Two-Time Champ Martinez Knocked out in Opener at WTA Berlin

Two-time Berlin champ Conchita Martinez was ousted in the first round Monday at the Tier I WTA stop, tripped up by Spanish countrywoman Maria Sanchez Lorenzo 6-3, 3-6, 6-4.

Two other seeds in action advanced in (11)Paola Suarez (d. (Q)Anabel "Funky Cold" Medina Garrigues), and (16)Anna Smashnova-Pistolesi (d. Maleeva). Qualifiers had their day Monday, with four winners in Croatian Jelena Kostanic (d. Pisnik), Swiss Emmanuelle Gagliardi (d. Black), Spain's Marta Marrero (d. (Q)Camrin), and France's Stephanie Cohen-Aloro (d. (WC)Gehrlein).

Other unseeded winners were Germans Anca Barna (d. Pratt in three) and wildcard Julia Schruff (d. (Q)Tu), Russia's Elena Bovina (d. (Q)Zi Yan "Can Cook"), and Czech Denisa "Hanging" Chladkova (d. Parra).

On court Tuesday on the red dirt are Shaughnessy vs. Dokic, Safina vs. Sharapova, Capriati vs. Schruff, Barna vs. Petrova, Zvonareva vs. Perebiynis, Schnyder vs. Hantuchova, Groenefeld vs. Sprem, Pierce vs. Likhovtseva, Vakulenko vs. Mandula, Pastikova vs. Dulko, Schett vs. Srebotnik, Mikaelian vs. Kuznetsova, Golovin vs. Daniilidou, Zuluaga vs. Testud, and Dechy vs. Strycova.