Medina Garrigues wins first-round match

STRASBOURG, France, May 19 (UPI) -- Top-seeded Anabel Medina Garrigues won just one game in the first set before coming back to win Tuesday at the $220,000 Strasbourg International in France.

Medina Garrigues has won the event the past two years and three of the last four but took just nine points on serve and 15 overall in dropping the first set.

But she won 57 percent of the points in the second and third sets en route to a 1-6, 6-3, 6-3 triumph over Yanina Wickmayer in the clay-court tournament.

While the No. 1 seed won Tuesday, players seeded 5-8 were ousted, including a 6-3, 6-0 rout of fifth-seeded Tamarine Tanasugarn by Viktoriya Kutuzova.

Sixth-seeded Elena Vesnina fell 6-4, 6-2 to Julie Coin and No. 7-seeded Anna-Lena Groenefeld dropped a 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 match to Monica Niculescu while eighth-seeded Nathalie Dechy was beaten, 6-0, 6-7 (5-7), 6-3, by Alla Kudryavtseva.

Other advancing out of the first round Tuesday were France's Pauline Parmentier, Stephanie Foretz, Stephanie Cohen-Aloro, Lucie Hradecka, Maret Ani and Yuliya Beygelzimer.