Tought day for Peer and Razzano; Mirza and Bammer cruise through

On Monday in Los Angeles, California, four seeds took the courts, but only two survived their battles. Shahar Peer was in bad shape along with Virginie Razzano, while Sania Mirza and Sybille Bammer cruised throught o the next round.

Peer, seeded No. 12, who got to the fourth round of Wimbledon, suffered her second straight early exit on hardcourts, badly losing to Samantha Stosur. Stosur needed just 52 minutes to finish the Israeli off in straight sets, 61 61. Stosur fired eight aces, and won 83% of her first serve points and nearly 60% of her second serve points.

"I think it was probably the best match I've played in the last couple of weeks," Stosur said. "I got off to a good start and got rolling from there. I was never really under pressure during the games. We've played each other a few times and I knew what to expect. Maybe I served a little bit better and mixed up the placement. I managed to get a few aces in there, too. It's the way you want to feel all the time. The more matches you play, the more confident you get. The way I felt tonight, I didn't have to think that much."

No. 13 seed Razzano was also suffering her opening match loss, to lucky loser Melinda Czink, 63 63. Razzano was having a bad season, only winning two matches in the six tournaments she entered. She hasn't won back-to-back matches since Amelia Island in April.

No. 16 seed Sania Mirza had better results than Peer nd Razzano, winning her debut match in straight sets to qualifier Eva Hrdinova, 63 64; and No. 14 seed Sybille Bammer easily demolished her American opponent, Ahsha Rolle, 60 64.

Other winners on Day 1 were Olga Govortsova, Marta Domachowska, Petra Kvitova, Chan Yung-Jan, Jill Craybas, Tamira Paszek, Olga Savchuk and wildcard Bethanie Mattek.