Serena Williams upset in Rome

ROME, May 5 (UPI) -- American Serena Williams was upset Tuesday by 30-year-old Patty Schnyder of Switzerland in the $2 million Internazionali BNL d'Italia.

World No. 1 Dinara Safina and former top-ranked star Jelena Jankovic were among Tuesday's second-round winners.

Serena, the 2002 champion, lost the first set 6-2, then won the second set 6-2. But Schnyder won all five of her break-point opportunities in the third set to beat the Australian Open and U.S. Open champ.

Safina, the Australian Open and French Open runner-up, defeated France's Virginie Razzano 7-6 (7-1), 6-1. The third-seeded, defending champion Jankovic beat Argentine Gisela Dulko 6-3, 7-6 (8-6).

Jankovic, the U.S. Open runner-up, defeated France's Alize Cornet in last year's Rome finale.

Fifth-seeded French Open champion Ana Ivanovic of Serbia also won Tuesday, taking a 6-3, 6-4 win over Italian Francesca Schiavone. Last week's Stuttgart champ, seventh-seeded Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova, beat Slovakian Daniela Hantuchova 6-3, 6-3.