, meanwhile, played her first match since losing the
top ranking to Azarenka last month and succumbed to Czech Lucie Safarova 4-6,
6-4, 7-6 (7-3) in the round of 32. The Danish Wozniacki was last year's Doha
runner-up to Russian Vera Zvonareva, who also exited the draw here on
Wednesday.
Romanian Monica Niculescu was beating a sixth-seeded Zvonareva 7-5, 3-2 when
the former Wimbledon and U.S. Open runner-up retired, citing a hip injury.
Zvonareva was also a Doha runner-up in 2008.
Two other top-five seeds reached the third round, as No. 4 Pole Agnieszka
Radwanska drubbed British qualifier Anne Keothavong 6-1, 6-2 and No. 5 French
slugger Marion Bartoli dismantled Spaniard Anabel Medina Garrigues 6-2, 6-0.
The former Wimbledon runner-up Bartoli was a runner-up in Paris last week.
Two more top-eight seeds suffered upsets, as Belgian Yanina Wickmayer doused
No. 7 Italian Francesca Schiavone 7-6 (7-4), 6-4 and Israeli Shahar Peer
erased No. 8 Serb Jelena Jankovic 7-6 (7-3), 6-2. Schiavone was last year's
French Open runner-up and the 2010 Roland Garros titlist. Jankovic is a former
No. 1.
In other second-round action involving seeds, rising American Christina McHale
overcame No. 12 Chinese Peng Shuai 5-7, 6-3, 6-2; Czech Petra Cetkovska topped
No. 13 and former top-ranked Serbian star Ana Ivanovic 6-4, 6-4; No. 14
Svetlana Kuznetsova handled fellow Russian Maria Kirilenko 6-4, 6-4; and
American qualifier Varvara Lepchenko upended No. 16 German Julia Goerges 7-6
(7-4), 7-6 (7-5). Kirilenko was a runner-up in Pattaya City last week. The
two-time Grand Slam champion Kuznetsova was the Doha runner-up in 2004 and
2007.
Additional second-round wins came for Romanian Simona Halep, Russian Ksenia
Pervak, Ukrainian qualifier Kateryna Bondarenko and Bulgarian Tsvetana
Pironkova, who cooled off last week's maiden WTA titlist Angelique Kerber 6-4,
6-1. The German Kerber was the champion in Paris last weekend, as she downed
the aforementioned Bartoli in the finale.
The 2012 Doha champion will earn a first prize of $385,000.
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