MADRID, Spain (AP) — Monica Seles was eliminated in her opening match at the Spanish Open, losing to Paraguay’s Rossana de los Rios 7-5, 2-6, 6-4 Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Seles was seeded first at the $170,000 clay-court tournament, but was bettered by a player ranked 72nd by the WTA. Seles and the other top seeds received byes into the second round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She pulled out of the Italian Open earlier this month with a foot injury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elsewhere, second-seeded Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario advanced when Barbara Rittner quit after losing the first set 7-6 (4).<\/p>\n\n\n\n In other matches involving seeded players, No. 3 Sandrine Testud beat Julia Vakulenko 6-0, 6-4, No. 6 Lisa Raymond defeated Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-2, 6-3, No. 7 Magui Serna outlasted Cara Black 6-4, 4-6, 6-1, and No. 8 Angeles Montolio came back to top Maria Antonio Sanchez Lorenzo 3-6, 6-1, 6-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MADRID, Spain (AP) — Monica Seles was eliminated in her opening match at the Spanish Open, losing to Paraguay’s Rossana de los Rios 7-5, 2-6, 6-4 Wednesday. Seles was seeded first at the $170,000 clay-court tournament, but was bettered by a player ranked 72nd by the WTA. Seles and the other top seeds received byes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monicaselessite.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monicaselessite.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monicaselessite.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monicaselessite.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monicaselessite.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monicaselessite.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monicaselessite.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monicaselessite.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monicaselessite.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}I didn't come as prepared as I thought,'' Seles said.<\/code>I was only able to train for three or four days after my injury and you could see that in my game.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nI would have liked to stay in the tournament,'' Seles said.<\/code>I came to tune up for (the French Open) and to play some matches after my injury. But it wasn’t to be.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n