MADRID MASTERS: Gulbis advance,Fognini falls.

13th seed Fabio Fognini falls at first hurdles in the Masters event. Falling in 3 set to Alexander Dolgopolov. The loss ruined the italian hope to dig further in the ranking during clay swing.

meanwhile Latvian Ernest Gulbis defeat Pole jerzy Janowic to advance, the match also go to 3 set distance.

martina hingis fall in madrid

8 times doubles grandslam champion Martina Hingis loss in the second round in madrid , she and her partner Sabine lisicki who win in Miami fall to defending champion Puvlyuchenkova/Safarova in straight set.
< br />Ironically last year Hingis coached Pavlyuchenkova to victory in here. Russian Czech duo win 62 63.

These two teams never met before, however Hingis should be able to capitalize her knowledge about Pavlyuchenkova games but she fail to do so.

maria sharapova fights back to win in madrid second round

Christina McHale finally won a set from Sharapova. Earlier the match could be done in straight set for world no 9 as she racing to close first set with 61 on the scoreboard. However the American found her way to steal second set 64, six games later she found herself on verge to score first win over the Russian as she broke to lead 42.

but Sharapova who won in Stuttgart few week ago just dont want to let the match go. She dug herself out from the hole, winning four straight games to prevail in 2 hour 18 minutes, 61,46,64, to keep a perfect record over McHale. Next up for Sharapova is the winner between Garbine Muguruza and Sam Stosur.

MUTUA MADRID OPEN ORDER OF PLAY TUESDAY

MANOLO SANTANA start 11:00 am WTA – J Zheng (CHN) vs [2] N Li (CHN) WTA – [8] M Sharapova (RUS) vs C Mchale (USA) Not Before 3:15 pm ATP – [5] D Ferrer (ESP) vs [WC] A Ramos (ESP) ATP – F Verdasco (ESP) vs R Bautista Agut (ESP) Not Before 8:00 pm ATP – [Q] D Thiem (AUT) vs [3] S Wawrinka (SUI) Not Before 9:30 pm WTA – [11] A Ivanovic (SRB) vs B Jovanovski (SRB)

ARANTXA SANCHEZ VICARIO start 11:00 am ATP – [Q] I Sijsling (NED) vs [14] T Haas (GER) ATP – [Q] A Golubev (KAZ) vs N Almagro (ESP) Not Before 3:00 pm WTA – G Muguruza (ESP) vs S Stosur (AUS) WTA – F Schiavone (ITA) vs [10] S Errani (ITA) ATP – [WC] G Garcia-Lopez (ESP) vs [10] K Nishikori (JPN)

Women single second round get underway, with Sharapova up against McHale. Another interesting match is Chinese star duel Li vs Zheng. In men single nishikori look to pursue a place in top ten, he up against Garcia Lopez. Noteworthy double matches include no 3 seed Vesnina/Makarova open their campaign on clay this season against Medina fatigues/Shvedova, meanwhile defending champion Puvlyuchenkova/Safarova get recent Miami champion Hingis/Lisicki.

Mutua Madrid open (2nd day)

Men single 1st round J. Nieminen d R Haase 63 62 M copil d M Granollers 63 64 10 k NIshikori d I Dodig 64 64 Women single 1st round I Begun d S Zhang 64 74 A Pavlyuchenkova d M Teresa torro-flor 64 46 61 S Stosur d D Cibulkova 64;60

Maria Kirilenko won first match of the year

Kirilenko of Russia win first match of the year. She make a comeback at Charleston but lost to teenager Bencic. She recovered from injury that force her to withdraw from TOC at Sofia late last year.

In her second match this season she scored a straight set win over French qualifier Kristina Mladenovic in first round of Mutua Madrid open. She won 64,75. Well done maria. Hopefully she will continue to surge in the ranking. Last year she broke into top ten briefly, now she rank 35 in the world.

Sharapova makes winning start at madrid

Maria Sharapova continues her superb form on clay, she brushed aside Czech Klara Koukalova 61,62. She hoping to continue her good run here. Koukalova however manage to break Sharapova serve twice in the second set, but she unable to stop her opponent to win for the sixth time in their seven meeting. Next up for Sharapova is Christina McHale, whom she beat in straight set in all their three meetings.