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Monterrey, Mexico (Sports Network) - Fourth seed Alexandra Dulgheru came up
an opening-round loser Tuesday at the $220,000 Monterrey Open.
Spaniard Silvia Soler-Espinosa erased the Romanian Dulgheru 6-3, 6-3 on the
hardcourts at Sierra Madre Tennis Club.
Sixth-seeded Hungarian Greta Arn avoided an upset by handling Chinese Zhang
Shuai 6-1, 6-4.
Other Day-2 wins came for France's Alize Cornet, Croatian qualifier Maria
Abramovic and Russian Valeria Savinykh, who drilled 41-year-old Japanese
Kimiko Date-Krumm 6-2, 6-3. Abramovic topped last week's Bogota runner-up
Alexandra Panova, 7-5, 6-4.
This week's champion will claim $37,000.
The Sports Network