In the biggest surprise of the US Open so far, top seed Dinara Safina lost her third round match to Petra Kvitova 4-6, 6-2, 6-7 (5). Safina who survived scare in the previous two rounds could not get through this time and her loss in the Grand Slam will again provoke the debate about the ranking system of tennis. Sharapova also lost her third round match to Melanie Oudin. The Women's section has already seen 14 of the seeded players getting ousted in the first two rounds and the tradition continued in the third round too.
Following is the complete list of the players ousted in the third round (seeded player are in bold)
Third Round Exits in Women:
Magdalena Ryberikova (Venus Williams, 3)
Vania King (Daniela Hantuchova, 22)
Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez (Serena Williams, 2)
Kirsten Flipkens (Kim Clijsters)
Aleksandra Wozniack (Flavia Pennetta, 10)
Victoria Azarenka, 8 (Francesca Schiavone, 26): 4-6, 6-2, 6-2
Maria Kirilenko (Na Li, 18)
Elena Vesnina, 31 (Vera Zvonareva, 7)
Maria Sharaopova, 29 (Melanie Oudin): 3-6, 6-4, 7-5
Dinara Safina, 1 (Petra Kvitova): 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (5)
Jie Jheng, 21 (Nadia Petrova, 13)
Sorana Cirstea, 24 (Caroline Wozniacki, 9)
Sahar Peer (Svetlana Kuznetsova, 6)
Sara Errani (Yanina Wickmayer)
Yaroslava Shvedova (Gisela Dulko)
Anastasia Radionova (Katerina Bondarenko)
**only 7 of top 16 seeds are in the las 16 round of US Open.
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