Peng, Li into second round at Luxembourg championship
21/10/2008 17:35
Chinese Li Na and Peng Shuai both booked easy victories to advance into
the second round at the Luxembourg championship women's tennis event
yesterday.
Sixth-seeded Li breezed past unheralded host player Mandy Minella
6-2, 6-1 while Peng also won in straight sets, beating Russian Vera Dushevina
6-1, 6-2.
Second-seeded Anna Chakvetadze reached the second round by beating
Mathilde Johansson of France 6-4, 7-6 (7-4).
Chakvetadze had lost six of her
last seven matches, but the Russian jumped out to a 5-2 lead in the first set
and a 4-2 lead in the second. She will face either Iveta Benesova or 14-year-old
Laura Robson of Britain in the next round.
Third-seeded Daniela Hantuchova of
Slovakia defeated Pauline Parmentier of France 6-2, 7-5 and Sabine Lisicki of
Germany beat Sofia Arvidsson of Sweden 2-6, 6-3, 6-4. Sara Errani of Italy
defeated Marina Erakovic of New Zealand 4-6, 6-2, 7-5.
Xinhua
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