Date-Krumm, Muhammed, Granville through in Redding, California

In a tourney with total prize money of US $ 25,000 at "2009 USTA Women's Pro Challenger of Redding" in Redding, California, USA, Japanese Kimiko Date-Krumm, once ranked at WTA 4 and seventh seed here, gave a lesson to young lucky loser of California, Christina Mc Hale and sealed 6-2, 6-3 victory in the opening round. Former tennis queen of Japan Date-Krumm will battle with her junior, Aiko Nakamura who ousted German qualifier Andrea Petkovic 6-3, 5-7, 6-2.

First upset occured when second seed Angelique Kerber of Germany (WTA 115) was beaten by Greek Anna Gerasimou (WTA 200) 5-7, 4-6. Another shock of the day was created by local wild card Asia Muhammed as she edged past eighth seed Tomoko Yonemura of Japan 7-5, 6-3 in the first round. Then the teenager from Las Vegas will play against qualifier and rising star Ajla Tomljanovic from Croatia in the second round. Meanwhile qualifier but experienced Laura Granville from Chicago disposed lucky loser Arina Rodionova, younger sister of Anastasia Rodionova from Russia. Granville had close match but she prevailed 7-6(2), 6-4. Rodionova replaced top seed Anastasia Yakimova who eventually pulled out of the tourney.

Another young American Madison Brengle also advanced in the second round after she won over Aussie qualifier Johanna Konta 6-1, 3-2 retired. The other seeded players such as third seed Stephanie Dubois of Canada, fourth seed Stefanie Voegele of Switzerland, fifth seed Masa Zec-Peskiric from Slovenia, sixth seed Italian Alberta Brianti all moved on to the next round.

Other Asian players like qualifier Shikha Uberopi of India, Yuan Meng of China and Japanese Rika Fujiwara also advanced into the second round.