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The Top 2 seeds won their openers at the BNP Paribas Katowice Open on Wednesday, with Petra Kvitova and Roberta Vinci both moving on in straight sets at the indoor clay court stop.

Playing her first match in more than six months after battling a right heel injury, Kaia Kanepi took just 54 minutes to blaze through her opening match at the BNP Paribas Katowice Open.

Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci cruised, and Maria Elena Camerin upset five-time Palermo champ Anabel Medina Garrigues on Tuesday.

Sania Mirza has now won six of her last seven matches on Tour and is into the quarterfinals in Guangzhou.

Francesca, Kim, Venus and Sam all won their second round matches on Wednesday.

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, the highest-ranked teenager in the world, kept cruising in Portoroz.

Kim Clijsters waited four years to return to Wimbledon. She won her first match in 65 minutes.

Venus, Kim and Justine made winning Wimbledon starts but the French Open champion lost.

At 39 years and 7 months, Kimiko Date Krumm is the oldest ever to beat one of the Top 10.

Victoria Azarenka overcame a second set blip to win her Internazionali BNL d'Italia opener on Sunday.