Russian No. 3 seed
Tatiana Panova was a seeded upset victim on day one at the WTA stop in Hyderabad, India, dismissed in straight sets by Israel's
Shahar Peer.
"The break point in the fifth game of the first set gave me the confidence that I can win," Peer said. "I knew that to win I would have to make her run around."
Two other two seeds moved comfortably into the second round in straight sets in (4)
Jie Zheng (d. Voskoboeva) and (9) Alyona Bondarenko (d. Bhambri).
Hyderabad, a tour-level event, had no players within the Top 50 as of the entry deadline.
Other unseeded winners into the second round Monday were
Roberta Vinci (d. Salerni), Marie-Eve Pelletier (d. Bychkova in three), Tian Tian Sun (d. Nemeckova), and
Tzipora Obziler (d. (7) Kurhajcova).
On tap for Tuesday in India are Santangelo vs. Dokic, Uberoi vs. Czink, Sescioreanu vs. Mirza, Gajdosova vs. Li Ting, Dominikovic vs. Hisamatsu, Li vs. Mikaelian, Tanasugarn vs. Amanmuradova, Minella vs. Groenefeld, and Mouthassine vs. Kirilenko.
