Caroline Wozniacki became third top-six seed to bow out. PHOTO: AFP
Danish top seed Caroline Wozniacki slumped to a shock 6-4, 6-2 defeat to 60th-ranked Varvara Lepchenko in her opening match of the WTA Tour’s Stanford tournament on Thursday.
World number five Wozniacki was kicking off her US hardcourt campaign in her first match since playing Wimbledon last month.
After dropping the first set against Lepchenko, Wozniacki lost her serve twice early in the second and fell behind 4-1 before losing the set 6-2. Polish second seed Agnieszka Radwanska outlasted Japan’s Misaki Doi 1-6, 6-2, 6-0 to reach a last-eight matchup against German fifth seed Angelique Kerber, who downed Croatian Ana Konjuh 6-4, 6-3.
Czech fourth seed Karolina Pliskova, who advanced 7-5, 6-2 over Japan’s Kimiko Date-Krumm, will meet Croatian Ajla Tomljanovic in the quarter-finals. The other quarter-final will be between American Alison Riske and Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 8th, 2015.
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