The first round of the US Open did bring about a few major surprises. The most important being the loss of former world no 1 Ana Ivanovic in the women's section. However a players who were expected to be going for a few more rounds were shown the door in both categories. Following is the list of the seeded and famous players who were shown the exit door (all the matches may not be termed as setbacks).
First Round Exit:
Men's:
Victor Hansecu, 28 (John Isner)
Paul Henry Mathieu, 26 (Mikhail Youzhny)
Dmitry Tursunov (Marc Gicquel)
Igor Kunyitsin (Olivier Rochus)
Dudi Sela (Kevin Kim)
Ivo Karlovic, 27 (Ivan Navarro)
Stanislas Warwinka, 19 (Nicolas Lapenti)
Igor Andreev, 29 (Jesse Witten)
Janko Tipsarevic (Florent Serra)
Nicolas Massu (Fernando Gonzalez, 11)
Juan Monaco (Juan Martin Del Potro, 6)
Marat Safin (Jurgen Melzer)
Jeremy Chardy (Gael Monfils, 13)
Women's:
Vera Dushevina (Venus Williams, 3)
Kaia Kanepi, 25 (Kai-Chen Chang)
Sybille Balmer, 28 (Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez)
Jelena Dokic (Kirsten Flipkens)
Ai Sugiyama (Samantha Stosur, 15)
Ana Ivanovic, 11 (Katerina Bondarenko) : 6-2, 3-6, 6-7 (7-9)
Alisa Kleybanova, 27 (Petra Kvitova)
Virginie Razzanno, 16 (Yanina Wickmayer)
Agnes Szavay, 32 (Sahar Peer)
** The numbers after the players denote their seeding in this US Open. The names in the parentheses are the players who defeated the previous player.
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