WTA

• Petrova rolls in Bell Challenge opener

  
  

  Quebec City, QC (Sports Network) - Top-seeded Russian Nadia Petrova was an easy opening-round winner Tuesday at the $175,000 Bell Challenge tennis event.

  The world No.

  11 Petrova pasted fellow Russian Maria Mokh 6-1, 6-2.

  The qualifier Mokh was making her WTA Tour debut.

  Petrova will face American qualifier Varvara Lepchenko in the round of 16.

  Two other seeded stars, Aleksandra Wozniak and Olga Govortsova, also advanced to the second round. The Canadian Wozniak, seeded fifth, downed Romania's Edina Gallovits, 6-4, 6-3, and Belarus star Govortsova, seeded seventh, outlasted American Vania King, 6-1, 2-6, 6-4.

  In other night action, American Angela Haynes ruined the homecoming for Canadian Stephanie Dubois, 6-3, 4-6, 6-2.

  Upsets came when France's Severine Bremond bounced fourth-seeded Thai Tamarine Tanasugarn 6-2, 7-6 (7-4), Kazakhstan's Galina Voskoboeva toppled eighth- seeded Swede Sofia Arvidsson 6-3, 6-2 and Hungarian Melinda Czink doused ninth-seeded German Sabine Lisicki 6-2, 5-7, 6-3 on the indoor hardcourts at PEPS at Laval University.

  Additional Day-2 wins came for American qualifiers Carly Gullickson and Lepchenko and France's Nathalie Dechy. Gullickson grounded Romanian Ioana Raluca Olaru 7-6 (8-6), 6-1, while Lepchenko leveled Paraguay's Rossana De Los Rios 6-1, 6-3 and Dechy drilled German Anna-Lena Groenefeld 6-3, 6-1.

  The 2008 Quebec champion will collect $28,000.

  10/28 23:33:12 ET