Top-seeded
Na Li of China led all four seeds in play into the second round Tuesday at the WTA stop in Hyderabad, India, defeating Swiss Marie-Gayanay Mikaelian 6-3, 6-3.
Other seeded winners on the day were (2) Anna-Lena Groenefeld (d. (Q) Minella), (6)Tamarine Tansugarn (d. (Q) Amanmuradova 6-1 in the third), and (8)
Maria Kirilenko (d. (LL) Poutchek).
Former Top 10er Jelena Dokic, currently ranking outside the Top 200 on the WTA Rankings, hobbled to a straight-set loss to
Mara Santangelo, nursing an injured thigh.
Other un-seeds into round two in Hyderabad were
Melinda Czink (d. Uberoi, coming from a set down), India's sweetheart
Sania Mirza (d. Sescioreanu), Evie Dominikovic (d. (LL) Hisamatsu), and (Q)
Jarmila Gajdosova (d. (Q) Ting).
On tap for Wednesday in This-Field-is-Bad are Bondarenko vs. Czink, Zheng vs. Mirza, Dominikovic vs. Obziler, Pelletier vs. Peer, Tanasugarn vs. Sun, Santangelo vs. Kirilenko, Gajdosova vs. Groenefeld, and Li vs. Salerni.
