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Roddick Loses, Wozniacki Wins in China

Updated Oct 4, 2011 1:10 AM ET

BEIJING

Andy Rod­dick was elim­i­nated in the first round of the China Open Mon­day, falling to South Africa’s Kevin Ander­son 6–4, 7–5, while Car­o­line Woz­ni­acki ral­lied from a set down to beat Lucie Hradecka of the Czech Repub­lic 3–6, 6–0, 7–5.

Rod­dick man­aged to han­dle Anderson’s huge serve, but the sixth-seeded Amer­i­can strug­gled with his own and was bro­ken in the sev­enth game to go one set down.

The sec­ond set brought more of the same, and while Rod­dick evened things up at 5–5, Anderson’s momen­tum car­ried him through to the win.

”If I break twice and don’t win a set, that says my serve isn’t on,” Rod­dick said. ”It’s unacceptable.”

The 29-year-old Roddick’s world rank­ing has slipped to 15th after sev­eral early-round losses this year. But the 2003 U.S. Open cham­pion responded tetchily when asked in his news con­fer­ence on Mon­day how close he might be to retiring.

Rod­dick rolled his eyes before reply­ing: ”I think you should retire.” He then got up and left the news con­fer­ence, to a round of applause.

Top-ranked Woz­ni­acki strug­gled at the start against another big-serving oppo­nent, with Hradecka scor­ing nine aces to the Dane’s two. But Woz­ni­acki improved in the sec­ond set as the unseeded Hradecka’s first serves increas­ingly hit the net, sav­ing eight of 12 break points for the match.

”It wasn’t a pretty match, but I’m through and that’s what’s most impor­tant,” said Woz­ni­acki, the defend­ing champion.

Third-seeded Klara Zakopalova of the Czech Repub­lic defeated Nadia Petrova of Rus­sia 6–3, 6–7 (3), 6–1, while Maria Kir­ilenko of Rus­sia beat Julia Goerges of Ger­many 7–6 (9), 6–3.

Also, wild-card entry Zheng Jie of China out­lasted Alberta Bri­anti of Italy 4–6, 6–1, 7–5, qual­i­fier Vir­ginie Raz­zano of France defeated Gisela Dulko of Argentina 6–2, 6–3, and Tamira Paszek of Aus­tria beat Petra Cetkovska of the Czech Repub­lic 1–6, 6–4, 6–2.

Unseeded Ana Ivanovic of Ser­bia dis­missed Russia’s Svet­lana Kuznetsova, 6–2, 6–3 and Italy’s Flavia Pen­netta defeated China’s Peng Shuai, 7–6 (6), 7–5.

In the men’s tour­na­ment, Marin Cilic of Croa­tia defeated Chi­nese wild card Di Wu 6–2, 6–0, Feli­ciano Lopez of Spain beat Marsel Ilhan of Turkey 6–2, 7–6 (6), Fer­nando Ver­dasco of Spain downed Michael Llo­dra of France 6–2, 6–4, Flo­rian Mayer of Ger­many beat Albert Ramos of Spain 6–2, 6–4, and Flavio Cipolla of Italy defeated Alexandr Dol­go­polov of Ukraine, 6–1, 1–6, 6–0.

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