Bartoli, Mauresmo, Szavay post wins in New Haven

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08/20/2008 - New Haven, CT (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Third-seeded Frenchwoman Marion Bartoli, fourth-seeded Hungarian Agnes Szavay and former world No. 1 Amelie Mauresmo of France were all winners Tuesday at the $600,000 Pilot Pen Tennis event, a final hardcourt U.S. Open tune-up.

The 2007 Wimbledon runner-up Bartoli came from behind to beat Bulgarian Tsvetana Pironkova 2-6, 6-4, 7-5 in second-round action.

Szavay, meanwhile, staved off a late rally to beat Italian Sara Errani 6-4, 6-7 (3-7), 6-4 in a second-round match. Szavay was last year's Pilot Pen runner-up to Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova.

In first-round action, two-time Grand Slam champion Mauresmo, unseeded this week, edged out Estonian Kaia Kanepi 6-2, 6-7 (3-7), 6-2 at the Connecticut Tennis Center. The 2005 New Haven runner-up Mauresmo's second-round opponent will be fifth-seeded Swiss Patty Schnyder.

In some other first-round play on Day 3, sixth-seeded Italian Flavia Pennetta pasted Argentine Gisela Dulko 6-3, 6-1 and Romanian qualifier Monica Niculescu came back to beat Russian Maria Kirilenko 6-7 (7-9), 6-2, 6-1 on the grounds at Yale University.

This week's winner will collect $95,500. The top seed is Russian Anna Chakvetadze, who will meet Aussie Casey Dellacqua in the second round here on Wednesday.

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Work left to do: Texas Tech, Oklahoma State, Kansas State

Texas joins Texas A&M and Kansas as locks after getting league win No. 11. Texas Tech greatly helped its own hopes and crippled OK State's with the two-point win Saturday. Is K-State the last reasonable hopeful? Could be an elimination match in Stillwater on Tuesday, at least for the Cowboys.

Work left to do:

Texas Tech [18-11 (7-7), RPI: 44, SOS: 12] A critical two-point win over OK State leaves the Red Raiders with Baylor and at Iowa State left. Get both and the Red Raiders likely are good to go. Get one and there could be some interesting comparisons with a K-State team that could finish two or three games "ahead" of them in the standings but doesn't have any of the quality wins Texas Tech has. Not a lot in nonconference play (against Arkansas in Little Rock being the best win, by far) to lean on.

Oklahoma State [18-9 (5-8), RPI: 50, SOS: 35] Still without a road win, the Cowboys now need to win two on the road just to get to .500 in conference play. It's hard to recall a team (OK, other than Clemson) falling so precipitously from lock status to almost certainly out of the NCAAs at this point. There are wins to be had in the last three, including a very big home game against K-State on Tuesday, but this team is reeling. Can you tell the pressure to win is getting to them with the way the final possession played out at Texas Tech? There are some good nonconference performances to lean on, specifically beating Missouri State and Syracuse on neutral floors and Pitt in OK City, but if the Pokes don't right this very, very soon, that won't be enough.

Kansas State [20-9 (9-5), RPI: 56, SOS: 96] It pays to be in the Big 12 North. The nine league wins are Colorado (twice), Missouri (twice), Iowa State (twice), Baylor, Nebraska and (a good one against) Texas. That helps explain the middling computer profile. The win over USC is nice, but the nonconference leaves a lot to be desired. The game at OK State in Stillwater on Tuesday is huge, as it could KO the Cowboys and leave K-State with a home date against Oklahoma with which to work.









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