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Sharapova advances with lopsided win

Maria Sharapova, shown at the 2013 French Open, was 6-0, 6-1 winner in her second-round match at the WTA's Open GDF Suez tournament in Paris. UPI/David Silpa
Maria Sharapova, shown at the 2013 French Open, was 6-0, 6-1 winner in her second-round match at the WTA's Open GDF Suez tournament in Paris. UPI/David Silpa | License Photo

PARIS, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- Maria Sharapova lost only one game Wednesday in a second-round victory at the Open GDF Suez tennis tournament in Paris.

Sharapova fired off 10 aces and saved all seven break points she faced in a 6-0, 6-1 win over Daniela Hantuchova. Sharapova won 62 percent of the points on serve and 65 percent when Hantuchova served.

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Sharapova improved to 9-1 lifetime versus Hantuchova, who defeated Sharapova in 2004 in their first career meeting but has dropped the last nine meetings.

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova used a 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 upset of seventh-seeded Carla Suarez Navarro and gained a spot in the quarterfinals. Pavlyuchenkova had six breaks on the day, with three coming in the first set and two in the third.

Elina Svitolina ousted sixth-seeded Roberta Vinci 6-3, 0-6, 7-5 in a first-round match. Vinci actually won more points than Svitolina on the day but that was because of the second set in which she won 26-of-36 points. While she didn't face a break point in that set, she had her serve broken twice in each the first and third sets.

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Vinci had lost her last five singles matches in WTA events.

Other first-round results saw eighth-seeded Kirsten Flipkens get by Mona Barthel 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 and qualifier Galina Voskoboeva defeated Stefanie Voegele 5-7, 7-5, 7-6 (7-3).

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