Molik beaten in Malaysia
02/22/2010 08:06:34 PM
Fourth seed Alisa Kleybanova eased through to the second round of the Malaysian Open with a 6-1 6-4 victory over Australia's Alicia Molik.
The world No.31 was far more potent on her serve than Molik, formerly a top-10 player before being struck down by illness and injury, and she wrapped up the match in an hour and five minutes.
However, fifth seed Melinda Czink crashed out to Yan Zi in a final-set tie-breaker despite having won the opening set 6-3.
Her Chinese opponent took the second 7-5 before prevailing 7-6 (7-5) in the decider in a match that lasted 12 minutes shy of three hours.
Eighth seed Olga Govortsova suffered the same fate, going out to Australian Anastasia Rodionova in a see-saw match.
Rodionova won the first set 6-4 before Govortsova, the world No.51, hit back to win the second 6-0.
Rodionova then defied a rankings gap of 46 to win the decider 7-5 in a match lasting two and a quarter hours.
Bojana Jovanovski beat Vitalia Diatchenko 6-3 6-1, Galina Voskoboeva produced five aces and saw her opponent serve four double faults but she could not take advantage as she went down 7-5 6-4 to Ayumi Morita.