Quebec City, QC (SportsNetwork.com) - Former world No. 1 Venus Williams was a second-round winner Thursday at the Coupe Banque Nationale women's tennis event.
The top-seeded seven-time major champion Williams rolled to an easy 6-1, 6-2 victory over Ukrainian Olga Savchuk in a match that took just over 48 minutes on the indoor surface at PEPS.
Meanwhile, Czech Andrea Hlavackova took out second-seeded Croat Ajla Tomljanovic 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, Croatia's Mirjana Lucic-Baroni doused eighth- seeded Hungarian Timea Babos 7-6 (7-3), 6-2, and 2012 runner-up Lucie Hradecka defeated qualifier and fellow Czech Barbora Krejcikova 3-6, 7-5, 6-2.
The 2014 Quebec champion will earn $43,000.
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