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Alize Cornet loses

ROME: French teenager Alize Cornet, a runner-up in Rome last year, was knocked out in the second round of the Italian Open on Tuesday.

Cornet, the 13th seed, lost 6-4, 6-1 to Kateryna Bondarenko. Bondarenko, a 22-year-old Ukrainian, is ranked 61 in the world.

That match was the only one to be completed at the Foro Italico before a rain storm forced a suspension of play.

In Oeiras, Portugal, third-seeded David Ferrer won 16 points in a row as he recovered from a weak start to beat Daniel Gimeno-Traver 6-4, 6-1 in the first round of the Estoril Open.

Gimeno-Traver, targetting Ferrer’s weak backhand, twice broke his opponent to take a 3-0 lead in the opening set. But the 14th-ranked Ferrer won four games in a row in a powerful fightback that gave him his first match victory at the outdoor clay-court event.

In the women’s event, Sabrine Lisicki, seeded fourth, triumphed 6-2, 6-2 over Kirsten Flipkens, while seventh-seeded Shahar Peer rallied to beat local favourite Michelle Larcher de Brito 4-6, 6-0, 6-0.

The results:

At Rome (WTA Italian Open): Second round: Kateryna Bondarenko bt Alizé Cornet 6-4, 6-1.

At Estoril (Estoril Open): Men: First round: Gilles Simon bt Robert Kendrick 6-3, 7-6(7); Mardy Fish bt Teimuraz Gabashvili 6-3, 6-4; Marc Gicquel bt Pablo Andujar 7-6(6), 6-4; Oscar Hernandez bt Rui Machado 7-5, 1-6, 7-5; David Ferrer bt Daniel Gimeno-Traver 6-4, 6-1;Albert Montanes bt Ryan Sweeting 6-1, 7-6(4); Florent Serra bt Diego Junqueira 6-4, 2-6, 6-3.

Women: First round: Sabine Lisicki bt Kirsten Flipkens 6-2, 6-2; Ekaterina Makarova bt Petra Cetkovska 6-4, 6-3; Shahar Peer bt Michelle Larcher de Brito 4-6, 6-0, 6-0; Elena Bovina bt Alla Kudryavtseva 6-1, 6-3; Maret Ani bt Frederica Piedade 6-0, 7-6(4); Ma Emilia Salerni bt Julie Coin 6-4, 6-4.

At Munich (BMW Open): First round: Marin Cilic bt Dietar Kindlmann 6-3, 6-2; Thiemo de Bakker bt Rainer Schuettler 6-3, 6-3; Paul-Henri Mathieu bt Lamine Ouahab 6-3, 6-2; Denis Gremelmayr bt Martin Vassallo Arguello 5-1 retired.

At Belgrade (Serbia Open): First round: Arnaud Clement bt Steve Darcis 6-1, 6-4; Christophe Rochus bt Nicolas Devilder 6-3, 6-7(7), 7-5; Marcel Granollers bt Filip Krajinovic 6-0, 2-6, 6-2; Marcos Daniel bt Guillermo Canas 3-6, 6-1, 6-4. — Agencies

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