Seeded players Flavia Pennetta and Francesca Schiavone had a hard time in their first grass court matches; Schiavone fell to American Ashley Harkleroad 63 64, while Pennetta crashed out to Sania Mirza with a similar score 64 63. Harkleroad's win over the world No.20 was the ninth Top 20 win of her career, and second of the year after beating Dinara Safina at Indian Wells; Mirza's win was her first since returning to the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour from a near-three month lay-off due to a right wrist injury.
Other seeds that took action on day 2 were No. 7 seed Katarina Srebotnik, who got revenge from a loss in the Strasbourg final, winning 62 46 63 to Anabel Medina Garrigues; No. 8 seed Alona Bondarenko, who breezed through with a win over qualifier Iveta Benesova, 64 46 64; and No. 3 seed Dinara Safina, who was lately in the Roland Garros final, won handily to Pauline Parmentier, 64 61.
Also advancing to the second round were Sara Errani, a 76(5) 62 winner over Anne Keothavong; qualifier Marina Erakovic, who beat Alexis Gordon, 61 61; and another qualifier, Angelique Kerber, who took out Klara Zakopalova, 64 36 64.
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