Major Upsets at the 2009 Tokyo Open
September 29, 2009 by Jeanne Dupuis
Filed under Tennis
It was a day of upsets among the female tennis players at the 2009 Tokyo Open . All kinds of top-seeded players were eliminated opening the way for up-and-comers to steal the spotlight.
While Maria Sharapova, who went into the event unseeded, managed to make it to the next round, big names like top-seeded defending champion Dinara Safina, second-seeded Venus Williams and Svetlana Kuznetsova were sent packing.
image: Zuma Press
Safina lost her match against qualifier Kai-Chen Chang (pictured celebrating above) 7-6 (7-5), 4-6, 7-5 which lasted 2 hours and 44 minutes. Wow!
Meanwhile, Williams couldn’t get past yet another qualifier, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and lost 7-6 (8-6), 7-5 in just under two hours.
A third qualifier, Andrea Petkovic, took down fifth-seeded Kuznetsova 7-5, 4-6, 6-3.
Wow. What a day! It will be interesting to see who emerges from the event with the title!
