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Medina Garrigues rallies to advance

Associated Press

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

STRASBOURG, France -- Defending champion Anabel Medina Garrigues of Spain rallied to beat Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium 1-6, 6-3, 6-3 on Tuesday in the first round at the Strasbourg International. The top-seeded Garrigues, who won at Strasbourg in 2005 and '07, will face Kristina Barrois of Germany at the clay event. But four seeded players, including No. 5 Tamarine Tanasugarn of Thailand and No. 6 Elena Vesnina of Russia, lost on a day of upsets. Tanasugarn lost 6-3, 6-0 to Viktoriya Kutuzova ...

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