U.S. Open – Women: Ivanovic crashes out
World number one Ana Ivanovic was knocked out of the US Open in the second round when she was beaten 6-3 4-6 6-3 by French qualifier Julie Coin.
Ivanovic suffered the earliest exit by a women’s top seed at the U.S. Open since tennis turned professional in 1968.
The world number one never found her groove against a player ranked 188th in the world, double faulting at key moments and repeatedly netting easy shots or hitting them long.
Ivanovic made a shaky start and was broken in the seventh game by Coin who was on the aggressive from the start, pushing forward to the net. Ivanovic saved two break points but then double faulted on the third to go down 3-4 in the first set.
She showed flashes of form to take the second set but lost the match by hitting a forehand wide.
Former world number one Amelie Mauresmo had to pull herself out of a hole to beat Estonian Kaia Kanepi 2-6 6-4 6-0.
The two-times grand-slam champion, seeded 32nd, trailed world number 43 Kanepi by a set and a break but rallied to set up a third-round clash with compatriot Coin.
Kanepi, a quarter-finalist at the French Open earlier this summer, looked on course for an upset when she eased through the first set and broke in the opening game of the second.
But Mauresmo, trying to climb back up the rankings after an injury-hit year, broke back immediately and after edging the second set she stormed through the decider to book her place in the third round.
Earlier in the day Russian sixth seed Dinara Safina overcame a couple of concentration lapses to defeat Italy’s Roberta Vinci 6-4 6-3.
Safina established a 3-0 lead in the opening set and a 3-1 advantage in the second but each time seemed to lose her focus, allowing a scrambling Vinci to break back and threaten a fightback.
However, Safina averted the danger by outclassing Vinci with her powerful serves and searing groundstrokes.
The Russian, who has a 17-1 win-loss record since Wimbledon, will next face Switzerland’s Timea Bacsinszky.
Venus Williams eased into the third round by demolishing Rossana De Los Rios of Paraguay 6-0 6-3 despite a lacklustre performance sprinkled with unforced errors.
Williams, the US Open winner in 2000 and 2001, did not get much of a workout in the 59-minute match against the 113-ranked De Los Rios, 32, who has never gone beyond the second round at Flushing Meadows.
The 28-year-old seventh seed, who won her fifth Wimbledon singles title in July, made 17 unforced errors and squandered four match points on her serve at 5-3 up before finally claiming victory on the fifth.
In the third round, Williams will meet Alona Bondarenko of Ukraine, the 27th seed who defeated Sabine Lisicki of Germany in three sets.
Polish ninth seed Agnieszka Radwanska also breezed through into the third round beating Mariana Duque Marino 6-0 7-6 (3). She will now face Dominika Cibulkokva, after the Slovak beat Ioana Raluca Olaru 6-2 6-2.
Among those to fall on day four included Hungarian 13th Agnes Szavay and Czech Nicole Vaidisova, seeded 20th. Italy’s Tathiana Garbin beat Szavay 5-7 6-2 6-3 and Severine Bremond of France secured a 7-5 6-3 win over Vaidisova.
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