Dutch 35-year-old Brenda Schultz-McCarthy won her first tour-level match of the year Sunday on the opening day at the Ordina Open in 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands, with the former Top 10er defeating American
Laura Granville 7-5, 6-3.
Other winners Sunday were (5)
Ana Ivanovic (d. (WC) Molik in three), Croat
Jelena Kostanic (d. Takao), and Czech
Iveta Benesova (d. Mirza in three).
Mirza now enters Wimbledon with a 2-2 record on grass in 2006 after last week at Birmingham losing to American qualifier
Meilen Tu in the third round.
Russians
Elena Dementieva and
Dinara Safina are the top two seeds this week, joined by fellow seeds
Flavia Pennetta of Italy, Russian
Maria Kirilenko, the Serb Ivanovic, Spaniard
Anabel Medina Garrigues, Argentine
Gisela Dulko and Serb
Jelena Jankovic.
On court Monday are (7) Dulko vs. Qualifier, (3) Pennetta vs. Krajicek, Dominguez Lino vs. Camerin, Suarez vs. (4) Kirilenko, Schruff vs. Vesnina, Zheng vs. Daniilidou, and (6) Medina Garrigues vs. Domachowska.
