Patty Schnyder cruised through to the second round, but both Nadia Petrova and Francesca Schiavone were ousted, as the first round at Stanford was ended with mixed results.
Scnhyder, the fifth seed, needed just 44 minutes to demolish wildcard Amber Liu, 61 61. Schnyder lost only 5 points on her serve and won nearly two thirds of the points on Liu's serve on the way to the quick and easy victory. This is Schnyder's 20th victory of the year.
Petrova and Schiavone weren't playing as well as Schnyder, as they both lost their first round matches. Petrova, seeded seventh, was stunned by Domininka Cibulkova in a three-setter, 64 36 63, and Schiavone, seeded eighth, fell to qualifier Aleksandra Wozniak, 26 63 62. Cibulkova's win over the No.17-ranked Petrova was her fourth Top 20 win of the year; Wozniak's win over the No.20-ranked Schiavone was a first career Top 20 win for the big-hitting Canadian.
On Monday, the only other Top 8 seed to contest a first round match, No.6 seed Marion Bartoli, won through to the second round. The Top 4 seeds - Serena Williams, Anna Chakvetadze, Vera Zvonareva and Daniela Hantuchova - all got first round byes and will begin their week in the second round.
Winners in matches between unseeded players were Shahar Peer, who defeated qualifier Melinda Czink, 75 60; qualifier Michelle Larcher de Brito, who beat Gisela Dulko, 75 76(1); lucky loser Samantha Stosur, who beat Anastasia Rodionova, 63 61; and qualifier Anne Keothavong, who beat Sania Mirza, 76(4) 61.
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