No. 6 seed
Shenay Perry and No. 8
Olga Poutchkova combined to give the seeds a 2-0 record on opening day Monday at the Bell Challenge in Quebec City.
The American Perry outlasted
Melinda Czink 6-2, 3-6, 6-3, while the 20-year-old Russian Poutchkova ran over Canadian wildcard
Valerie Tetreault 6-0, 6-2.
Other winners Monday were American
Laura Granville (d. Kostanic), Slovak
Martina Sucha (d. Rubin), and Canadian
Aleksandra Wozniak (d. Jidkova).