Isner, Tsonga win second-round matches Isner, Tsonga win second-round matches ADVERTISING WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Defending champion John Isner and top seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France both won Tuesday in the second round of the Winston-Salem Open. The third-seeded Isner, the
Isner, Tsonga win second-round matches
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Defending champion John Isner and top seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France both won Tuesday in the second round of the Winston-Salem Open.
The third-seeded Isner, the highest-ranked American (10th) in the world rankings, was pushed to three sets before beating Slovakia’s Martin Klizan 4-6, 6-3, 7-5.
Tsonga, the highest-ranked player (sixth) in the final hard-court tournament before the U.S. Open, beat Brazil’s Thomaz Bellucci 6-3, 7-6 (7-2).
Isner will next face 13th-seeded Jurgen Melzer of Austria, who fought off a challenge from 303rd-ranked qualifier Michael McClune to win 6-2, 2-6, 7-6 (12-10).
Tsonga will next play qualifier Sergiy Stakhovsky of the Ukraine, who upset 15th-seeded Pablo Andujar of Spain 6-2, 6-3.
Shoulder injury
forces Radwanska
out of New Haven
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Agnieszka Radwanska expects to play in the U.S. Open.
But after retiring from the New Haven Open on Tuesday with nagging shoulder injury, the world’s second-ranked player acknowledged she’s not sure how that will affect her play.
The top seed at New Haven, who received a bye in the first round, dropped the opening set 6-0 and was down 2-1 and a break in the second set when she ended her second-round match with qualifier Olga Govortsova.
Earlier, Marion Bartoli of France rallied from 3-0 down in the third set to reel off the next six games and beat 19-year-old American Sloan Stephens.
The fifth-seeded Bartoli had lost nine straight games before finding her groundstrokes and overpowering the 19-year-old Stephens 6-1, 0-6, 6-3.
Bartoli will face fourth-seeded Sara Errani of Italy in the quarters. Errani beat Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain in straight sets 6-4, 6-3 in the second round.
Tennis referee arrested in
LA death of husband
LOS ANGELES — A professional tennis referee from Los Angeles who for years has officiated matches between the game’s top players was arrested Tuesday in New York City on a felony warrant charging her with killing her elderly husband in April.
Prosecutors said 70-year-old Lois Ann Goodman, a longtime line judge on the tennis circuit, was taken into custody as she prepared to work at the U.S. Open tournament.
She was charged with murdering her 80-year-old husband, Alan Goodman, in their home in Woodland Hills, Calif. Prosecutors allege she bludgeoned him to death with a coffee mug on April 17.
If convicted, she could be sentenced to life in prison.
Wickmayer falters
at Texas Tennis Open
GRAPEVINE, Texas — No. 4 seed Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium lost to Casey Dellacqua of Australia 6-4, 6-3 in the second round of the Texas Tennis Open on Tuesday.
The hard-court tournament serves as a warmup event for next week’s U.S. Open.
In other second-round matches, No. 3 seed Roberta Vinci of Italy beat Polona Hercog of Slovenia 6-2, 6-3; No. 6 seed Peng Shuai of China defeated Pauline Parmentier of France 6-4, 6-2; Aleksandra Wozniak of Canada ousted Eugenie Bouchard of Canada 6-2, 6-2 and Bojana Jovanoski of Serbia topped Mirjana Lucico of Croatia 7-6 (5), 6-2.
Wozniak will play Dellacqua today.
By wire sources
