This week is the prestigious and important Rogers
Cup, classed as a WTA premier event and a ATP masters 1000 event.
Starting with the mens matches and there was disappointing early
exits in the first round by a couple players. Young Aussie Bernard
Tomic was edged out in a three setter by German Florian Mayer
75 36 36. At Wimbledon this year Tomic beat two top 20 players on
his way to the forth round so losing to a player ranked 47 is
understandably going to be disappointing for him. Only one seed has
fallen so sar which was 16th seed Tipsarevic. The Serbians
form has been poor recently with earlier than expected exits at
Wimbledon, Bogota and Gstaad. He was beaten 64 63 by Uzbekistan’s
Dennis Istomin. Finally 9th seed Kai Nishikori had a tough
three set encounter against local qualifier Polansky winning
46 64 62.
In the women's half there was further
disappointment for the Brits, after Heather Watson early exit
in qualifying, Laura Robson has now withdrawn. The reason for
the withdrawal is due to a wrist injury. There was a lot of close
matches in the women's opening day with 6 out of the 11 being three
setters. Following last week surprised early exit in America Sloane
Stephens has a more encouraging match winning 6276 against
France's Kristina Miladenovic. Mona Barthel had a much more
harder match against Zheng from china. The German edged to a
67 63 76 win. Barthel wasn't the only one to find it hard, 10th seed
Roberta Vinci had to recovered from a set down to beat Julia
Gorges 26 64 63.
for a full list of
results go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/mens-singles/results
and http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/womens-singles/results
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