Ana Ivanovic primera ronda

Moreover, the Spanish Anabel Medina and Carla Suarez will meet in the first round in Hobart.

Czech Lucie Safarova beat Serbia´s Ana Ivanovic 7-6 (5), 6-2 in the first round in Sydney, Australia Open anteroom, and scoring for the ATP and WTA circuits which opened today.

On this first day, could only complete two games, the Safarova-Ivanovic, and Jelena Dokic match between Australia and Isabella Holla, with the first victory by a double 6-0, the first "cycle" of the year.

Rain interrupted the match between Slovakia´s Dominika Cibulkova and Australian Isabella Holland. Tomorrow starts the men´s tournament.

Medina-Suárez Duel in Hobart

The Hobart tennis tournament, the WTA circuit and endowed with $ 220,000 in prizes will have a Spanish duel in the first round with the Anabel Medina clash between second seed, and Carla Suarez.

At the conference today, two favorites were apeadas to the first change, the Romanian Monica Niculescu, third, and the Kazakh Ksenia Pervaz, seventh.

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