Schnyder Wins Budapest Opener; Cornet Ousted
POSTED: 3:07 pm EDT July 8,
2009
Budapest, Hungary -- (Sports Network) - Top-seeded Swiss Patty Schnyder was a first-round winner, while defending champion Alize Cornet came up a second- round loser Wednesday at the $220,000 GDF Suez Grand Prix tennis tournament.Schnyder handled German Andrea Petkovic 7-6 (7-3), 6-3 on the red clay at Romai Tennis Academy. Schnyder's second-round opponent on Thursday will be Italian Maria Elena Camerin. The French Cornet was drilled by Israeli Shahar Peer 6-2, 6-0 on Day 3. Cornet beat Slovenian Andreja Klepac in last year's finale here. Another second-round upset came when Romanian Edina Gallovits took out third- seeded Austrian Sybille Bammer 4-6, 7-5, 6-2, while sixth-seeded Ukrainian Alona Bondarenko avoided an upset by leveling Romania's Ioana Raluca Olaru 6-4, 4-6, 6-4. Bondarenko will face Peer in the quarterfinals. One other second-rounder saw Croatian qualifier Petra Martic maul Ukrainian Mariya Koryttseva 6-3, 6-2. Martic will meet Gallovits in the round of eight. The 2009 Budapest champion will collect $37,000.
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