Luxembourg, Luxembourg (SportsNetwork.com) - Second seed Alize Cornet came up a second-round loser Wednesday at the Luxembourg Open tennis event.
Dutchwoman Kiki Bertens took out the French Cornet 6-2, 6-3 at CK Sports Center Kockelscheuer.
Fourth-seeded Czech Barbora Zahlavova Strycova avoided an upset by handling Belgian Alison Van Uytvanck 6-4, 7-6 (7-1), while fifth-seeded American Varvara Lepchenko advanced by tackling Slovak Jana Cepelova 6-2, 6-2.
Other upsets came when German Annika Beck vanquished sixth-seeded Italian Roberta Vinci 7-5, 6-0 and German Mona Barthel drove out eighth-seeded Romanian Monica Niculescu 0-6, 7-5, 6-3. Beck was last year's Luxembourg runner-up to former world No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki.
Also on Day 3, Austrian Patricia Mayr-Achleitner dismissed France's Pauline Parmentier 6-1, 7-5 and Swede Johanna Larsson came back to best Slovenian Polona Hercog 6-7 (8-10), 7-5, 6-1.
The 2014 Luxembourg titlist will collect $43,000.
