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Gisela Dulko wins Bogota opener
Gisela Dulko wins Bogota opener
Gisela Dulko beat Mathilde Johansson 6-4, 6-4 at the Copa Colsanitas tennis event in Bogota. Dulko was last year’s Bogota runner-up to Spain’s Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez. She next faces Edina Gallovits.
Ukrainian qualifier Khrystyna Antoniychuk ousted second-seeded Spaniard Carla Suarez Navarro 6-1, 6-4 on Tuesday, while wild card and veteran Colombian crowd favorite Catalina Castano cut down fourth-seeded Slovenian Polona Hercog 7-5, 6-2.
Seventh-seeded Czech Klara Zakopalova avoided an upset by coming from behind to down American Lauren Albanese 4-6, 7-6 (7-2), 6-1.
Additional Day-2 wins came for Ukrainian Mariya Koryttseva, Colombia’s Mariana Duque Marino, France’s Pauline Parmentier, Paraguay’s Rossana de los Rios, Austria’s Patricia Mayr and Spaniard Silvia Soler Espinosa.
WTA Copa Colsanitas Bogota Preview
WTA Copa Colsanitas Bogota Preview
The Latin American swing kicks off this week with the XVIII Copa BBVA Colsanitas, and headlining the draw is the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour’s No.1 South American player, Gisela Dulko.
Dulko, currently ranked No.35 in the world, has enjoyed a solid start to 2010, most notably upsetting Ana Ivanovic en route to the third round of the Australian Open. She has also done nicely at this tournament in the past, her 7-3 record including a run to the finals here last year (where she was a runner-up to María José Martínez Sánchez). The No.1 seed this year, she will take on France’s Mathilde Johansson in her first round match.
The only other South American currently in the Top 100 is No.99 Rossana de los Ríos of Paraguay (who is also here but unseeded).
Spanish rising star Carla Suárez Navarro is the No.2 seed. Suárez Navarro, who in her green career has already been to two major quarterfinals – the 2008 French Open and the 2009 Australian Open – opens against a qualifier.
Check out the draws from Dubai, Memphis and Bogotá right now!
Rounding out the seeds are Sara Errani, Polona Hercog, Angelique Kerber, Sandra Zahlavova, Klara Zakopalova and Arantxa Parra Santonja.
