Indian Wells, CA (My Sportsbook) - Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain upended No. 1 seeded Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova, 6-4, 4-6, 6-1, in second-round action at the $4.5 million BNP Paribas Open tennis event.
Navarro's victory was the only significant upset Saturday at the beautiful Indian Wells Tennis Garden.
Three other seeded players bowed out Saturday, including No. 21 Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia, who was broken by Italy's Roberta Vinci on the match's final game, falling 6-3, 7-5.
Other upsets came from Italian Sara Errani, who beat 26th-seeded Dominika Cibulkova 7-5, 6-4 and Latvian Anastasija Sevastova, who topped 24th-seeded Ana Ivanovic, 6-2, 6-4.
Third-seeded Victoria Azarenka of Belarus rolled to a 6-1, 7-5 win over Sybille Bammer of Austria; No. 9 Flavia Pennetta of Italy dropped Czech Petra Kvitova, 6-3, 6-3; and No. 13 Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium bested Germany's Julia Goerges, 6-2, 6-4.
Other high seeds advancing were No. 6 Jelena Jankovic and No. 8 Samantha Stosur. Jankovic, of Serbia, beat Croatia's Petra Martic, 6-3, 7-6 (7-2), while Stosur, of Australia, sent Julie Coin home in a 6-1, 7-6 (7-4) decision.
Kim Clijsters of Belgium, seeded 14th in this tournament, needed a mere 57 minutes to drop Barbora Zahlavova Strycova of the Czech Republic, 6-2, 6-1.
Also on Saturday, 12th-seeded Vera Zvonareva of Russia defeated qualifying American Sloane Stevens -- who won her first-ever WTA Tour match earlier in this tournament -- 6-4, 7-5; 17th-seeded Shahar Peer of Israel downed American Bethanie Mattek-Sands, 6-2, 6-3; 23rd-seeded Alisa Kleybanova of Russia ousted Tsvetana Pironkova of Bulgaria, 6-7 (5-7), 6-3, 6-1; No. 25 Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova downed Croat Karolina Sprem, 6-3, 6-1; 27th-seeded Agnes Szavay of Hungary got the better of Yung-Jan Chan, 6-3, 6-2; and 28th-seeded Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez of Spain defeated Romania's Alexandra Dulgheru, 2-6, 6-3, 6-1.
This week's 32 seeds all received byes into the second round.
Vera Zvonareva bested 2008 Indian Wells champ Ana Ivanovic in last year's finale here.
The 2010 Indian Wells winner will earn a hefty $700,000.
