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Rome - Spain's Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez, who won the Italian Open 12 months ago as an unseeded player, failed to survive the first round on Monday as she stumbled to a 6-0 5-7 6-4 defeat by Russian Ekaterina Makarova.
Sanchez, who was again unseeded, recovered from a first set whitewash to take the second set on her favourite clay surface but her respite was shortlived as she was again blown away by Makarova in the breezy conditions.
In further upsets, 11th seed and former French Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova fell 3-6 7-6 7-6 to unseeded Hungarian Greta Arn, while former finalist Patty Schnyder went down to Spanish qualifier Ana Medina Garrigues 6-3 6-2.
Another Spaniard Lourdes Dominguez Lino came through against Barbora Zahlavova Strycova 6-1 0-6 7-6 to set up a second round match against fourth seed Li Na.
Results from the second day of the ATP/WTA Italian Masters (x denotes seeding):
Men
First Round
Viktor Troicki (SRB x15) bt Nikolay Davydenko (RUS) 6-4, 7-5
Potito Starace (ITA) bt Oleksandr Dolgopolov Jr. (UKR) 6-3, 6-3
Mardy Fish (USA x11) bt Santiago Giraldo (COL) 4-6, 6-2, 6-2
Jarkko Nieminen (FIN) bt Adrian Mannarino (FRA) 7-5, 2-6, 6-3
Sergiy Stakhovsky (UKR) bt Victor Hanescu (ROM) 6-3, 1-6, 7-6 (8/6)
Igor Andreev (RUS) bt Pere Riba (ESP) 6-4, 7-5
Gilles Simon (FRA) bt Andy Roddick (USA x12) 6-3, 6-3
Xavier Malisse (BEL) bt Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP) 7-5, 6-2
Lukasz Kubot (POL) bt Pablo Cuevas (URU) 7-6 (7/1), 2-6, 6-2
Women
First Round
Yanina Wickmayer (BEL) bt Angelique Kerber (GER) 4-6, 6-3, 6-3
Jarmila Groth (AUS) bt Corinna Dentoni (ITA) 6-1, 6-2
Alisa Kleybanova (RUS) bt Varvara Lepchenko (USA) 6-2, 6-2
Marion Bartoli (FRA x9) bt Arantxa Parra (ESP) 6-2, 6-3
Elena Vesnina (RUS) bt Tamira Paszek (AUT) 6-4, 6-4
Greta Arn (HUN) bt Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS x11) 3-6, 7-6 (7/4), 7-6 (11/9)
Lourdes Dominguez (ESP) bt Barbora Zahlavova Strycova (CZE) 6-1, 0-6, 7-6 (7/4)
Iveta Benesova (CZE) bt Gisela Dulko (ARG) 6-2, 6-1
Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP) bt Patty Schnyder (SUI) 6-3, 6-2
Christina McHale (USA) bt Shuai Peng (CHN) 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (9/7)
Vera Dushevina (RUS) bt Ayumi Morita (JPN) 6-3, 6-1
Ekaterina Makarova (RUS) bt Maria Jose Martinez (ESP) 6-0, 5-7, 6-4
Polona Hercog (SLO) bt Alexandra Dulgheru (ROM) 6-1, 7-5
