Beware of Coco: Vandeweghe upsets Bartoli in Monterrey
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American Coco Vandeweghe ousted second- seeded Frenchwoman Marion Bartoli in the first round of the $235,000 Monterrey Open on Tuesday.
Vandeweghe broke the former champ's serve eight times and ripped 11 aces to come away with a 4-6, 6-3, 6-1 victory on the hardcourts at Sierra Madre Tennis Club. Bartoli captured this event in 2009.
The other top players cruised in their matches.
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German Angelique Kerber played like the top seed as she disposed of American Samantha Crawford, 6-3, 6-3.
Third-seeded Russian Maria Kirilenko defeated Mexico's Ximena Hermoso, 7-5, 6-1, and fourth-seeded Serbian Ana Ivanovic bageled Russian Marta Sirotkina 6-0, 6-0 in a scant 45 minutes.
Fifth-seeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, who won this title in 2010 and 2011, was trailing fellow Russian Nina Bratchikova, 4-2, in the first set on Monday when play was suspended for rain. Pavlyuchenkova recovered quite nicely, winning all 10 games played on Tuesday en route to a 6-4, 6-0 victory.
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Eighth-seeded Ayumi Morita of Japan also leveled Slovak Jana Cepelova 6-0, 6-1.
Additional opening-round wins came for American Lauren Davis, Russian qualifier Alla Kudryavtseva, Serbian qualifier Jovana Jaksic and Croats Donna Vekic and qualifier Tereza Mrdeza.
This week's Monterrey champ will collect $40,000.