Also on Tuesday, No. 2 Timea Bacsinszky of Switzerland eased past Germany’s Anna-Lena Groenefeld, 6-1, 6-2, but No. 3 Anabel Medina Garrigues of Spain lost to Austria’s Yvonne Meusburger, 6-4, 7-5.
Sixth-seeded Barbora Zahlavova Strycova lost to fellow Czech Sandra Zahlavova 7-5, 6-3. Zahlavova Strycova reached her first career final at the Prague Open on Sunday.
Zahlavova is the cousin of Jakub Zahlava, the husband of Zahlavova Strycova.
Zahlavova next plays Ukrainian qualifier Lesya Tsurenko, who beat Mariana Duque Marino of Colombia 6-3, 7-6 (6).
No. 4 Klara Zakopalova of the Czech Republic was beaten by Julia Goerges of Germany 6-2, 5-7, 6-1, and No. 5 Sybille Bammer of Austria squandered seven set points in the opener before losing to Anastasia Pivovarova of Russia 7-6 (10), 6-3.
No. 7 Tathiana Garbin of Italy rallied to beat 2008 champion Pauline Parmentier of France 3-6, 6-3, 6-1 while Austrian wild card Patricia Mayr routed Lenka Tvaroskova of Slovakia 6-2, 6-0.
No. 8 Anastasija Sevastova of Latvia beat Laura Pous Tio in straight sets, 6-2, 6-4.
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Top-seeded Jelena Jankovic beat Bojana Jovanovski 6-3, 6-3 on Tuesday in an all-Serbian match in the first round at the Slovenia Open.
Jankovic will face Belarus qualifier Anastasiya Yakimova, who rallied to defeat Masa Zec Peskaric of Slovenia 3-6, 6-2, 6-3.
Stefanie Voegele upset second-seeded Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic 7-5, 6-2. The Swiss next plays Tamira Paszek of Austria, who won the tournament on her only previous appearance here in 2006 but is a wild card this year.
Eighth-seeded Sofia Arvidsson was also beaten in an upset, losing 7-6 (1), 6-2 to Johanna Larsson in an all-Swedish match.
Ksenia Pervak of Russia knocked out fifth-seeded Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia 6-1, 6-3.
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia, Sara Errani of Italy and Polona Hercog of Slovenia all advanced to the second round.
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