Five Seeds Advance, Dulko Ousted at WTA Strasbourg

Five seeds in action advanced Tuesday at the WTA stop in Strasbourg in (3) Nathalie Dechy (d. Zi), (4) Anabel Medina Garrigues (d. Frazier), (5) Marion Bartoli (d. (Q) Gajdosova, bagel in the first), (7) Zheng Jie (d. (Q) Y.Meng from a set down), and (8) Jelena Jankovic (d. Bammer who retired with injury).

Unseeded players into the second round Tuesday were China's Li Na (d. Bychkova) and Peng Shuai (d. (6) Dulko), Germans Martina Muller (d. Vinci) and Julia Schruff (d. Laine), Russian Elena Vesnina (d. (Q) Knapp 7-6 in the third), Switzerland's Timea Bacsinszky (d. Raymond 6-1 in the third), Israel's Anna Smashnova (d. (Q) Keothavong), and Japan's Aiko Nakamura (d. countrywoman Asagoe).

On tap for Wedensday in Strasbourg are Medina Garrigues vs. Nakamura, Bacsinszky vs. Vaidisova, Schnyder vs. Muller, N.Li vs. Dechy, Schruff vs. Peng, Zheng vs. Domachowska, Vesnina vs. Bartoli, and Jankovic vs. Smashnova.