Lucie Safarova advances

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MOSCOW -- Eighth-seeded Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic advanced to the second round of the Kremlin Cup on Monday by beating Russian wild card Margarita Gasparyan 6-3, 4-6, 6-2.

Safarova won five consecutive games in the first set, then broke twice in the third before serving out the match at love. In the second round, Safarova will face fellow Czech Klara Zakopalova, who beat Alexandra Cadantu of Romania 6-3, 6-3.

Urszula Radwanska of Poland beat 2009 champion Francesca Schiavone of Italy 6-3, 6-1. Radwanska will next play former top-ranked player Caroline Wozniacki, who entered the event on a wild card.

Earlier, Sofia Arvidsson of Sweden beat Bojana Jovanovski of Serbia 6-2, 6-4.

Samantha Stosur, the 2011 U.S. Open Champion, is the top-seeded player in the women's draw, while Marion Bartoli of France is No. 2.

Alexandr Dolgopolov of Ukraine leads the men's field. Andreas Seppi is seeded second.

In the men's first round, sixth-seeded Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan rallied to beat German veteran Bjorn Phau 5-7, 7-5, 6-1. He will next face Lukas Rosol of the Czech Republic, who defeated Daniel Gimeno-Traver of Spain 7-6 (9), 7-6 (2).

Eighth-seeded Tatsumo Ito of Japan beat Roberto Bautista-Agut of Spain 6-3, 1-6, 6-2.

Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press

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