Doubles first round underway at the Internatzional BNL D'Italia
INTERNAZIONALI BNL D'ITALIA Rome, Italy May 9-15, 2011 $2,050,000/Premier Red Clay/Outdoors
In the most intriguing contest involving unseeded teams, Daniela Hantuchova and Agnieszka Radwanska disposed of Casey Dellacqua and Rennae Stubbs, 60 63. They had never played together before this year, yet already have a title in Miami and a semifinal showing in Indian Wells to show for their efforts.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Singles - Second Round (2) Francesca Schiavone (ITA) d. (Q) Christina McHale (USA) 63 61 (7) Maria Sharapova (RUS) d. Ekaterina Makarova (RUS) 61 61
Singles - First Round (10) Shahar Peer (ISR) d. Bojana Jovanovski (SRB) 36 60 64 (12) Andrea Petkovic (GER) d. Maria Kirilenko (RUS) 75 61 (WC) Romina Oprandi (ITA) d. (14) Kaia Kanepi (EST) 75 36 61 (16) Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) d. (Q) Chanelle Scheepers (RSA) 63 75 Lucie Safarova (CZE) d. Kimiko Date-Krumm (JPN) 75 62 Sara Errani (ITA) d. Roberta Vinci (ITA) 62 10 ret. (right ankle injury) (Q) Anastasia Rodionova (AUS) d. Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ) 64 64 (WC) Alberta Brianti (ITA) d. (LL) Zheng Jie (CHN) 64 75
Doubles - Second Round (3) King/Shvedova (USA/KAZ) d. (WC) Burnett/Kulikova (ITA/RUS) 63 60
Doubles - First Round (7) Benesova/Zahlavova Strycova (CZE/CZE) d. Llagostera Vives/Parra Santonja (ESP/ESP) 62 62 (8) Martínez Sánchez/Medina Garrigues (ESP/ESP) d. Hsieh/Yan (TPE/CHN) 64 62 Hantuchova/Radwanska (SVK/POL) d. Dellacqua/Stubbs (AUS/AUS) 60 63 Dushevina/Poutchek (RUS/BLR) d. K.Bondarenko/Kudryavtseva (UKR/RUS) 62 62 Peng/Zheng (CHN/CHN) d. Grandin/Uhlirova (RSA/CZE) 62 64 Dulgheru/Gajdosova (ROU/AUS) d. Chuang/Govortsova (TPE/BLR) 75 62 Petrova/Rodionova (RUS/AUS) d. Daniilidou/Woehr (GRE/GER) 63 36 104
