CORRECTED: Top players puzzled by women's cour

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By Kylie MacLellan

LONDON (Reuters) - Less than a month after being the toast of Paris by winning the French Open, Svetlana Kuznetsova has had to get used to life a little further away from centre stage at Wimbledon.

The Russian is not the only one raising eyebrows at the puzzling court schedule for matches involving top players, with compatriot and world number one Dinara Safina less than happy.

Fifth seed Kuznetsova, yet to play a match on The All England Club's 15,000 seater Centre Court in this year's tournament, had to make do with the much smaller 2,200 seater Court Three for her second round match Thursday.

But she was not alone in her demotion from the limelight, with top seed Safina and five-time champion Venus Williams also failing to make it on to the Centre Court order of play.

A somewhat surprised Safina said: "Hopefully, next match I'll play on a bigger court. Of course, it's not fair."

Ninth seed Caroline Wozniacki's 6-0 6-4 defeat of unseeded opponent Maria Kirilenko was the only women's match to feature on the main show court for Thursday's second round matches.

"I'm fine to be wherever they want to put me. They don't have to put me Centre Court," Kuznetsova told reporters. "But if you look at the schedule, it's not about only me."