Sprem Orchestrates Rare Upset at WTA Istanbul


Posted on May 23, 2006

Karolina "The Spreminator" Sprem has bombed since cracking the Top 20 briefly in 2004, but on Monday the Croatian showed a glimmer of her former self with a 6-2, 7-6(3) upset of No. 8 seed Jelena Jankovic at the Istanbul Cup.

The No. 78-ranked Sprem will next face the winner of American Mashona Washington and a qualifier.

No. 6 seed Catalina Castano was the only seed safely through to the second round Monday, defeating Alona Bondarenko in straight sets.

Other unseeded players into the second round were Swiss Emmanuelle Gagliardi (d. Daniilidou who retired with injury), Dutchwoman Michaella Krajicek (d. Kotkina who retired with injury), and Tsvetana Pironkova (d. Diaz-Oliva in three).

Scheduled for Tuesday in Istanbul are Paszek vs. Molik, Santangelo vs. Czink, Senoglu vs. Mirza, Myskina vs. Pironkova, Rybarikova vs. Washington, Jackson vs. Peer, Cibulkova vs. Harkleroad, Chakvetadze vs. Shaughnessy, Widjaja vs. Yakimova, and U.Radwanska vs. Camerin.
Rankings
ATP - Feb 06 WTA - Feb 06
1 Novak Djokovic1 Victoria Azarenka
2 Rafael Nadal2 Petra Kvitova
3 Roger Federer3 Maria Sharapova
4 Andy Murray4 Caroline Wozniacki
5 David Ferrer5 Samantha Stosur
6 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga6 Agnieszka Radwanska
7 Tomas Berdych7 Marion Bartoli
8 Mardy Fish8 Vera Zvonareva
9 Janko Tipsarevic9 Na Li
10 Juan Martin Del Potro10 Andrea Petkovic
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