Top seeds Marion Bartoli and Samantha
Stosur were among Wednesday's round-robin winners at the $600,000 Tournament
of Champions tennis event.
Bartoli (1-0) handled 11th-seeded Slovakian Magdalena Rybarikova 6-4, 6-4,
while Stosur (1-0) held off ninth-seeded Hungarian Agnes Szavay 6-2, 3-6, 6-1
on the indoor hardcourts at the Bali International Convention Centre.
Meanwhile, third-seeded Belgian Yanina Wickmayer (1-0) got past 12th-seeded
Japanese veteran Kimiko Date Krumm 7-6 (7-5), 6-3 and 10th-seeded Frenchwoman
Aravane Rezai (1-0) upset fourth-seeded German Sabine Lisicki 1-6, 6-3, 6-4.
Thursday's round-robin matches will pit fifth-seeded Spaniard Anabel Medina
Garrigues against Date Krumm (0-1) , sixth-seeded Spaniard Maria Jose Martinez
Sanchez versus Szavay (0-1), seventh-seeded Israeli Shahar Peer against
Rybarikova (0-1) and eighth-seeded Hungarian Melinda Czink versus Rezai.
This week's five-day competition is a 12-woman round-robin affair, featuring
four groups of three players. The field is comprised of the highest-ranked 10
players who have won at least one international tournament during the year and
who did not participate in last week's exclusive 10-player Sony Ericsson
Championships in Doha, as well as two wild cards.
The A Group features Bartoli, Peer and Rybarikova, while B Group boasts
Stosur, Martinez Sanchez and Szavay, C Group features Wickmayer, Medina
Garrigues and Date Krumm, and D Group is made up of Lisicki (0-1), Czink and
Rezai.
An undefeated winner this week would earn $200,000.
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