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TORONTO -- Eugenie Bouchard couldnt hide her frustration Wednesday night at the Rogers Cup. The rising Canadian womens tennis star first tossed a racket on top of her bag after blowing a double-break point opportunity during the final set of a second-round loss to Petra Kvitova. The racket was on the move again moments later as Bouchard threw it to the ground after double-faulting to give the defending champion a service break. The racket bounced up and almost struck her in the face. The sixth-seeded Czech went on to close out the 6-3, 6-2 win in 86 minutes at Rexall Centre. "I felt like I wasnt playing my best, especially serving-wise," Bouchard said. "I usually rely on my serve to dominate the point and control. I wasnt doing that as well today so I was definitely a little bit frustrated." While composed for the rest of the match, the loss was a definite learning experience for the 19-year-old from Montreal. The 2012 Wimbledon junior champ can also build on her first turn in the Rogers Cup spotlight after playing two straight nights in the showcase match on centre court. Kvitova used her strong serve and powerful ground strokes to keep Bouchard on her heels. She seemed to have a read on Bouchards game, eating up the cut shots and drops that were working a night earlier for the young Canadian. Kvitova also seemed to have a knack for winning the key points, helped at times by Bouchards unforced errors. "I think it was a hard-fought battle and tougher than the score would indicate," Bouchard said. The wild-card entry, currently ranked 62nd in the world, is in her first full season as a pro on the WTA Tour. Bouchard has posted some impressive wins this year and is trying her best to soak up the experience each week. "I know I can hang with the top girls," she said. "You know, in the points, we hit a lot of competitive points today. Obviously she would come on top of more than I did, so its just about working on being more consistent and being able to finish the points like she does and hopefully get better that way." Earlier in the day, Jelena Jankovic knocked out the other Canadian left in the singles draw of the US$2.369-million tournament. The veteran Serb defeated Torontos Sharon Fichman 6-4, 7-6 (6). Top-seeded Serena Williams made quick work of her first opponent by defeating Italys Francesca Schiavone 6-3, 6-2. Williams, who received a first-round bye, needed 75 minutes to complete the victory. Her next opponent will be 13th-seeded Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium, who posted a 7-5, 3-6, 6-2 win over Kiki Bertens of the Netherlands. "I felt good, I felt solid," Williams said. "I obviously made a few errors but its just my first match on hard (court) in a really long time. I also played a really good player so it was a good match." There was one minor upset in the early afternoon as 11th-seeded Russian Maria Kirilenko dropped a 7-5, 7-5 decision to Alize Cornet of France. In the late match on the grandstand court, Sorana Cirstea of Romania upset ninth-seeded Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark 5-7, 7-6 (0), 6-4. Seventh-seeded Marion Bartoli of France looked strong in her first competitive match since winning at Wimbledon last month. She defeated American qualifier Lauren Davis in straight sets. "I didnt want to put too much pressure on myself because the last two times I played in Toronto I lost first round," she said. "So I just wanted to enjoy myself on the court and try my hardest. Obviously being able to win 6-0, 6-3 was pretty good for me." Several seeded players posted comfortable straight-set victories. Fourth-seeded Li Na of China beat Russias Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-1, 6-4, fifth-seeded Sara Errani of Italy topped Klara Zakopalova 6-2, 7-6 (2) and 10th-seeded Roberta Vinci of Italy downed Ekaterina Makarova of Russia 6-0, 6-4. Also Wednesday, No. 16 seed Ana Ivanovic of Serbia beat Italys Flavia Pennetta 6-4, 6-4 and American Sloane Stephens, the No. 14 seed, got by Germanys Mona Barthel 6-3, 4-6, 6-3. No. 12 seed Samantha Stosur of Australia defeated Spains Carla Suarez Navarro 1-6, 6-2, 6-3 and Magdalena Rybarikova of Slovakia defeated American Varvara Lepchenko 6-4, 6-2. In first-round doubles play, Fichman and Ottawa native Gabriela Dabrowski beat Pavlyuchenkova and Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic 6-4, 6-7 (5), 10-8. There was a short rain delay in the morning due to wet weather. Warm, sunny and breezy conditions were the norm through the afternoon and into the evening. 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LONDON -- Now that Russian track and field athletes have failed in their effort to have their Olympic ban overturned, its up to the IOC to decide whether to kick the entire Russian team out of the games that begin in Rio de Janeiro in 15 days.In another blow to the image of the sports superpower, the highest court in sports on Thursday dismissed an appeal by 68 Russian track athletes of the ban imposed by the IAAF following allegations of systematic and state-sponsored doping.Sports officials in Moscow condemned the ruling as political, and said some athletes might take their case to civil courts. Two-time Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva said the Rio Games will be devalued, with only pseudo-gold medals available.In its ruling, the Court of Arbitration for Sport found that track and fields world governing body, the IAAF, had properly applied its own rules in keeping the Russians out of the games that begin Aug. 5.The three-man panel ruled that the Russian Olympic Committee is not entitled to nominate Russian track and field athletes to compete at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games considering that they are not eligible to participate under the IAAF competition rules.The Russians had argued against a collective ban, saying it punishes those athletes who have not been accused of wrongdoing.The IAAF praised the decision, saying: Todays judgment has created a level playing field for athletes.IAAF President Sebastian Coe, who has declared the ban is crucial to protecting the integrity of the competition, said it was not a day for triumphant statements.I didnt come into this sport to stop athletes from competing, he said. It is our federations instinctive desire to include, not exclude.Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko suggested Russia could take the case to a civil court. CAS general secretary Matthieu Reeb said the Russians have the right to appeal to the Swiss federal tribunal within 30 days, but only on procedural grounds, not the merits of the decision. Olympic bodies and athletes sign up to CAS jurisdiction, and its rulings have very rarely been overturned.Reeb said the ruling is not binding on the International Olympic Committee, which has the final say as the supreme organizer of the games. However, the IOC last month accepted the IAAF decision to maintain its ban on the Russian athletes.The door is open for the IOC to decide, to determine even on a case-by-case principle whether these athletes are eligible or not, Reeb told reporters outside the court headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland.While the ruling clears the way for other individual sports federations to apply similar bans on Russians, it also increases pressure on the IOC to take the unprecedented step of excluding the whole Russian team. The IOC has never banned an entire country from the games for doping, and the last time Russia missed the Olympics was in 1984, when the Soviet Union boycotted the Los Angeles Games.The World Anti-Doping Agency, along with many national anti-doping bodies and athletes groups, have called on the IOC to impose a total ban on Russia following fresh allegations of state-orchestrated cheating across dozens of Olympic sports.Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren, who was commissioned by WADA, issued a scathing report Monday that accused Russias Sports Ministry of orchestrating a doping system that affected 28 summer and winter Olympic sports. Officers of Russias intelligence service, the FSB, were also involved in the cheating, which included swapping of doping samples at the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, McLaren found.On Tuesday, the IOC executive board said it would explore the legal options for a possible total ban on Russia but would wait until after the CAS ruling before making a final decision.The IOCC executive board is scheduled to hold another emergency meeting Sunday via teleconference to consider the issue.dddddddddddd In a statement Thursday, the IOC said it takes note of the CAS ruling upholding the track and field ban.We will now have to study and analyze the full decision, the IOC said. The IOC decision on the participation of the Russian athletes will be taken in the coming days.Former WADA president Dick Pound, an IOC member from Canada, accused the IOC of dithering and said the committee does not show the appetite to apply a total ban.Youve got the power to simply withdraw the invitation and say, `Sorry, your country has not demonstrated any understanding or respect of rules for clean competition. Youre not welcome, Pound said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.Pound, who authored a WADA report last year that detailed cheating in Russia and led to the IAAF ban, criticized the IOC for suggesting that individual federations could decide whether to exclude Russian athletes in their own sports, rather than imposing a complete ban itself.Why is the IOC not acting in the face of incontrovertible evidence of government interference? he said. What else do you need?A group of 14 national anti-doping agencies sent a letter to IOC President Thomas Bach urging a complete ban to uphold the Olympic Charter and the integrity of the Rio Olympic Games. Among the countries represented in the letter were the United States, Canada, Germany, New Zealand and Austria.Germanys Olympic committee president Alfons Hoermann said the CAS verdict was a clear signal to the IOC.Where we have systematic cheating, we also must have systematic punishment, he said.As it stands, the IAAF has approved just two Russians to compete, as neutral athletes, after they showed they had been training and living abroad under a robust drug-testing regime. One is doping whistleblower and 800-meter runner Yulia Stepanova; the other is Florida-based long jumper Darya Klishina.Mutko said a Russian government committee will be formed to examine the McLaren report.He added Russian athletes will continue to defend their honor and dignity even though any legal proceedings may not be held before the games begin.Russia canceled a ceremonial send-off Friday for its Olympic athletes heading to Rio.Isinbayeva, the pole vault world record holder who is the face and voice of Russian track and field, told the state news agency Tass that the ruling marked the funeral of her sport.She had been aiming for her fifth Olympics and was a leading voice in calling for the ban to be overturned, even speaking at Tuesdays CAS hearing.In comments on her Instagram page, Isinbayeva suggested that some of her foreign rivals could be doping and wanted Russia banned to make the competition easier.Let all these pseudo-clean foreign athletes breathe a sigh of relief and win their pseudo-gold medals without us, she said. Theyve always been frightened of strength.Bans for individual dopers are fair, but not the exclusion of a whole team, hurdler Timofey Chaly argued.Its dishonest, he said. There are people who decided for themselves that they can dope and maybe somehow theyd get away with it. That didnt happen and they got bans. Thats fair.Vera Rebrik, who won gold in the javelin for Ukraine at the European Championships before switching her allegiance to Russia after the annexation of Crimea in 2014, was left out by the ruling.I dont know whether to laugh or cry. ... I cant find the words, she told Russian state broadcaster Match TV.---AP Sports Writers Graham Dunbar and James Ellingworth in Zhukovsky, Russia, contributed. ' ' '