FOXNews.com: Kuznetsova knocks out Radwanska; Ivanovic exits

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Kuznetsova knocks out Radwanska; Ivanovic exits Jun 1st 2012, 13:10 Paris, France –  One former French Open champ pulled an upset and another previous winner exited in third-round play Friday at Roland Garros. Svetlana Kuznetsova, the 2009 champion, knocked out third-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska with a thorough 6-1, 6-2 victory, while Italy's Sara Errani sent 2008 winner Ana Ivanovic home with 1-6, 7-5, 6-3 triumph. Also, second-seeded Maria Sharapova won a second-round match postponed from Thursday, easing past Japan's Ayumi Morita, 6-1, 6-1. Kuznetsova is seeded 26th in her 10th visit to Paris. In addition to her 2009 championship, the Russian veteran was runner-up to Justine Henin in 2006 and last year fell in the quarterfinals to Marion Bartoli. Radwanska has yet to make it past the fourth round at the French Open in six appearances. She lost to Kuznetsova in the round of 16 in 2009 and last year fell to Sharapova in round four. Kuznetsova, who also has a U.S. Open title on her resume, has won six straight against Radwanska and improved to 10-3 lifetime against the Polish star, who had taken out Venus Williams in the second round. Next up for Kuznetsova will be Errani, whose victory against Ivanovic was not all that surprising, other than the fact that it came against a former French Open champion. The 25-year-old Italian is ranked 24th with three titles this year. She won in Acapulco, Barcelona and Budapest -- all on clay -- after a quarterfinal loss to Petra Kvitova at the Australian Open in January, which marked her best finish in 18 Grand Slam events. The 13th-seeded Ivanovic hasn't come close to a second Grand Slam title since her maiden triumph on the red clay in Paris four years ago. The Serb hasn't been past the fourth round in any of the subsequent 16 major championships. Sharapova, meanwhile, made short work of Morita after the match was pushed back a day because of the five-hour marathon on Thursday between Paul-Henri Mathieu and John Isner. She needed only an hour to advance, winning 56 of the 84 points played, to earn a third-round tussle with China's Peng Shuai. Other early third-round winners Friday were Slovakia's Dominika Cibulkova, American Sloane Stephens and Croatia's Petra Martic. The 15th-seeded Cibulkova thumped Spain's Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez, 6-2, 6-1, while Stephens dumped Frenchwoman Mathilde Johansson, 6-3, 6-2. Martic, who eliminated the eighth-seeded Bartoli in the second round, continued her strong play with a 6-2, 6-1 rout of Spain's Anabel Medina Garrigues.

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