Defending champion Marion Bartoli of France was one of four seeds to advance in the Bank of the West Classic, beating American Ashley Harkleroad 6-1, 6-4 Tuesday.
The fourth-seeded Bartoli, ranked 14th, beat Harkleroad for the first time in three meetings, though it was their first meeting in six years.
Bartoli, who faces wildcard Ana Ivanovic in the second round, won 81 percent of her first serve points to overwhelm the American, who played her second match on the WTA Tour in two years.
In other first-round matches, sixth-seeded Shahar Peer of Israel beat Slovakia's Daniela Hantuchova, 0-6, 6-4, 6-3; No. 7 Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium downed Taiwan's Chan Yung-jan 6-3, 6-4; Belarus' Victoria Azarenka, the eighth seed, topped Japan's Ayumi Morita, 6-0, 6-2; Ukrainian qualifier Olga Savchuk knocked off American Jill Craybas, 6-3, 6-3; Christina McHale of the United States defeated Taiwan's Chang Kai-chen 3-6, 6-0, 6-2, in a match featuring a pair of qualifiers; and Russian Maria Kirilenko beat qualifier Mirjana Lucic of Croatia, 6-1, 6-4.
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