Julia Goerges was the biggest casualty as the seeds tumbled in the first round of the Nurnberger Gastein Ladies in Bad Gastein.
Goerges the biggest name to fall in first rounmd full of shocks
Defending champion Julia Goerges was the biggest casualty as the seeds tumbled in the first round of the Nurnberger Gastein Ladies in Bad Gastein.
Top seed Goerges - who won her first WTA Tour title at the event last year - was broken five times as she crashed 6-1 2-6 6-1 to world number 94 Laura Pous-Tio of Spain.
And second seed Jarmila Gajdosova of Australia also made a hasty exit as she was beaten 6-4 6-2 by Sweden's Johanna Larsson, who continued the form that saw her reach the final in Bastad last week.
The upsets did not stop there, with fifth-seeded Spaniard Lourdes Dominguez Lino beaten 6-0 7-6 by Austrian wild card Patricia Mayr-Achleitner, and seventh seed Barbora Zahlavova-Strycova losing 7-6 6-2 to Spain's Carla Suarez Navarro.
Eighth seed Ksenia Pervak of Russia was the only seed to win, beating Alize Cornet 7-6 6-2.
Russia's Alla Kudryavtseva suffered a shock 6-1 6-1 hammering by Slovenian qualifier Nastja Kolar, ranked 309th in the world, and Bulgaria's Dia Evtimova was another qualifier to win through after beating Melanie Klaffner 6-1 6-0.
Among the other winners on the second day were Petra Martic, Kristina Barrois and Kateryna Bondarenko. The latter, though, saw sister Alona crash out 6-3 7-6 to Yvonne Meusberger.
There were victories for two further Spanish players, with Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez beating Argentina's Paula Ormaechea in successive tie-breaks and Arantxa Parra Santonja a three-set winner over Olga Govortsova.
