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Wozniacki and Zvonareva crash out

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Upbeat:Despite her loss at Sydney, Caroline Wozniacki maintained that she was on course for the Australian Open.

SYDNEY: World No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki shrugged off a defeat in her first competitive match of the year at the Sydney International on Tuesday, saying she would be ready to go at the Australian Open next week.

Dane Wozniacki went down 6-3, 6-3 to Slovakia's Dominika Cibulova in a rain-disrupted second-round match and was later joined at the exit by second seed Vera Zvonareva and fourth seed Sam Stosur.

“It happens,” the 20-year-old told reporters. “Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. You need to learn from the losses.”

“It's the first tournament of the year. I just want to get the match playing going. There were a few positive things in there that I can take out of it, and then I just need to work on the rest. But I'm confident that for Melbourne I'll be okay.”

Russian Zvonareva, the world No. 2, also departed early with her 7-5, 7-5 loss to Italy's Flavia Pennetta, crumbling after fighting her way back into the match in the second set.

Stosur, the best hope of a local champion at Melbourne Park, made it a trio of upsets when she was beaten 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 by twice Grand Slam champion Svetlana Kuznetsova in a sloppy match.

World No. 3, Kim Clijsters had no such problems in her second round match, clinically dispatching frustrated Czech Barbora Zahlavova Strycova 6-1, 6-4 to reach the quarterfinals.

The rain returned later to cause a long delay in the final match on centre court between men's fifth seed Richard Gasquet and local wildcard Matthew Ebden, but play did finally resume with the Frenchman running out a 6-4, 6-3 winner.

The results: At Sydney: Sydney International: Men: Richard Gasquet bt Matthew Ebden 6-4, 6-3; Andreas Seppi bt Denis Istomin 6-1, 6-0; Potito Starace bt Julien Benneteau 6-7(6), 6-3, 6-4; Guillermo Garcia-Lopez bt Chris Guccione 7-6(5), 7-5; Juan Ignacio Chela bt Radek Stepanek 4-6, 6-0, 6-3.

Women: Bojana Jovanovski bt Aravane Rezai 7-6(4), 7-6(4); Svetlana Kuznetsova bt Samantha Stosur 3-6, 6-3, 6-4; Flavia Pennetta bt Vera Zvonareva 7-5, 7-5; Victoria Azarenka bt Shahar Peer 7-5, 6-3; Kim Clijsters bt Barbora Zahlavova Strycova 6-1, 6-4; Alisa Kleybanova bt Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez 6-2, 6-4; Li Na bt Virginie Razzano 6-4, 1-6, 6-4; Dominika Cibulkova bt Caroline Wozniacki 6-3, 6-3.

At Auckland: Auckland Open: Robin Haase bt Pablo Cuevas 3-6, 7-6(3), 7-6(3); Arnaud Clement bt Xavier Malisse 4-6, 6-2, 7-5; Tobias Kamke bt Pere Riba 6-3, 6-4; Philipp Petzschner bt Thiemo de Bakker 6-1, 6-7(5), 7-6(3); David Nalbandian bt Fabio Fognini 7-6(3), 6-4; Adrian Mannarino bt Juan Monaco 6-4, 6-3; Marcel Granollers bt Bobby Reynolds 6-4, 6-3; Thomaz Bellucci bt Michael Russell 6-4, 6-7(4), 7-5; Victor Hanescu bt Kevin Anderson 7-6(7), 6-7(3), 6-4.

At Hobart: Hobart International: Jarmila Groth bt Tamira Paszek 6-4, 7-6(5) .

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