Only the second day of the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships is in progress, and we have already seen many interesting results.
The latest one saw the seventh seed Svetlana Kuznetsova falling to fellow Russian Elena Vesnina, failing to win even one game in the deciding set. Final score of this second-round match was 6-4 3-6 6-0.
Vesnina had defeated China’s Li Na in the first round, in three sets, too: 1-6 6-4 6-4.
The second day of the tournament is not over yet, but ninth seed Agnieszka Radwanska and 15th seed Anna Chakvetadze said goodbye in the first round. Agnieszka lost to her sister Urszula Radwanska 6-4 6-3, while Anna lost to world No.74 Ayumi Morita 7-5 6-2. Morita is the lucky loser who entered the tournament with Israeli Shahar Peer being denied a visa for the United Arab Emirates.
No other seeds have fallen on day 2 yet, although one interesting matchup is in progress at the moment. Ana Ivanovic is playing Alisa Kleybanova, the Russian who upset herin the Australian Open third round last month.
Let’s also mention that Agnes Szavay and Maria Kirilenko lost in the first round yet again. Their defeats happened on day 1, on Sunday.
Wow, talk about Russian players going different directions, Chakvetadze and Kirilenko slides continue and we are witnessing the rise of Vesnina. That win over Ms. Wozniacki in Auckland was not a fluke.
Anna should get a new coach. Kirilenko should get a real coach, I just don’t like when parents are the coaches.