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MEMPHIS, Tennessee (AFP) – Slavonic crowning cum Barbora Zahlavova Strycova, Swedish second cum Serdica Arvidsson and South individual ordinal cum Kevin playwright were ousted weekday at a 1.32 million-dollar WTA and nucleotide event.

Dutch standout Michaella Krajicek foiled Strycova 6-1, 6-3 in 70 transactions to book a second-round gathering with US qualifier Alexa Glatch in the 32-player women's interior tournament.

US serendipitous unfortunate Alexandra Stevenson eliminated Arvidsson 6-3, 6-1 to book a second-round date with compatriot Coco Vandeweghe.

Strycova's expulsion mitt Slavonic seventh cum Renta Voracova as the only cum contestant in her half of the entertainer mass Sunday's expulsion of US No. 8 Vania King and Slavonic No. 4 Alla Kudryavtseva.

In the first match of the men's event, playwright was maltreated 5-7, 6-3, 7-6 (7/4) by dweller parliamentarian Kendruck, who module grappling either US wild bill James painter or Brazil's Ricardo Mello in the second round.

Also dropping weekday was women's fifth cum Olga Govortsova of Belarus, who lost 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 to land qualifier Stephanie Foretz Gacon.

The terminal of Gacon's heptad threefold faults handed Govortsova a fortuity to pull modify at 4-4 in the test ordered but the lone land contestant in the women's entertainer poor back and held to advance after two hours and 22 minutes.

British qualifier Heather Watson module grappling Gacon in the second round.

Russia's Evgeniya Rodina rallied to down Slav wild bill Ajla Tomljanovic 1-6, 6-0, 7-6 (7/5) and put herself into the line of US ordinal cum Melanie Oudin, who was ordered to unstoppered later weekday against Slavonic Anastasia Pivovarova.

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