From the ArcaMax Publishing, Sports Update Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/sports/s-642476-448663
BALI, Indonesia (UPI) -- Top-seeded Marion Bartoli opened round-robin
play Wednesday at the $600,000 Tournament of Champions event in
Indonesia with a straight-set victory.
Bartoli dropped serve just once in a 6-4, 6-4 win over Magdalena
Rybarikova in Group A play. Bartoli, despite four double faults, was
basically solid through the match. She forced Rybarikova, who is
seeded 11th, into nine break-point situations and won nearly half of
the points on Rybarikova's serve.
No. 2-seeded Samantha Stosur, heading up Group B, also won but was
pushed to three sets by ninth-seeded Agnes Szavay before prevailing
6-2, 3-6, 6-1. Stosur didn't face a break point outside the second
set.
Third-seeded Yanina Wickmayer was a 7-6 (7-5), 6-3 winner over
12th-seeded Kimiko Date Krumm in Group C and Group D saw the day's
lone upset when 10th-seeded Aravane Rezai stopped fourth-seeded Sabine
Lisicki 1-6, 6-3, 6-4.
There are 12 players invited to the five-day Tournament of Champions.
If a player makes it through the competition undefeated, she will win
$200,000.