Bartoli, Safarova advance in New Haven
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Marion Bartoli and Lucie Safarova, the only ranked players to play at the $637,000 New Haven Open at Yale on Sunday, both advanced to the second round.
Bartoli, seeded fifth, downed Laura Robson, 6-3, 6-3, in one hour, 25 minutes, while the eighth-seeded Safarova was cruising 6-3, 4-1 before Varvara Lepchenko retired with a left wrist injury.
Also moving on in the final U.S. Open tune-up were Sloane Stephens and Carla Suarez Navarro. Stephens blew past Tamira Paszek, 6-3, 6-1, and Suarez Navarro broke Agnes Szavay's final serve to win, 7-6 (7-3), 6-4 on the hardcourts at the Connecticut Tennis Center.
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Danish star Caroline Wozniacki defeated Czech Petra Cetkovska in last year's finale to claim her fourth straight title at this event.
The 2012 New Haven champion will collect $107,000.