Moscow, Russia (SportsNetwork.com) - Russian favorite Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova was an easy first-round winner Tuesday at the Kremlin Cup tennis event.
The sixth-seeded Moscow resident eased past Croat Ana Konjuh 6-3, 6-4 at Olympic Stadium.
An upset came when Serbian wild card Aleksandra Krunic took out eighth-seeded Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia 6-4, 6-2.
Meanwhile, last week's runner-up in Linz, Italian Camila Giorgi, whipped Ukrainian qualifier Lesia Tsurenko 6-0, 6-3.
Additional wins came for Russian qualifier Vitalia Diatchenko, Czech qualifier Katerina Siniakova, Ukrainian qualifier Kateryna Kozlova, and Croat Ajla Tomljanovic.
On Wednesday, second-seeded Russian Ekaterina Makarova, third-seeded Italian Flavia Pennetta, fourth-seeded Czech Lucie Safarova, and fifth-seeded Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova will all take to the courts for second-round matches.
This week's top seed is Australian Open runner-up and 2011 Moscow titlist Dominika Cibulkova, who will open up here against Diatchenko on Thursday.
The 2014 Moscow champ will claim $120,000.
