AMELIA ISLAND (Florida), April 9: Ninth-seeded Slovakian Daniela Hantuchova comfortably advanced to the second round of the $585,000 Bausch & Lomb Championships with a 7-5, 6-4 victory over Australia’s Evie Dominikovic Monday.

Two-time Grand Slam winner, and 1998 Amelia Island champion Mary Pierce of France also advanced with a 6-2, 6-3 victory over Germany’s Vanessa Henke.

In other first round matches, 11th-seeded South African Amanda Coetzer, who committed 25 unforced errors and only had 11 winners, was thrashed 6-2, 6-1 by Croatia’s Iva Majoli in under an hour, while 10th-seed Elena Dementieva beat America’s Lilia Osterloh 7-6 (7-1), 6-3.

Monday’s results (prefix number denotes seeding):

First round: Nathalie Dechy (France) beat Marissa Irvin (US) 7-5, 6-4; 9-Daniela Hantuchova (Slovakia) beat Evie Dominikovic (Australia) 7-5, 6-4; Iva Majoli (Croatia) beat 11-Amanda Coetzer (South Africa) 6-2, 6-1; Amy Frazier (US) beat Henrieta Nagyova (Slovakia) 1-6, 6-4, 6-2; Samantha Reeves (US) beat Anna Smashnova (Israel) 6-7 (5-7), 6-3, 6-4; Anastasia Myskina (Russia) beat Jelena Jankovic (Yugoslavia) 4-6, 6-3, 6-3; 10-Elena Dementieva (Russia) beat Lilia Osterloh (US) 7-6 (7-1), 6-3; Mary Pierce (France) beat Vanessa Henke (Germany) 6-2, 6-3; 16-Francesca Schiavone (Italy) beat Wynne Prakusya (Indonesia) 7-6 (7-5), 6-2; Anne Kremer (Luxembourg) beat Jennifer Hopkins (US) 5-7, 6-4, 6-3; Janette Husarova (Slovakia) beat Rita Grande (Italy) 6-1, 6-3; Patty Schnyder (Switzerland) beat Virginia Ruano Pascual (Spain) 6-1, 6-0; Alicia Molik (Australia) beat Ai Sugiyama (Japan) 6-2, 6-2; Rossana Neffa De Los Rios (Paraguay) beat Adriana Serra Zanetti (Italy) 7-6 (7-3), 7-6 (8-6); Tathiana Garbin (Italy) beat Marta Marrero (Spain) 6-3, 3-6, 6-3; Clarisa Fernandez (Argentina) beat Julia Vakulenko (Ukraine) 6-1, 6-0.—Reuters