Mandula overwhelms Dokic
It's age that counts over experience, sometimes. Petra Mandula relied on her greater experience to send a second seed in as many days crashing out of the Dubai Duty Free Women's Open at the Dubai Tennis Stadium yesterday.
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Hungary's Petra Mandula in action. ©Gulf News
Singles: Ai Sugiyama bt Lina Krasnoroutskaya 6-2, 6-3; Selima Sfar bt Tamarine Tanasugarn 6-4, 4-0 (retd.); Meghann Shaughnessy bt Aniko Kapros 6-1, 6-2; Magui Serna bt Vera Douchevina 6-4, 6-4; Maria Elena Camerin bt Elena Likhovtseva 5-7, 6-1, 6-0; Nicole Pratt bt Jie Zheng 7-5, 7-5; Conchita Martinez bt Mervana Jugic-Salkic 6-3, 6-2; Eleni Daniilidou bt Tina Pisnik 3-6, 6-3, 6-2; Petra Mandula bt Jelena Dokic 6-1, 6-2.
Doubles: Jelena Kostanic/Henrieta Nagyova bt Maria Vento-Kabchi/Angelique Widjaja 6-3, 6-1; Leizel Huber/Ai Sugiyama bt Lina Krasnoroutskaya/Anastasia Myskina 2-6, 6-1, 6-3; Svetlana Kuznetsova/Elena Likhovtseva bt Ting Li/Tian tian Sun 6-2, 6-4.
Order of play
Centre Court:
(At 2 pm) Alicia Molik vs Venus Williams; Eleni Daniilidou vs Jennifer Capriati
(7 pm) Justine Henin-Hardenne vs Selima Sfar; Svetlana Kuznetsova vs Anca Barna.
Court No.1: (At 2 pm) Anastasia Myskina vs Magui Serna; Ai Sugiyama vs Nicole Pratt; Petra Mandula/Barbara Schett vs Alicia Molik/Magui Serna; Leizel Huber/Ai Sugiyama OR Lina Krasnoroutskaya/Anastasia Myskina vs Meghann Shaughnessy/Roberta Vinci.
Court No.2:
(At 2 pm) Maria Elena Camerin vs Conchita Martinez; Meghann Shaughnessy vs Petra Mandula
(4 pm) Mervana Jugic-Salkic/Mara Santangelo vs Caroline Dhenin/Francesca Schiavone; Petra Mandula/Barbara Schett vs Alicia Molik/Magui Serna.
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