On the day of her 24thbirthday, Russian fifth seed Kuznetsova was also dumped out by an unseeded teenager, losing 6-2 7-5 to 19-year-old German Sabine Lisicki.
Stuart Broad picked up man-of-the-match plaudits for a haul of 4-44 which featured his 100th ODI wicket on his 24thbirthday and made him the youngest Englishman to achieve the landmark.
And it was apt that Tatyana McFadden, who won her first wheelchair race in Boston just before the explosions, shrugged off security concerns in London to mark her 24thbirthday with a second title this week.