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CINCINNATI — Thirteenth-seeded Alexandr Dolgopolov became the first upset at the Western & Southern Open, losing to 50th-ranked Nikolay Davydenko 6-1, 6-1 in the first round Monday.

Davydenko, ranked as high as
No. 3 on the tour in 2006 and 2007, needed just 52 minutes to beat
Dolgopolov, who was won the Citi Open in Washington on Aug. 5.

Dolgopolov, a Ukrainian ranked 16th in the world, committed 26 unforced errors to just three by his Russian opponent.

Twelfth-seeded
Marin Cilic of Croatia survived a challenge from qualifier Sergiy
Stakhovsky before advancing with a 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 win.

In other
men’s matches on the tournament’s first full day, Andreas Seppi of Italy
beat the Netherlands’ Robin Hasse 6-4, 6-4; qualifier Jesse Levine beat
Donald Young 6-4, 7-6 (2) in a matchup of Americans; Taiwan’s Yen-Hsun
Lu eliminated Poland’s Lukasz Kubot 6-3, 6-0; and American wild-card
Brian Baker outlasted Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany 7-6 (7), 7-6 (4).

Stanislas
Wawrinka of Switzerland needed three sets to get by French qualifier
Paul-Henri Mathieu 6-2, 3-6, 6-1. And Lleyton Hewitt advanced with a
6-4, 6-4 win over Russian Mikhail Youzhny

Serbian
Victor Troicki beat Croatian qualifier Ivan Dodig 6-4, 7-5, Spain’s
Pablo Andujar cruised past Australian qualifier Marinko Matosevic 6-4,
6-3, German Florian Mayer defeated qualifier Fabio Fognini of Italy 7-5,
6-2, and Uzbekistan’s Denis Istomin eliminated France’s Julien Benneteau 6-3, 6-1

The
women’s tournament got underway with a mild upset as Peng Shuai won a
grueling three-setter over 13th seeded Jelena Jankovic 5-7, 7-5, 7-6
(8).

Jankovic, last year’s runner-up and the 2009 champion, lost
at love while serving for the match in the second set, including a
double-fault at 0-40, and blew a total of five match points against her
Chinese opponent.

The 66th-ranked Timea Babos, a 19-year-old
Hungarian, knocked out 39th-ranked Varvara Lepchenko of the United
States 7-6 (4), 6-4. Babos lost in the final round of qualifying on
Sunday but reached the main draw when Ana Ivanovic withdrew because of a
toe injury.

Eleventh-seeded Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia earned a routine 6-3, 6-4 win over qualifier Akgul Amanmuradova of Uzbekistan.

Italy’s
Mona Barthel beat Spain’s Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez 6-0, 6-4; Anabel
Medina Garrigues of Spain defeated Romanian Simona Halep 6-3, 6-0;
Germany’s Julia Goerges won in straight sets over Israel’s Shahar Peer
6-3, 6-3; and Sweden’s Johanna Larsson beat Australia’s Casey Dellacqua
6-1, 6-3.

Also, wild card Camila Giorgi eased past fellow Italian
Francesca Schiavone 6-1, 6-3; and Eleni Daniilidou of Greece outlasted
Vania King of the United States 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (6) in a matchup of
qualifiers. Another qualifier, Urszula Radwanska of Poland, advanced
with a 6-2, 6-4 win over Ksenia Pervak of Kazakhstan

Olympic
singles champion Serena Williams is the women’s tournament favorite and
will begin Tuesday in her campaign to win the Cincinnati title for the
first time.