Wozniacki crashes out in second round at US Open

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Caroline Wozniacki, of Denmark, gets her hair caught in her racket as she tries to return a shot to Aliaksandra Sasnovich, of Belarus, during the second round of the 2014 U.S. Open tennis tournament, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014, in New York. AP

NEW YORK, United States—Danish fourth seed Caroline Wozniacki was ousted from the US Open on Thursday by 149th-ranked Czech Petra Cetkovska, leaving only three of the top-10 women in the event.

Cetkovska outlasted Wozniacki 6-4, 5-7, 7-6 (7/1) in a night match at Arthur Ashe Stadium to book a third-round match against Italian 26th seed Flavia Pennetta.

With the departure of former world number one Wozniacki, the US Open runner-up in 2009 and last year, the only top-10 seeds remaining in the year’s final Grand Slam tournament from the original draw are top-ranked Serena Williams, Romanian second seed Simona Halep and Czech fifth seed Petra Kvitova.