Russia's Nadia Petrova, the first favorite, easily surpassed the first round of tennis tournament in Seoul by winning the Australian Jarmila Groth, while Serbia's Ana Ivanovic, seeded seventh, also said goodbye to the Russian Vera Sushevina.

Russia's Nadia Petrova, the first favorite, easily surpassed the first round of tennis tournament in Seoul by winning the Australian Jarmila Groth, while Serbia's Ana Ivanovic, seeded seventh, took leave to another Russian Vera Sushevina. Besides Petrova, who won 6-3, 6-2, also spent the second and third favorite, Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Maria Kirilenko.

Ivanovic 6-2, 4-6 and 2-6. It was the only seeded it did in the day when all games were played on Tuesday postponed by rain, and also won the Spanish Maria Jose Martinez (4), the Kazakh Yaroslava Shvedova (6) and the Hungarian Agnes Szavay (8).
Results of the day, first round:

Nadia Petrova (RUS, 1) Jarmila Groth (AUS) 6-3 6-2

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS, 2) Anastasia Rodionova (AUS) by 7-6 (6), 6-1

Maria Kirilenko (RUS, 3) Urszula Radwanska (POL) 6-3 6-1

Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez (ESP, 4) Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE) by 7-6 (3), 6-4

Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ, 6) Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP) 6-4 7-5

Vera Dushevina (RUS) Ana Ivanovic (SRB, 7), 2-6, 6-4, 6-2

Agnes Szavay (HUN, 8) to Polona Hercog (SLO) 6-1 6-2

Kimiko Date Krumm (JPN) to Junrie Namigata (JPN), 6-2, 7-5

Dinara Safina (RUS) Simona Halep (RUM), 6-4, 6-4

Klara Zakopalova (CZE) Julia Goerges (GER), 7-5, 2-6, 7-5

Vania King (USA) Alberta Brianti (ITA) 6-4 7-5