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Dubai, United Arab Emirates (Sports Network) - Fifth seed Agnieszka
Radwanska and former world No. 1 Ana Ivanovic moved on, while sixth-seeded
Marion Bartoli was a first-round upset victim Tuesday at the $2 million
Dubai Duty Free Championships.
Radwanska snuck past Canadian qualifier Aleksandra Wozniak 6-1, 6-7 (6-8),
7-5, while the former French Open champion Ivanovic upset seventh-seeded
Francesca Schiavone 6-1, 7-5 on the hardcourts at Dubai Tennis Stadium. The
Italian Schiavone was last year's French Open runner-up and titled at Roland
Garros two years ago.
China's Peng Shuai upended the former Wimbledon runner-up Bartoli 6-4, 6-3 on
Day 2.
Other opening-round wins came for Czechs Lucie Safarova and qualifier Iveta
Benesova, Romanian Simona Halep, and Slovak Daniela Hantuchova.
The second round will be staged with eight matches here on Wednesday.
including ones for world No. 1 Victoria Azarenka, former top-ranked star
Caroline Wozniacki and fourth-seeded U.S. Open champ Samantha Stosur. The
Australian Open winner Azarenka beat Stosur in last week's final in Doha.
Azarenka will face German Julia Goerges on Wednesday, while the third-seeded
Wozniacki will meet the qualifier Halep and Stosur will take on Safarova.
Wozniacki is the reigning Dubai titlist, having beaten Russian Svetlana
Kuznetsova in last year's final here.
Azarenka, who was the Dubai runner-up two years ago, is off to a flawless 17-0
start this season, with three titles, including her first-ever major
championship last month in Melbourne.
The 2012 Dubai champion will earn $446,778.
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