FOXNews.com: Azarenka, Stosur open second round in Paris with easy wins

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Azarenka, Stosur open second round in Paris with easy wins May 30th 2012, 13:09 Paris, France –  After Tuesday's stunning loss by Serena Williams to close the first round of the 2012 French Open, there were no surprises early in second-round play on Wednesday as Victoria Azarenka and Samantha Stosur were easy winners. The top-seeded Azarenka cruised past Germany's Dinah Pfizenmaier, 6-1, 6-1, while the sixth-seeded Stosur toppled American Irina Falconi, 6-1, 6-4. Azarenka, a quarterfinalist at Roland Garros last year, is trying for her second straight Grand Slam title. She won the Australian Open in January for her first career major championship. The native of Belarus needed just 55 minutes and broke serve five times on Wednesday to advance to the third round. She will next face Canada's Aleksandra Wozniak, who knocked off China's Jie Zheng, 6-2, 6-4, on Wednesday. Stosur, the 2009 French runner-up and reigning U.S. Open champ, also had little trouble on Wednesday and moved on in just 63 minutes. She saved each of four break-point opportunities against her serve and converted 3-of-4 break chances. Next up for the Australian will be Russia's Nadia Petrova, who posted a 6-3, 6-3 win Wednesday against South Africa's Chanelle Scheepers. Petrova has had her best Grand Slam results in Paris, reaching the semifinals in 2003 and 2005. Other women's winners of note Wednesday were Slovakia's Dominika Cibulkova and Italy's Sara Errani. The 15th-seeded Cibulkova thumped American Vania King, 6-0, 6-2, while Errani also knocked off an American in Melanie Oudin, 6-2, 6-3. The featured women's match on Day 4 in Paris will pit third-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland against American Venus Williams, while former French champs Ana Ivanovic and Svetlana Kuznetsova are also scheduled for action in separate matches later today.

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