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The Dysfunctional Tennis Blog (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
The slew of upset-makers Tuesday were Casey Dellacqua (d. (12) Patty Schnyder in three), Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (d. (17) Alize Cornet in two tiebreaks), Vera Dushevina (d. (19) Maria Kirilenko), Evgeniya Rodina (d. (27) Virginie Razzano after getting bageled in the first), and Jie Zheng (d. (30) Dominika Cibulkova).
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ZooTennis (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
Last year Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia was given a wild card into the main draw at Wimbledon, granted due to her position as the ITF's top junior in 2006. It didn't go well, as the then 15-year-old won only one game from Daniela Hantuchova, and in the juniors, lost to eventual champion Urszula Radwanska in the quarterfinals. Since last year, Pavlyuchenkova has moved her WTA ranking up to 136,...