Roland Garros - Round Wins In Paris - Li Claim First - Sharapova

Maria Sharapova associated with Russia in addition to China's Li Na have been first-round winners Tuesday with this French Open.

The seventh-seeded Sharapova, who requirements a French Open subject to perform a new career Grand Slam, required merely 56 a matter of minutes that will dispatch Croatia's Mirjana Lucic within a 6-3, 6-0 rout. The three-time Grand Slam champ picked up twenty four involving this twenty-eight points played out while in the next placed and also completed it out of around only 22 minutes.

Li, your sixth seed and a shock Australian Open runner-up throughout January, attended your distance in opposition to Barbora Zahlavova Strycova, however sophisticated using a 6-3, 6-7 (6-8), 6-3 triumph. She's never made it past the particular fourth circular in a number of earlier appearances during Roland Garros .

Another beginning safe bet about Day 3 inside Paris included Australia's Jarmila Gajdosova. The 24th seedling pulled out and about French experienced Virginie Razzano, 6-3, 6-1.

Tuesday's agenda also involves first-round complements with regard to Belgium's Kim Clijsters and Victoria Azarenka regarding Belarus.

The second-seeded Clijsters, which will probably confront Anastasiya Yakimova of Belarus, is actively playing during Roland Garros for the very first time that since 2006 and is a two-time French runner-up. She has won a final two Grand Slam titles, claiming the Australian Open crown with January soon after winning her subsequent straight U.S. Open championship last September.

Azarenka, the fourth seed, seemed to be your first-round loser a year ago at Roland Garros and can rectangle off next to Andrea Hlavackova with the Czech Republic. She won back-to-back tournaments earlier in 2010 in Miami and Marbella and lost within the concept match at Madrid prior this particular month.