MELBOURNE, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- Second-seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova and three other Top 10 players collected straight-set wins Thursday in second-round play at the Australian Open.
But the final score didn't suggest Kuznetsova's problems in playing Tsvetana Pironkova. Kuznetsova faced a set point in the first set but that seemed to bring her game around. She rallied to force a tie-breaker -- winning that without losing a point -- and lost two games in a 29-minute second set in closing out Pironkova 7-6 (7-0), 6-2.