06 August,2009 10:54 AM IST | | AFP
World No 1 Dinara Safina of Russia advanced to the third round of the $7,00,000 WTA Los Angeles Championships on Wednesday with a 6-2, 6-4 victory over Slovakia's Daniela Hantuchova.
Safina will next face China's Zheng Jie, who defeated Russia's Elena Vesnina 6-4, 4-6, 6-0 in another second-round match at the hardcourt event, a tuneup for the US Open which begins later this month.
Poland's Urszula Radwanska upset Slovakian seventh seed Dominika Cibulkova 6-4, 6-7 (6/8), 6-4 and in the third round will face China's Li Na, who outlasted Canada's Alexandra Wozniak 4-6, 6-4, 6-2.
Other seeded winners included Russian No 5 Nadia Petrova, who ousted Israel's Shahar Peer 6-4, 2-6, 6-3, and Polish eighth seed Agnieszka Radwanska, who eliminated Japan's Ai Sugiyama 6-2, 6-1.
Australia's Samantha Stosur advanced to a third-round meeting with Serbian eighth seed Ana Ivanovic by beating Russia's Maria Kirilenko 6-2, 6-4.
