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Hungarian world champion and three-time Olympic silver medallist Laszlo Cseh (front) and Zsuzsanna Jakabos swim as they test their new Arena swimming suits in Budapest May 27, 2009. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh

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    Open-Kuznetsova raises claim for top spot

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    Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia returns a shot to Shuai Zhang of China during their match at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in Flushing Meadows, New York August 25, 2008. REUTERS/Ray Stubblebine

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    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former champion Svetlana Kuznetsova recovered from a slow start to beat Romanian teenager Sorana Cirstea 7-6 6-1 to reach the third round of the U.S. Open on Wednesday.

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    World number 53 Cirstea, in her first U.S. Open, had the 2004 champion worried when she broke in the sixth game to take a 4-2 lead.

    But the Russian third seed broke straight back, won the tiebreak 7-3 and then ripped through the second set to seal a third-round clash with Slovenian 28th seed Katarina Srebotnik or Austrian Yvonne Meusburger.

    (Reporting by Simon Cambers, editing by Pritha Sarkar)
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