Flavia Pennetta
Vina del Mar, Chile (Sports Network) - Top-seeded Italian Flavia Pennetta was an easy opening-round winner Tuesday at the inaugural $200,000 Cachantun Cup.
Pennetta pasted Hungarian Greta Arn 6-2, 6-2 at this clay-court event.
Three other seeds reached the round of 16, as No. 5 Martina Muller of Germany beat Chilean wild card Karina Andrea Koch Benvenuto, 6-4, 6-1; No. 6 Italian Sara Errani overcame French qualifier Olivia Sanchez 1-6, 6-2, 6-1; and No. 7 Estonian Kaia Kanepi handled Russian Evgeniya Rodina 6-3, 6-4.
Other first-round wins came for Paraguay’s Rossana De Los Rios, Italian Maria Elena Camerin, Spanish qualifier Nuria Llagostera Vives and Croat Jelena Kostanic Tosic, who outlasted American Bethanie Mattek 4-6, 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (7-3).
The 2008 Vina del Mar champion will take home $30,500.
Source: Pennetta advances in Chile