Top seeds roll at Swedish Open

BASTAD, Sweden, July 8 (UPI) -- Top seeds Carolina Wozniacki and Dominika Cibulkova each had straight-set victories Wednesday in the second round of the $220,000 Swedish Open.

Wozniacki, ranked No. 9 in the world and seeded first this week, defeated Petra Kvitova 6-4, 6-2. Wozniacki got 73 percent of her first serves in and was broken just twice in the match on a clay court.

Cibulkova, seeded second, was more dominant, taking out Nuria Llagostera Vives 6-1, 6-1 in 65 minutes. Cibulkova took advantage of Llagostera Vives's second serve, winning 22 of the 29 points in that situation.

No. 3-seeded Flavia Pennetta stopped Masa Zec Peskiric 6-1, 6-2 but fifth-seeded Sorana Cirstea dropped a third-set tiebreaker and lost to Gisela Dulko 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (7-5) and No. 6-seeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova fell 6-2, 6-3 to Maria Kirilenko.

Other matches Wednesday saw No. 7-seeded Carla Suarez Navarro topping Ellen Allgurin 6-1, 6-4, Alla Kudryavtseva upseting eighth-seeded Iveta Benesova 6-2, 6-4 and Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez beating Angelique Kerber 6-3, 6-2.