Upsets continue at Pan Pacific Open

TOKYO, Sept. 29 (UPI) -- No. 3-seeded Elena Dementieva was defeated Tuesday at Tokyo's $2 million Pan Pacific Open, which has lost its top six seeds in second-round play.

Top seeds Dinara Safina and Venus Williams were among upset victims in Monday's play while Dementieva, No. 4-seeded Carolina Wozniacki and sixth-seeded Vera Zvonareva were out of the draw by the end of play Tuesday.

Dementieva was defeated 6-2, 6-7 (3-7), 6-1 by qualifier Kateryna Bondarenko. She hurt her chances with 11 double faults and Bondarenko cashed in eight service breaks.

Wozniacki was trailing Aleksandra Wozniak 0-5 in the first set when she retired due to illness and Zvonareva was beaten 3-6, 6-4, 6-2 by Alisa Kleybanova.

The series of upsets left No. 7 Jelena Jankovic the highest seed remaining but she also had trouble advancing. She was pushed to a third set before prevailing 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 over Sabine Lisicki.

Also advancing was eighth-seeded Victoria Azarenka, who beat Zheng Jie 6-1, 6-1. But in other upsets, Maria Sharapova blitzed 12th-seeded Samantha Stosur 6-0, 6-1 in 57 minutes and No. 13-seeded Nadia Petrova was knocked out, losing 6-2, 6-2 to Magdalena Rybarikova.

In matches involving other seeded players: No. 11-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska held off Daniela Hantuchova 6-3, 3-6, 6-3; 14th-seeded Marion Bartoli posted a 6-4, 6-2 win against Aravane Rezai; and 15th-seeded Li Na notched a 7-5, 6-0 victory over Vera Dushevina.

Also winning Tuesday were Elena Vesnina, Iveta Benesova and Lucie Safarova.