Tamarine, Noppawan fall by the wayside
Tamarine Tanasugarn hopes to redeem her pride in the doubles after losing her singles match in the first round of the US Open to 31st seed Kaia Kanepi of Estonia 6-4 6-3 on Tuesday.
The loss to Kanepi extended her miserable run in New York where she never went beyond the first round of the main draw since making it to the fourth round in 2003.
The Thai, however, is still alive in the doubles event as she and Marina Erakovic of New Zealand play Urszula Radwanska of Poland and Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium. The ThaiKiwi duo reached their first Major semifinals together at Wimbledon this year. Another Thai Noppawan Lertcheewakarn lost her match to Anastasiya Yakimova of Belarus 60 46 63.
Meanwhile in Bangkok, Peerakiat Siriluethaiwattana lost to fifthseeded CedrikMarcel Stebe of Germany 64 64 in the second round of the US$50,000 ChangSat Bangkok Open at the Rama Gardens Hotel in Bangkok.
Former world No 5 and second seeded Rainer Schuettler of Germany was ousted by Harri Heliovaara of Finland 46 64 76 (74). Elsewhere, Konstantin Kravchuk of Russia beat PierreLudovic Duclos 76 (75) 64 while Erik Chvojka of Canada beat Lufovic Walter of France 67 (37) 63 62.
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