Mauresmo, Kuznetsova, Serena move on at Oz Open

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01/17/2007 - Melbourne, Australia (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Reigning champion Amelie Mauresmo, French Open runner-up Svetlana Kuznetsova and two-time Melbourne titlist Serena Williams highlighted Wednesday' second-round winners at the Australian Open.

The second-seeded former world No. 1 Mauresmo charged past helpless Russian Olga Poutchkova 6-2, 6-2 to corral her ninth straight victory at Melbourne Park. The two-time Grand Slam champion topped Belgian Justine Henin-Hardenne in last year's Aussie Open and Wimbledon finals and was the runner-up here in Melbourne in 1999.

The French Mauresmo's third-round opponent will be Czech Eva Birnerova.

A third-seeded Kuznetsova, the 2004 U.S. Open champ, blew past Aussie Monique Adamczak 6-2, 6-1. The Russian Kuznetsova has lost only five games over her first two matches at this Aussie fortnight.

Next up for Kuznetsova will be her 26th-seeded countrywoman Maria Kirilenko, who beat Ukrainian Julia Vakulenko 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 on Day 3.

An unseeded Williams, a seven-time major titlist who prevailed here in Melbourne in 2003 and 2005, topped Anne Kremer of Luxembourg 7-6 (7-4), 6-2. Williams' next hurdle will be fifth-seeded Russian Nadia Petrova, an easy 6-1, 6-2 winner over Argentine Gisela Dulko.

Seventh-seeded Russian Elena Dementieva, a two-time Grand Slam runner-up in 2004, got past German Martina Muller 7-5, 3-6, 6-0, while 10th-seeded Czech slugger Nicole Vaidisova vaulted past Venezuelan Milagros Sequera 6-2, 6-2 and 11th-seeded Serbian Jelena Jankovic moved to 11-1 this year with a 6-2, 6-2 pasting of veteran Spaniard Virginia Ruano Pascual.

In other second-round action, 16th seed Shahar Peer of Israel downed American Meilen Tu 6-3, 6-0; No. 20 seed Tatiana Golovin of France pounded Czech Zuzana Ondraskova 6-2, 6-0; and 21st-seeded Slovenian Katarina Srebotnik outlasted Czech Iveta Benesova 7-6 (7-0), 6-7 (6-8), 6-1.

There were a few upsets, as Czech Lucie Safarova defeated 14th-seeded Italian Francesca Schiavone 6-3, 6-3; Victoria Azarenka of Belarus ousted 18th- seeded Frenchwoman Marion Bartoli 6-0, 7-5; and another Belarusian, Anastasiya Yakimova, drove out 23rd-seeded Japanese Ai Sugiyama 6-2, 2-6, 10-8.

Additional second-round wins came for Italian Maria Elena Camerin and the aforementioned Birnerova, who set up the date with Mauresmo by topping German Julia Schruff 6-2, 2-6, 6-2.

Eighth seed Patty Schnyder, ninth seed Dinara Safina and No. 15 seed Daniela Hantuchova were among Wednesday's first-round victors. Schnyder, of Switzerland, topped American Madison Brengle 6-3, 6-4; Safina downed her fellow Russian Ekaterina Bychkova 7-6 (7-5), 6-1; and Hantuchova beat France's Alize Cornet 6-4, 6-1.

Other seeded first-round winners were No. 17 German Anna-Lena Groenefeld, No. 19 Chinese Na Li and No. 22 Russian Vera Zvonareva.

Several other women recorded opening-round wins, including American Ashley Harkleroad, who drubbed China's Meng Yuan 6-3, 6-0.

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