By Chris Davies
June 10 2003

Elena Bovina and Daja Bedanova seeded 4th and 12th repsectively both were surprise first round losers at the DFS Classic, Birmingham Elena Bovina was a loser to Japanese Shiobu Asagoe 6-3, 6-3 whereas 12th seed Daja Bedanova lost to a player that she shouldn't have done.

Venuzuela's Vento-Kabchi 6-2, 4-6, 7-6 in a very tight match that could have gone anyway but the 137th ranked player notched it up a gear and through to her second round match.

The only seed to advance on the second day was American Lisa Raymond who beat Russia's Anastasia Rodionova 6-3, 6-3 and said after that she can beat anybody, "If I am playing well, I can cause trouble for anyone in the world in singles". Maybe sounding her horn a week in advance of the Wimbledon Championships starting a week Monday.


Rain halted the rest of play.

First Round Results:
Ad Serra-Zanetti (ITA) bt D Randrientefy (MAD)
6-4, 6-3

M Sharapova (RUS) bt E Koulikovskaya (RUS)
6-1, 6-1

S Foretz (FRA) bt G Dulko (ARG)
6-3, 6-2

(11) M-G MIKAELIAN (SUI) bt L Osterloh (USA)
6-4, 7-5

J Lee (TPE) bt M Weingartner (GER)
7-5, 6-2

T Perebiynis (UKR) bt C Black (ZIM)
7-5, 6-1

M Tu (USA) bt Y Yoshida (JPN)
6-4, 6-2

T Snyder (USA) bt C Morariu (USA)
6-2, 7-6 (7-5)

M Vento-Kabchi (VEN) bt (12) D BEDANOVA (CZE)
6-2, 4-6, 7-6 (7-2)


Second Round:
E Callens (BEL) bt A Widjaja (INO)
6-3, 6-3

(6) L Raymond (USA) bt A Rodionova (RUS)
6-1, 3-6, 6-2

S Asagoe (JAP) bt (4) E Bovina (RUS)
6-3, 6-3