From "Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital Tennis Classic" with total prize money of US $ 50,000 in Ashland, Kentucky, the main draw's matches continued yesterday. Indonesian number one player, Sandy Gumulya could not perform her best and bowed out to Portuguese Neuza Silva, 1-6, 3-6 in first round.
It was certainly not a good start for Gumulya in her US tour. Up next she will play another 50K in Troy, Alabama where she is secured already in the main draw together with Romana Tedjakusuma.
Other results were the early exit of two seeded players. Third seeded Olga Puchkova of Russia lost to 19 years old Lauren Albanese from USA, 2-6, 0-6. Puchkova, a resident of Florida, looked promising last year when she reached highest ranking of her career at WTA 32. Since then, she has been really struggling to keep up her form and now she is at WTA 120. She is now 13-23 for the season. Another casualty was seventh seeded Abigail Spears of USA who lost to local wild card Mallory Cecil 6-2, 4-6, 5-7.
Red hot favorite is second seeded Julie Ditty of USA, daughter of the tournament director here. Ditty is fresh from claiming the title at Albuquerque 75K in New Mexico last week end. Currently ranked at WTA 98, in the first round Ditty survived the scare and won 7-6(3), 7-6(2) over Sunitha Rao of India. Former 1999 Wimbledon semi-finalist, Alexandra Stevenson faced the reality of losing to up and coming Madison Brengle of USA who had to go through qualifying round first. This 18 years old Dover resident clinched her 7-6(3), 6-4 victory over 27 years old Stevenson.
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