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Day One Completed at the Rexall Centre

August 15, 2005 - No. 16 seed Tatiana Golovin earned a hard fought 6-4, 6-4 win over former top 20 Karolina Sprem to enter the second round at the Rogers Cup presented by American Express on Monday evening. The 22-year-old French withstood four aces from her opponent and broke serve three times to win in 1 hour, 28 minutes of play. Golovin will now play Gisela Dulko, who downed Polish Marta Domachowska 6-4, 6-1.

Other advancing seed were No. 17 Ai Sugiyama, who posted a 6-2, 3-6, 6-2 victory over Jelena Kostanic. Shinobu Asagoe also advanced by defeating Wild Card Alexsandra Wozniak 6-2, 6-2.

In the last match of the day, Canadian Marie-Eve Pelletier had very little chance against Venezuela's Maria Vento-Kabchi in her 6-0, 6-1 loss.

In other matches, American Laura Granville stopped Roberta Vinci 6-2, 6-1 posting her third consecutive victory here (two in the qualies) while France's Marion Bartoli was leading Maria Kirilenko 6-4, 3-0 when the Russian retired.

The stars of the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour will debut at the world class Rexall Centre in Toronto as part of the Rogers Cup, presented by American Express, August 13–21st. Purchase your tickets online or call 1-877-2-TENNIS ext. 4333.

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