Sharapova, Jankovic roll in DFS openers

Tennis Betting Lines

06/13/2007 - Birmingham, England (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - French Open semifinal losers Maria Sharapova and Jelena Jankovic were a pair of second-round winners Wednesday at the $200,000 DFS Classic.

The top-seeded Sharapova drilled American qualifier Lilia Osterloh 6-4, 6-0, while the second-seeded Jankovic handled Bulgarian Tsvetana Pironkova 6-4, 6-1 at Edgbaston Priory Club. The Russian Sharapova, who lost to Serbian Ana Ivanovic in the French Open semis last week, and the Serbian Jankovic, who gave way to world No. 1 Justine Henin at Roland Garros, enjoyed opening-round byes this week.

The U.S. Open champion, Aussie Open runner-up and former world No. 1 Sharapova was the back-to-back Birmingham titlist in 2004 and 2005.

Sharapova's third-round opponent here on Thursday will be Austrian Tamira Paszek, while Jankovic will encounter 16th-seeded Russian beauty Maria Kirilenko.

Four other seeds advanced here on Day 3, as No. 5 Marion Bartoli of France whipped British wild card Naomi Cavaday 6-3, 6-1; No. 6 Ukrainian Alona Bondarenko beat Taipei's Yung-Jan Chan 6-3, 6-4; No. 8 Italian Mara Santangelo edged out Indian Sania Mirza 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (8-6); and No. 9 Ukrainian Julia Vakulenko snuck past Slovenian qualifier Andreja Klepac 6-4, 6-7 (5-7), 6-3.

Upsets came when qualifier Ayumi Morita took out her seventh-seeded fellow Japanese Ai Sugiyama 6-4, 1-6, 6-2 and Paszek drove out 13th-seeded American Meilen Tu 6-2, 7-6 (7-3).

In other second-round action, German Angelique Kerber doused American Ahsha Rolle 6-4, 6-1, Ukrainian qualifier Yuliana Fedak overcame Venezuelan Milagros Sequera 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 and American Vania King squeaked past Aussie Alicia Molik 7-6 (12-10), 6-4.

Birmingham serves as a tune-up for Wimbledon, which will commence in less than two weeks at the All England Club.

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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.


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