Tough starts for (1) Venus in the 2nd rd. vs. the Bastad runner-up Barthel, (4) Cornet vs. Wickmayer, (5) Giorgi vs. Cibulkova, and (2) Svitolina vs. Rybarikova...Veterans Daniela Hantuchova and Francesca Schiavone also floating around...Wildcards went to Turkey's Cagla Buyukakcay and Ipek Soylu, and the No. 4 seed Cornet...Pulling from the event were Belinda Bencic, Alexandra Dulgheru, Kristina Mladenovic, Monica Niculescu and Flavia Pennetta...Top-seeded Caroline Wozniacki beat No. 2 Roberta Vinci in last year's final...Pavlyuchenkova (2010) is the lone returning former champ in the field.
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