Schiavone, seeded 14th, beat Paszek last year in the first round here, but Paszek got her revenge, and prevailed against the Italian, 76(4) 16 61. It was their fourth career meeting, and now they are equal at 2-2.
"I think she's the player I've played her most times," the 17-year-old Paszek said. "We always have really, really tough matches when we play each other. She was playing more aggressively in the second set and I think that's what made the difference, but I'm happy I was able to get it back in the third."
Schiavone has now lost in her opening matches twice in a row, in Stanford two weeks ago, she fell to Canadian Aleksandra Wozniak.
The other seeds in action on monday won their matches, but with a it of struggle. No. 9 Patty Schyder had a slow start against Yuan Meng, trailing 5-1 in the first set, and later having to face four match points, but the Swiss was able to win the set eventually, and didn't have to finish the second, when Yuan retired due to a thigh injury, 76(6) 32. Marion bartoli seeded 10th, also had a bit of a struggle in the first two sets against Melanie South, but she came back to win the third set and match easily, 63 67(5) 60.
A wave of unseeded Top 50 players moved through in straight sets, as Shahar Peer beat Sabine Lisicki, 63 64; Virginie Razzano beat Aravane Rezai, 61 62; Dominika Cibulkova beat Elena Vesnina, 61 61; and Tamarine Tanasugarn beat Olivia Sanchez, 63 61. Other winners were Petra Kvitova, Anastasia Rodionova, Monica Niculescu, qualifiers Alla Kudryavtseva and Michelle Larcher de Brito and finally Canadian wildcard Stéphanie Dubois, who was ahead 61 42 on Olga Govortsova when the Belarusian retired with a right hip injury.
The only singles match postponed due to rain was No.12 seed Nadia Petrova's opener against Canadian wildcard Marie-Ève Pelletier.
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