Italy’s second seed Camilla Rosatello was knocked out in the opening match of the Wrexham Open by Slovakia’s Katarina Kuzmova.
Rosatello dropped the first set but bounced back to win the second on a tie-break to force a deciding set.
However, the 30-year-old was broken early in that final set by Kuzmova, and went on to lose 7-6 (7-4) 6-7 (4-7) 6-4.
There was to be no such problem for fourth seed Kathinka von Deichmann of Liechtenstein or fifth seed Raluca Georgiana Serban of Cyprus.
Serban was forced to do things the hard way, however, after dropping the first set against Great Britain’s Ranah Akua Stoiber.
