| French Open champion Ana Ivanovic has produced a maddeningly inconsistent display as she was stunned by Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska 6-1, 3-6, 6-4 at the WTA Rome International.
World number one Dinara Safina almost joined Ivanovic on the scrap-heap but fought back from a double break down in the third set to beat Chinese 14th seed Zheng Jie 5-7, 6-1, 7-6 (7-3).
Fifth seed Ivanovic had a disastrous start but regrouped and seemed to be cruising into the quarter-finals at 4-0 up in the third set after a run of winning 10 out of 13 games.
But just as her first set play had been terribly inconsistent, so her demons returned and 10th seed Radwanska reeled off the final six games to clinch the match.
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Thursday, 7 May, 2009
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