CANBERRA, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) -- Ana Ivanovic from Serbia
and Montenegro and Li Na of China both enjoyed comfortable first-round wins at
the Gold Coast WTA Open on Monday as they defeated qualifier Roberta Vinci of
Italy and Czech Sandra Zahlavova on the new year's day.
Third-seeded Ivanovic struggled to overcome the
Italian in the first set wrapping up the tiebreak 7-5 before racing through the
second set 6-1 to book a second-round berth against Venezuela's Milagros
Sequera.
China's Li Na, the sixth seed, lost just four games
as she swept past Czech Sandra Zahlavova 6-0, 6-4 while seventh seed Katarina
Srebotnik beat American Vania King 6-4, 6-3.
One seed that was scattered, however, was Germany's
number fourAnna-Lena Groenefeld who lost tussle with Italy's Tathiana Garbin
7-6, 6-7, 6-3.
