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Kuznetsova exits the Open

Mon 6th, September 2010

Flushing Meadows, NY (Sports Network) - Former champion Svetlana Kuznetsova was a fourth-round upset victim Monday at the U.S. Open.

Talented Slovak Dominika Cibulkova cut down the 11th-seeded Kuznetsova 7-5, 7-6 (7-4) at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. The scrappy Cibulkova dismissed Kuznetsova in 2 hours, 6 minutes, as the Russian piled up 10 double faults and had her serve broken on four occasions on Labor Day in the United States.

Cibulkova utilized her speed to oust Kuznetsova.

"I would say it was a good match from my side," Cibulkova said. "You know, I was just trying to be aggressive as I could, and Svetlana today, she lets me be more aggressive."

The two-time Grand Slam event champion Kuznetsova titled here in 2004 and was the U.S. Open runner-up in 2007. She hasn't reached the quarterfinals in Flushing since '07.

Cibulkova will appear in her second career and first-ever U.S. Open quarterfinal.

The 21-year-old Cibulkova will meet the Caroline Wozniacki-Maria Sharapova winner in the round of eight. Wozniacki is the top seed at this fortnight and was last year's U.S. Open runner-up to Belgian star Kim Clijsters. Sharapova was the 2006 champion here and a former world No. 1.

Rising 31st-seeded Estonian Kaia Kanepi reached her second straight Grand Slam quarterfinal, as she upended 15th-seeded Belgian Yanina Wickmayer 0-6, 7-6 (7-2), 6-1 on Monday. The athletic Wickmayer was a semifinalist here a year ago.

Kanepi reached her first-ever major quarterfinal at Wimbledon in July.