Australian Open champions Zheng Jie and Yan Zi eased into the
second round in straight sets at the Pattaya Women's Open in
Thailand.
During the second-day competition on Tuesday, the top seeds had
an easy victory over Akgul Amanmuradova of Uzbekistan and
Anastassia Rodionova of Russia in two straight sets: 6-2, 6-2.
However, Zheng Jie failed to produce significant result in the
singles match, losing to Melinda Czink of Hungary.
Another Chinese top player Li Na also lost in the singles round
to Canadian Aleksandra Wozniak.
Olympic double champion Sun Tiantian is the only survivor in the
singles after beating Russian Atla Kudryavtseva to reach the second
round.
(CRI English?February 6, 2006)
