Friday, August 28, 2009

[tennis] Pilot Pen Open: Both Top Seeds Lose In Quarters

The top seeds Nikolay Davydenko and Svetlana Kuznetsova both lost their matches in the quarter finals of the Pilot Pen Open tennis tournament in New Haven. Davydenko lost to 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 to Sam Querrey. The American, who defeated Andy Roddick last week in Cincinnati masters, continued his class performance this week too and will face Jose Acasuso who defeated Florent Serra 7-5, 6-4. Second seed Fernando Verdasco reached the semifinal defeating Jurgen Melzer 6-3, 6-1 and will face Igor Andreev. The Russian defeated Leonardo Mayer 6-4, 6-7(4), 6-3.
In women's section, Kuznetsova lost to former world no 1 Amelie Mauresmo 6-7(9), 6-2, 3-6. Mauresmo will now face Elena Vesnina who defeated Ana Chakvetadze 6-1,7-5. Defending champion and second seed Caroline Wozniacki will face third seed Flavia Penneta  in the other semifinal. Caroline defeated Verginie Razzano 6-4, 6-3 and Pennetta got the better of Magdalena Ryberikova 6-2, 6-2.

semifinal line up:
men's:
Sam Querrey vs Jose Acusaso   H2H: 1-0
Fernando Verdasco vs Igor Andreev   H2H: 3-1

women's:
Amelie Mauresmo vs Elena Vesnina   H2H: 1-0
Caroline Wozniacki vs Flavia Pennetta    H2H: 1-0

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