seeded Agnieszka Radwanska advanced to the second round of the Dubai Tennis Championships Tuesday after defeating Aleksandra Wozniak of Canada 6-1, 6-7 (8), 7-5. Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka is the top-seeded player in Dubai. The top-ranked Belarusian will meet Julia Goerges of Germany in her opening match Wednesday. The field also includes defending champion Caroline Wozniacki and US Open winner Sam Stosur. Earlier Tuesday, two players joined the list of withdrawals. Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia retired with a hamstring injury while trailing Iveta Benesova 3-1, and Maria Kirilenko withdrew from a doubles match with Sabine Lisicki against Anabel Medina Garrigues and Alicja Rosolska. Third-seeded Wozniacki will open the defense of her title on Wednesday when she meets Simona Halep of Romania in the second round. Halep advanced Tuesday after defeating Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-4, 6-2. Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic also advanced Tuesday after ousting Croatia's Petra Martic 6-3, 5-7, 6-3. Safarova will meet US Open champion Samantha Stosur in the second round. Ana Ivanovic upset the seedings in a battle of former French Open champions with Francesca Schiavione. The 2008 Roland Garros champion from Serbia beat the 2010 champion from Italy 6-1, 7-5 with a first-round performance that belied her relative decline over the past three years. Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia was down 1-3 against lucky loser Polona Hercog and then again by 1-3 in the final set tie-break. Hantuchova eventually squeezed home 1-6, 7-5, 7-6 (7/4) against the rising top 40 Slovenian. Marion Bartoli from France was upset 6-4, 6-3 by China's Peng Shuai. Davydenko in 2nd round In Marseille, Nikolay Davydenko hit nine aces and did not face a single break point as he beat Andreas Beck of Germany 6-1, 7-5 Tuesday to reach the second round of the Open 13. Davydenko, a semifinalist at the ABN Amro World Tennis final in Rotterdam last week, broke Beck's serve three times in the match. The Russian next faces fourth-seeded Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina for a place in the quarterfinals. No. 5-seeded Richard Gasquet also advanced after a comfortable 6-0, 6-2 win over Go Soeda. Although the Frenchman took little more than one hour to win, he did have to save seven break points against his aggressive Japanese opponent. Gasquet next plays Russia's Igor Kunitsyn, who saved seven of the eight break points he faced in a 6-4, 6-4 win over Roberto Bautista-Agut of Spain. In other first-round matches, Frenchmen Nicolas Mahut and Albano Olivetti advanced, while David Goffin of Belgium was up 6-2, 1-0 against Adrian Mannarino when the Frenchman retired. Mahut beat Arnaud Clement 6-3, 6-4 and will play another Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, in the second round. Olivetti, did not face a break point in his 6-4, 6-3 win over Matthias Bachinger of Germany. Vinci reaches second round In Mexico, top-seeded Roberta Vinci of Italy reached the second round of the Monterrey Open Monday with a 7-5, 7-5 victory over Coco Vandeweghe of the United States. In other matches, second-seeded Sara Errani of Italy downed Canada's Stephanie Dubois 6-2, 6-2, Nina Bratchikova beat Russian compatriot Anastasia Pivovarova 6-3, 6-1, and Alexandra Cadantu of Romania defeated Jelena Dokic of Australia 3-6, 6-1, 7-5.
