seeded Dinara Safina continued her tuneup for the Australian Open with a 6-2, 6-1 win Monday over Sorana Cirstea of Romania at the Sydney International. Playing her first WTA tournament of the year after teaming with her brother, Marat Safin, to represent Russia at the Hopman Cup last week, Safina took advantage of five double faults by Cirstea to advance to the second round after the 58-minute match at Ken Rosewall Arena. In other matches Monday, Alize Cornet of France beat No. 7 Nadia Petrova of Russia 6-2, 6-4 and eighth-seeded Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark defeated Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia 6-1, 6-2. Cornet and Cibulkova also played at the Hopman Cup, and Cibulkova won the title with compatriot Dominik Hbraty when Slovakia beat Safin and Safina in the final. Top-seeded Serena Williams plays Sara Errani of Italy on Tuesday. Errani beat Casey Dellacqua of Australia 6-1, 6-2 Monday. In first-round men's play at the joint ATP-WTA event, fifth-seeded Igor Andreev of Russia beat Canada's Frank Dancevic 7-6 (2), 6-3 and seventh-seeded Tommy Robredo of Spain, a former Australian Open quarterfinalist, defeated Austrian Jurgen Melzer 6-3, 6-4. Michael Llodra of France defeated Denis Gremelmayr of Germany 6-0, 6-2 and Mario Ancic of Croatia beat Belgium's Xavier Malisse 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-3. Jarkko Nieminen of Finland beat Feliciano Lopez of Spain 6-2, 7-6 (9) and Simone Bolelli of Italy defeated countryman Potito Starace 7-6 (1), 6-4. The top four seeds - No. 1 Novak Djokovic, Frenchmen Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Gilles Simon and Argentina's David Nalbandian - were given first-round byes. Defending Australian Open champion Djokovic plays his first match Wednesday. Seeds tumble in Hobart Polish teenager Urszula Radwanska claimed her second big scalp in as many days when she knocked Canadian sixth seed Aleksandra Wozniak out of the Hobart International on Monday. The 18-year-old came from behind to win 3-6, 7-6, 7-5 against a player ranked 94 places ahead of her. Two seeds lost on Sunday and another three, including Wozniak, joined them at the exit on Monday. Russian third seed Anna Chakvetadze fell to Spain's Carla Suarez Navarro 7-6, 1-6, 7-5, while number five Agnes Szavay of Hungary went down to Briton Anne Keothavong 6-3, 7-5. China's Zheng Jie, the fourth seed, survived a lapse of concentration to beat New Zealand's Marina Erakovic 6-1, 4-6, 6-1 and avoid the exit door while Italian top seed Flavia Pennetta defeated Shahar Peer of Israel 6-2, 7
