TOKYO -- Anke Huber, Germany's brightest new tennis hopeful, took advantage of five service breaks to sweep past Elizabeth Smylie of Australia, 6-1, 6-4, Tuesday in the first round of the $350,000 Toray Pan Pacific Open.
The 16-year-old Huber next meets Steffi Graf, the No. 1 player in women's tennis.
The second-round matchup will be the first between the two Germans.
'I don't think about it,' Huber said of the comparisons to Graf. 'I just try to go out and play my game.'
Pam Shriver of the United States earned her best victory in a year by crushing seventh seed Natalia Zvereva of the Soviet Union, 6-2, 6-0.
In other first round matches, American qualifier Alysia May scored an upset victory over Marianne Werdel, 7-6 (7-4), 6-3.
May, ranked No. 318 in the world, surprised Werdel, No. 38, to advance to a second round matchup with Japan's Nana Miyagi, who beat Maria Lindstrom of Sweden, 6-2, 6-2.
The tournament's top five seeds, Graf, Monica Seles, Martina Navratilova, Mary Joe Fernandez and Gabriela Sabatini, were all idle on the tournament's opening day.
Japan's Mana Endo overcame American Andrea Leand, 2-6, 6-4, 6-3, American Peanut Louie-Harper beat Japan's Akiko Kijimura, 6-4, 6-2, Laura Gildemeister of Peru edged Japan's Kumiko Okamoto, 7-6 (7-4), 7-5, and Japan's Kimiko Date beat compatriot Naoko Sawamatsu, 6-4, 7-5.
