Safina, Dementieva among seeded winners on Day 2 in Sydney

On Monday in Sydney, some young stars took the courts, while three of four seeds in action advanced to the second round.

No. 2 seed Dinara Safina was one of seeds that succeeded, winning to Sorana Cirstea 62 61. No. 8 seed Caroline Woznaicki had a score which was similar to Dinara's, as she won to Dominika Cibulkova 61 62. No. 3 seed Elena Dementieva was also in good form in her first match of the week, as she ousted Ekaterina Makarova 75 61.

The only seed who didn't go through was No. 7 seed Nadia Petrova, who fell to Alize Cornet in easy straight sets, 62 64.

Monday, January 12, 2009

Singles - First Round(2) Dinara Safina (RUS) d. Sorana Cirstea (ROU) 62 61

(3) Elena Dementieva (RUS) d. Ekaterina Makarova (RUS) 75 61

Alizé Cornet (FRA) d. (7) Nadia Petrova (RUS) 62 64

(8) Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) d. Dominika Cibulkova (SVK) 61 62

Daniela Hantuchova (SVK) d. (Q) Klara Zakopalova (CZE) 63 60

Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP) d. (LL) Anastasiya Yakimova (BLR) 61 36 63

Kaia Kanepi (EST) d. (Q) Angelique Kerber (GER) 61 75

Ai Sugiyama (JPN) d. (LL) Jill Craybas (USA) 62 63

Alisa Kleybanova (RUS) d. Maria Kirilenko (RUS) 62 62

Sara Errani (ITA) d. Casey Dellacqua (AUS) 61 62

(Q) Vera Dushevina (RUS) d. (WC) Emelyn Starr (AUS) 60 61

(Q) Melanie South (GBR) d. Marion Bartoli (FRA) 11 ret. (left calf strain)

(WC) Jarmila Gajdosova (SVK) d. (LL) Karin Knapp (ITA) 64 62