As Day 2 of the East West Bank Classic flew by, one seed was ousted, but one seed was through. Anna Chakvetadze, the top seed was comfortable in her opening match, while Daniela Hantuchova, seeded 6th, was stunned in straight sets.
Nadia Petrova, Flavia Pennetta, Nicole Vaidisova and Dominika Cibulkova made it 4-0 for seeds in first round matches. No.9 seed Petrova beat qualifier Alina Jidkova, 60 64; No.10 seed Pennetta notched a 61 60 win over last week's Stanford winner, Aleksandra Wozniak; No.11 seed Vaidisova rallied from a set down to beat Ayumi Morita, 67(5) 63 61; and No.15 seed Cibulkova beat Monica Niculescu, 64 63.
Unseeded first round winners were Ai Sugiyama, Peng Shuai, Vania King, Yuan Meng, Stéphanie Dubois, Akgul Amanmuradova and qualifiers Alla Kudryavtseva and Regina Kulikova.
Stepahine Dubois beat American Ashley Harkleroad in straight sets, 62 63.
"I was aggressive and it was a good match for me; it was one of my good wins," Dubois said. "It wasn't the first time I played against her. I think we knew each other's games well. My game plan was to be aggressive, and it worked well for me today. It's the first time I've played here and I liked the way I competed."
Chakvetadze and Hantuchova both got byes in the first round, and played their second round matches on Tuesday night. Anna demolished her opponent, Marta Domachowska, easily in straight sets, 61 61, but Hantuchova had the completely opposite result, losing to Olga Govortsova, 62 64. That was Govortsova's four Top 20 win, and fifth in her career.
"I didn't do well in my last couple of tournaments but this week I'm feeling better; when I hit today before the match I was really feeling the groove," Govortsova said. "Daniela hits really deep and has a good serve, so to beat her you also have to be aggressive. So that's what I was trying to do in the match today."
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