[tennis] Safina, Venus Falls in Toronto

The number of surprises in the women's tennis series seems to increase every week. After a surprising week at Cincinnati now in Toronto the upsets continue. And the latest to fall was the top seed Dinara Safina. Safina lost her second round match to Aravane Rezai 3-6, 6-2, 6-4.

Earlier third seed Venus Williams lost in the second round to Kateryna Bondarenko 1-6, 7-5, 6-4. In the next match, sixth seed Svetlana Kuznetsova lost to Samantha Stosur 6-4, 6-3.

Among others who made their exit in the second round were Ana Ivanovic(11), Victoria Azarenka(9), Flavia Pennetta(12), Caroline Wozniacki(8) and Dominika Cibulkova(16).

Earlier Nadia Petrova(10), Marion Bartoli(13), Amelie Mauresmo(15) and Daniela Hantuchova lost their first round matches.

Only five of the 16 seeded players survived till the third round.