EASTBOURNE (England), June 20: The three leading women’s seeds and men’s top seed Richard Gasquet were toppled in short order on Tuesday at the Eastbourne International grass-court event with Wimbledon winner Petra Kvitova leading the exit.

The Czech, seeded second, was joined on the sidelines by top seed Agnieszka Radwanska and No 3 Caroline Wozniacki. Radwanska lost to Bulgarian Tsvetana Pironkova 6-2, 6-4 while former number one Wozniacki fell to American Christina McHale 6-1, 6-7, 6-4.

Men’s top seed Gasquet joined the day’s upset list as the Frenchman lost to Australian Marinko Matosevic 1-6, 7-6, 7-6 after two and a half hours and 13 aces.

Results (prefix number denotes seeding): Men’s singles: Second round: Marinko Matosevic (Australia) bt 1-Richard Gasquet (France) 1-6, 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (7-3).

First round: 6-Andy Roddick (US) bt Sam Querrey (US) 5-2 – Querrey retired; 7-Philipp Kohlschreiber (Germany) bt Go Soeda (Japan) 6-4, 7-5; Lu Yen-Hsun (Taiwan) bt 5-Julien Benneteau (France) 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (7-4); Steve Darcis (Belgium) bt Matthew Ebden (Australia) 6-2, 6-4; Denis Istomin (Uzbekistan) bt Michael Llodra (France) 6-4, 6-3.

Women’s singles: First round: Stephanie Dubois (Canada) bt Carla Suarez Navarro (Spain) 6-4, 6-4; Heather Watson (Britain) bt Greta Arn (Germany) 6-3, 6-4; 7-Lucie Safarova (Czech Republic) bt Timea Babos (Hungary) 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (8-6); 9-Petra Cetkovska (Czech Republic) bt Andrea Hlavackova (Czech Republic) 3-6, 6-2, 6-1; Christina McHale (US) bt 3-Caroline Wozniacki (Denmark) 6-1, 6-7 (7-9), 6-4; 4-Marion Bartoli (France) bt Sorana Cirstea (Romania) 6-2, 6-2; Laura Robson (Britain) bt Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez (Spain) 3-6, 6-2, 6-2; Tsvetana Pironkova (Bulgaria) bt 1-Agnieszka Radwanska (Poland) 6-2, 6-4; Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Russia) bt Hsieh Su-Wei (Taiwan) 6-2, 3-0 –Su-Wei retired; Klara Zakopalova (Czech Republic) bt Zheng Jie (China) 6-3, 4-6, 6-3; 5-Angelique Kerber (Germany) bt Elena Vesnina (Russia) 3-6, 6-0, 7-5; Ekaterina Makarova (Russia) bt 2-Petra Kvitova (Czech Republic) 7-5, 6-4.

CLIJSTERS IN LAST EIGHT

DEN BOSCH (Netherlands): Kim Clijsters advanced to the Den Bosch Open quarter-finals with an easy 6-2, 6-1 victory over Kateryna Bondarenko on Tuesday.

The win on grass a week ahead of Wimbledon was just Clijsters’ second since returning from a three-month hip injury. She lost the opening set to Romina Oprandi on Sunday and struggled in the second before taking control of that match.

Among the men, top seed David Ferrer of Spain beat Pierre-Ludovic Duclos of Canada 6-4, 6-4 in a first-round match.

Results: Men’s singles: First round: 1-David Ferrer (Spain) bt Pierre-Ludovic Duclos (Canada) 6-4, 6-4; Edouard Roger-Vasselin (France) bt 7-Alex Bogomolov Jr (Russia) 6-4, 6-4; 8-Lukasz Kubot (Poland) bt Dudi Sela (Israel) 6-1, 6-2; Flavio Cipolla (Italy) bt Potito Starace (Italy) 4-2 – Starace retired; Xavier Malisse (Belgium) bt 2-Viktor Troicki (Serbia) 7-6 (7-4), 6-2

Women’s singles: Second round: Kim Clijsters (Belgium) bt Kateryna Bondarenko (Ukraine) 6-2, 6-1; Urszula Radwanska (Poland) bt 4-Flavia Pennetta (Italy) 6-1, 6-1; 3-Dominika Cibulkova (Slovakia) bt Shahar Peer (Israel) 6-2, 7-6 (7-5); 8-Nadia Petrova (Russia) bt Anabel Medina Garrigues (Spain) 7-5, 6-3.

First round: Daria Gavrilova (Russia) bt Yanina Wickmayer (Belgium) 6-1, 6-2. Sofia Arvidsson (Sweden) bt 7-Jelena Jankovic (Serbia) 6-2, 3-6, 6-4.—Agencies