Sanchez-Vicario beaten by French teenager

Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario became the first seed to fall in the second round of the $565,000 Los Angeles women's Classic on Monday when she lost to French teenager Virginie Razzano 3-6 6-1 6-4.

"It is very good to get a victory over Arantxa because she's in the Top 20," said the 83rd-ranked Razzano.

"It was a very good match, and I played very well."

While Razzano stung the Spanish world number 18, eleventh seed Jelena Dokic of Yugoslavia had little difficulty speeding past German Marlene Weingartner 6-2 6-1 in just 51 minutes.

"She was difficult to play," said Dokic, who converted seven of nine break chances. But I played well, I played solid, and just played my game."

Sanchez Vicario took the opening set quite comfortably but the ninth-seeded Spanish star caved in as Razzano picked up her ground game.

In the deciding set, Razzano trailed 3-2 after double-faulting away games one and five. However, the 18-year-old wild card entry broke back in the sixth game to pull back to 3-3.

She rifled down an ace on game point in the seventh game, and used a decisive break in the next to go ahead 5-3.

Sanchez-Vicario held off one match point to pull to within 5-4. However, Razzano erased a break point of her own and held serve to wrap up the 94-minute victory when the former world number one dumped a backhand into the net.

Razzano's reward is a third round matchup with either American Krstina Brandi or seventh-seeded Russian Elena Dementieva.

Sanchez-Vicario was joined on the sidelines by seeds Barbara Schett and Chanda Rubin in the night programme.

Daja Bedanova of the Czech Republic beat the 13th seeded Austrian 6-4 6-2 shortly after the 16th seeded American was sent crashing by the hard-serving Australian, Alicia Molik 6-1 7-6 (7-4).

"That could well be my biggest win," said Molik, who slammed her seventh ace on match point to complete the 87-minute sweep of the world number 23. "It was a matter of being positive and its the best I've played in a long time."

After being handed first round byes, the tournament's big guns head into action on Tuesday.

Top seed Martina Hingis of Switzerland plays Lilia Osterloh of the U.S and the two-time defending champion Serena Williams faces off against fellow American Jennifer Hopkins.