Update 4:20 pm. Teenage wildcard Sally Peers’s week of joy ended abruptly at Pat Rafter Arena on Wednesday when she crashed out of the Brisbane International in the second round.
Following a first-round boilover against seeded Russian Alisa Kleybanova on Monday, Peers was given a wildcard to next week’s Hobart International but failed to celebrate against Czech Barbora Zahlavova Strycova.
After a solid start to be 3-3, the Melbourne 19-year-old fell in a heap and went down 6-4 6-1 in 66 minutes.
World No.67 Zahlavova Strycova will meet French fourth seed Marion Bartoli in the quarterfinals after the French fourth seed recovered from a second-set glitch against Czech Iveta Benesova to win 6-1 3-6 6-0.
The world No.16 won an impressive 91 per cent of points when she landed her first serve. In the second set Benesova increased her first-serve percentage and began swinging freely from the baseline to take the set 6-3.
The momentum was brought to a sharp halt in the third set though, with Bartoli taking the last six games of the match to set up a quarterfinal showdown with another Czech in Zahlavova Strycova.
French fourth seed Marion Bartoli has recovered from a second-set glitch against Czech Iveta Benesova to storm into the Brisbane International quarter-finals 6-1 3-6 6-0.
The world No.16 won an impressive 91 per cent of points when she landed her first serve. In the second set Benesova increased her first-serve percentage and began swinging freely from the baseline to take the set 6-3.
The momentum was brought to a sharp halt in the third set though, with Bartoli taking the last six games of the match to set up a quarter-final showdown with another Czech Barbora Zahlavova Strycova.