[1]Daniela Hantuchova roared into the second round of the WTA Southern California Open on Tuesday with a 6-0, 6-0 thrashing of Austrian Tamira Paszek.
Slovakia’s Hantuchova, who needed just 47 minutes to dispatch Paszek, set up a second-round clash with second-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska, and also warmed up for her marquee doubles match late on Wednesday with former world number one Martina Hingis.
Swiss great Hingis will be playing her first WTA match since 2007 when she and Hantuchova play first-round doubles against Julia Goerges of Germany and Darija Jurak of Croatia.
Hingis won five Grand Slam singles titles and nine in doubles and spent a total of 209 weeks as world number one before she retired for the first time in 2003.
A comeback bid ended in a second retirement in 2007.
The only seeded player in action on Tuesday was number eight Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain, who eased into the second round with a 6-4, 6-3 victory over Japanese qualifier Sachie Ishizu.
In other matches Urszula Radwanska rallied from a break down four times in the opening set on her way to a 7-6 (7/3), 6-4 victory over New Zealand qualifier Marina Erakovic.
Kazakh qualifier Sesil Karatantcheva came back from 3-1 down in the first set and 5-3 down in the second to beat Goerges 6-3, 7-5 and advance to a second-round.
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