Mobile UPI  |   About UPI  |   UPI en Español  |   UPI Arabic  |   UPIU  |   My Account
Search:
Go

Sports News

Radwanska, Cornet advance in France

|
|
 
  
Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska, shown at the U.S. Open Sept. 1, 2008. (UPI Photo/Monika Graff) 
License photo
Published: Feb. 10, 2009 at 6:48 PM

PARIS, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland and Frenchwoman Alize Cornet were first-round winners Tuesday in the Open GDF Suez tennis tournament in Paris.

Radwanska, seeded No. 4, rolled over Oxana Lyubtsova, a Ukrainian qualifier, 6-1, 6-1.

The fifth-seeded Cornet also posted a decisive victory, defeating Latvian qualifier Anastasija Sevastova 6-1, 6-3.

Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia, a qualifier, turned back Ekaterina Makarova of Russia 6-2, 6-2, and Emilie Loit of France, another qualifier, eliminated Czech Nicole Vaidisova 6-1, 6-4.

Other winners included Alisa Klebanova of Russia, Nathalie Dechy of France, Monica Niculescu of Romania and Croatian Karolina Sprem.

The tournament's top seed, world No. 1 Serena Williams of the United States, plays her first-round match Wednesday against Czech Iveta Benesova.

Topics: Nicole Vaidisova
© 2009 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
  
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
Linsanity The Daytona 500 Cheerleaders of 2012
Additional Sports News Stories
1 of 27
Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego wins Finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee
View Caption
Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego, California watches confetti rain down as she wins the two-day Scripps National Spelling Bee championship, May 31, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Nandipati successfully spelled the word .* guetapens *, meaning to lure or ambush. UPI/Mike Theiler
fark
Iowa school superintendent abruptly resigns after they learn she was using her work email to conduct...
New radio-transmission analysis provides credible evidence that Amelia Earhart landed on small Pacific...
Although it is wildly amusing in movies, in real life nobody laughs when you drive off with a baby...
One advantage of going sleep drunk
Chicago Fark Party - 9 June - New bat time, new bat channel
Noted astrophysicist, theoretical astronomer, and Wu-Tang rapper GZA working on new Space-themed...