Just a day after top seed Francesca Schiavone exited the Hanson Korea Open in the first round, second-seeded Marion Bartoli fell in the second round to Vania King 6-3 7-5.

Seventeen double faults and first serve percentage of 43 marked Bartoli's game and those weaknesses handed King almost half of the points on Bartoli's serve. The world No.98 King scored her first Top 10 victory.

King's opponent in the quarterfinals of the Hansol Korea Open will be Klara Zakopalova, who upset seventh-seeded Irina-Camelia Begu 6-1 6-1. (photo: © Neal Trousdale)

Top seed Francesca Schiavone lost in the opening round of the Hansol Korea Open to Vera Dushevina. It is actually Dushevina’s third victory over Schiavone in their four matches, but the first one in straight sets.

The world No.8 Schiavone, 57 places higher in the WTA rankings than Dushevina, lost the first set in a tiebreak 7-6(4) and succumbed in the second set 6-2.

The highest seed at the tournament is now No.2 Marion Bartoli, who defeated Nuria Llagostera Vives 6-2 6-2 in the first round and will play Vania King in the second. Bartoli won their last two meetings, including this year in Brisbane 6-1 6-2. (photo: © Neal Trousdale)

Russian world No.28 Alisa Kleybanova won her second career title in her second Sony Ericsson WTA Tour singles final with a 6-1 6-3 victory over 39th-ranked Czech Klara Zakopalova at the Hansol Korea Open. Kleybanova's first title came at the inaugural Malaysian Open in Kuala Lumpur this year.

After winning the longest tiebreak of the year (15-13) against Ksenia Pervak in the second round, the fifth-seeded Kleybanova didn’t lose more than three games per set on her way to the Seoul title.

Zakopalova, who advanced to the title match as top seed Nadia Petrova retired because of stomachache in the first set of their semifinal, has now lost seven of her eleven career finals. (photo via Hansol Korea Open)

All the seeded played that played their quarterfinal matches at the Hansol Korea Open, No.1 seed Nadia Petrova, No.5 seed Alisa Kleybanova and No.8 seed Agnes Szavay, advanced to the semifinals, while in the only quarterfinal played solely by unseeded players Dinara Safina lost to Klara Zakopalova.

Both Petrova and Kleybanova broke their opponents five times. Petrova took 61 minutes to beat Kirsten Flipkens 6-2 6-1, while Kleybanova needed seven minutes more to defeat good friend Ekaterina Makarova 6-1 6-2. Szavay had a much tougher match, but ended defending champion Kimiko Date Krumm’s seven match winning streak at the Hansol Korea Open with a 6-2 6-7(3) 6-3 victory in two hours and 42 minutes.

Former world No.1 Dinara Safina has now lost all her three meetings with Klara Zakopalova, and all the three in straight sets, losing to the Czech 7-5 6-3 in Seoul. (photo: sydney-yokochin)

Top seed Alexandra Dulgheru and second seed Akgul Amanmuradova were upset in the quarterfinals of the Tashkent Open. At the other tournament played this week, Hansol Korea Open, top seed Nadia Petrova advanced to the quarterfinals, and defending champion Kimiko Date Krumm upset second seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.

Dulgheru lost to fellow Romanian Monica Niculescu 7-6(5) 2-6 6-3, while Alla Kudryavtseva, runner-up at Guangzhou during the weekend, defeated local favorite and two-time finalist Amanmuradova 7-6(5) 6-3.

At the Hansol Korea Open, Petrova rallied from 0-3 in the second set to defeat Vania King 6-3 6-4. Date Krumm, who will soon turn 40, played 20 years younger Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and defeated her 6-2 6-1 in the second round.

Former world No.1 Dinara Safina also advanced in Seoul, with a 6-2 6-3 victory over third seed Maria Kirilenko. (photo: © Neal Trousdale)