BASTAD, Sweden — Top-seeded Serena Williams advanced to the second round of the Swedish Open by beating Sesil Karatancheva of Kazakhstan 6-1, 6-2 Tuesday. Williams broke Karatancheva's serve five times, twice in the first set and three times in the second, to advance at the clay-court tournament on Sweden's west coast. She will next face Anna Tatishvili of Georgia, who beat 16-year-old Belinda Bencic of Switzerland 2-6, 6-4, 6-4. Third-seeded Klara Zakopalova of the Czech Republic, sixth-seeded Lesia Tsurenko of Ukraine, Mathilda Johansson of France, Teliana Pereira of Brazil, Richel Hogenkamp of the Netherlands and Andrea Gamiz of Venezuela also advanced. Beck beats Peer Second-seeded Annika Beck of Germany overcame 12 double faults in a 7-5, 6-3 win over Shahar Peer of Israel in the first round of the Gastein Ladies in Austria Tuesday. Beck, who entered the top 50 for the first time this week after her fourth quarterfinal of the season at the Hungarian Grand Prix, lost her serve four times but saved eight more breakpoints. Also, Viktorija Golubic of Switzerland held serve throughout to defeat No. 5 Kiki Bertens of the Netherlands 6-2, 6-2 and set up a second-round match against Andrea Hlavackova of the Czech Republic, who beat Eleni Daniilidou of Greece 6-3, 6-1. In her first career WTA match, Austrian wildcard Lisa-Marie Moser edged Romania's Elena Bogdan 7-6 (6), 2-6, 6-4 and will next play top-seeded Mona Barthel. Hingis to play doubles at S. California Open Tennis Hall of Famer Martina Hingis plans to come out of retirement and play doubles at the Southern California Open. Hingis will play with Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia. The 32-year-old Hingis will be making her first WTA tournament appearance since September 2007. The former No. 1 player in the world was often troubled by foot injuries. She retired for the second time in 2007, when she drew a two-year suspension for testing positive for cocaine at Wimbledon. Hingis denied taking the drug but did not appeal the ruling. Hingis won 43 career WTA singles titles, including five Grand Slam singles championships and 37 career WTA doubles titles, including nine Grand Slam doubles championships. The tournament is July 27-Aug. 4. Paire in 3rd round Ninth-seeded Benoit Paire of France advanced to the third round of the German Tennis Championships Tuesday by beating Albert Montanes of Spain 6-1, 6-4. Gael Monfils beat 2010 Hamburg champion Andrey Golubev of Kazakhstan 6-3, 6-3 to make the second round of the clay-court tournament. Golubev had to qualify for this year's event. Among other first-round winners were Federico Delbonis of Argentina, Robin Haase of Netherlands, Blaz Kavcic of Slovenia, Jan-Lennard Struff of Germany and three Spaniards — Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, Albert Ramos and Marcel Granollers. — Agencies
