Chakvetadze, Mauresmo reach third round in Florida

Tennis Betting Lines

04/09/2008 - Amelia Island, FL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Second-seeded Russian Anna Chakvetadze and former world No. 1 French star Amelie Mauresmo were second-round winners Wednesday at the $600,000 Bausch & Lomb Championships.

Chakvetadze charged past Japanese qualifier Ayumi Morita 6-3, 6-1 on Day 3 at Amelia Island Plantation, while an 11th-seeded Mauresmo, who captured this clay-court event back in 2001, handled Romanian wild card Sorana Cirstea 7-5, 6-1.

An upset came when Croatian qualifier Karolina Sprem toppled third-seeded Slovakian Daniela Hantuchova 6-3, 1-6, 6-3 in 2 hours, 7 minutes. Sprem fired up nine aces en route to the surprising victory.

Additional top-10 upsets occurred when Russian Elena Vesnina took out fifth- seeded Swiss Patty Schnyder 6-2, 2-6, 6-2 and France's Alize Cornet bounced ninth-seeded Austrian Sybille Bammer 6-1, 6-3.

In other second-round play, sixth-seeded Russian Dinara Safina subdued Ukrainian Tatiana Perebiynis 6-3, 6-3; seventh-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland outlasted Argentine Gisela Dulko 6-2, 1-6, 7-6 (7-1) in 2 hours, 24 minutes; 12th-seeded Slovenian Katarina Srebotnik doused Czech Lucie Safarova 6-2, 6-4; and rising Slovakian Dominika Cibulkova upended 14th-seeded Belarusian Victoria Azarenka 7-5, 4-6, 6-2. The 18-year-old Cibulkova will tangle with Chakvetadze in the third round here on Thursday, while Radwanska will encounter the two-time major titlist Mauresmo.

The 2008 Bausch & Lomb champion will pocket $95,500.

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Big 12 Conference betting odds

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.