seeded Flavia Pennetta of Italy breezed through to the second round of the Swedish Open Tuesday with a straight-sets victory over Anna Brazhnikova. Pennetta secured a 6-2, 6-0 win against the Swedish wild card. Fourth-seeded Gisela Dulko of Argentina took little more than an hour to beat another Swedish wild card, 16-year-old Ellen Allgurin, 6-1, 6-3. Sweden had no players left in the singles competition after the country's No. 1, Sofia Arvidsson, lost 6-2, 6-4 to unseeded Anna-Lena Groenefeld of Germany. Third-seeded Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic beat Germany's Kathrin Woerle 6-2, 6-0. Barbora Zahlavova Strycova of the Czech Republic hit four aces on the way to a 6-3, 6-0 win over Slovakia's Zuzana Kucova. Kleybanova advances In Hungary, top-seeded Alisa Kleybanova of Russia beat Kazakhstan's Sesil Karatantcheva 7-5, 6-4 in a tightly-contested first round match at the Budapest Grand Prix Tuesday. Kleybanova will face Switzerland's Patty Schnyder in the second round. Schnyder, last year's runner-up in Budapest, defeated qualifier Lesya Tsurenko of Ukraine 6-3, 6-3. Other seeded players to advance were Anabel Medina Garrigues of Spain, Italy's Roberta Vinci and Polona Hercog of Slovenia. Wimbledon semifinalist Tzvetana Pironkova withdrew from the tournament with an injury to her right wrist. Soeda ousts Dent Japan's Go Soeda beat Taylor Dent of the United States in the opening round of the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships Monday. Soeda, Japan's top-ranked player, won 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 for his second career ATP victory. The other came in Beijing in 2008. The eighth-seeded Dent, still trying to regain his game after three back surgeries in 2008, was steady with his serve until being broken in the final game of the match. Also in the first round, American Ryan Harrison rolled past Slovakia's Karol Beck, 6-1, 6-2. Dustin Brown, Jamaica's top-ranked player, squandered six match points in the second set and one in the third before defeating Germany's Bjorn Phau 7-6 (3), 6-7 (7), 6-4. No. 4-seeded Olivier Rochus of Belgium and Canada's Frank Dancevic also advanced.
