By Chris Davies
January 17 2005

The Australian Open 2005 started today with lots of surprises with seeds falling and other battles between lower ranked opponents. Find out who advanced and who fell at the first hurdle. Women’s Singles First Round:

(5) Svetlana Kuznetsova (Rus) bt Jessica Kirkland (USA)
6-1, 6-1

(7) Serena Williams (USA) bt Camille Pin (Fra)
6-1, 6-1

Evgenia Linetskaya (Rus) bt Lubomira Kurhajcova (Svk)
6-4, 6-1

(17) Fabiola Zuluaga (Col) bt Selima Sfar (Tun)
6-3, 7-5

Martina Sucha (Svk) bt (16) Ai Sugiyama (Jpn)
7-5, 6-4

Sania Mirza (Ind) bt Cindy Watson (Aus)
3-6, 6-3, 6-0

Alina Jidkova (Rus) bt Virginia Ruano Pascual (Spa)
4-6, 6-1, 6-4

Elena Baltacha (Gbr) bt Katarina Srebotnik (Slo)
5-7, 6-4, 6-4

Marion Bartoli (Fra) bt Claudine Schaul (Lux)
6-1, 6-3

(15) Silvia Farina Elia (Ita) bt Julia Schruff (Ger)
6-3, 6-4

Anna-Lena Groenefeld (Ger) bt Severine Beltrame (Fra)
6-1, 6-3

Petra Mandula (Hun) bt (30) Flavia Pennetta (Ita)
3-6, 6-1, 6-3

(28) Shinobu Asagoe (Jpn) bt Anca Barna (Ger)
6-4, 6-2

Dally Randriantefy (Mad) bt Zuzana Ondraskova (Cze)
6-1, 6-1

Sophie Ferguson (Aus) bt Nuria Llagostera Vives (Spa)
2-6, 7-6 (8-6), 6-4

(22) Magdalena Maleeva (Bul) bt Magui Serna (Spa)
6-1, 6-1

Na Li (Chn) bt Laura Granville (USA)
6-2, 4-6, 6-2

Stephanie Cohen Aloro (Fra) bt (24) Mary Pierce (Fra)
6-2, 6-2

Marta Domachowska (Pol) bt Ting Li (Chn)
6-1, 3-6, 6-0

(9) Vera Zvonareva (Rus) bt Nannan Liu (Chn)
6-4, 6-2

(29) Gisela Dulko (Arg) bt Kristina Brandi (Pue)
6-3, 3-6, 6-3

Denisa Chladkova (Cze) bt Silvija Talaja (Cro)
7-6 (7-3), 6-3

Vera Douchevina (Rus) bt Jill Craybas (USA)
3-6, 7-6 (7-2), 6-4

(4) Maria Sharapova (Rus) bt Sisel Karatancheva (Bul)
6-3, 6-1

(21) Amy Frazier (USA) bt Marissa Irvin (USA)
7-5, 6-1

A Ivanovic (Ser) bt (32) Iveta Benesova (Cze)
3-6, 7-6 (7-4), 6-1

(11) Nadia Petrova (Rus) bt Virginie Razzano (Fra)
6-1, 6-2

Dinara Safina (Rus) bt Jie Zheng (Chn)
7-5, 3-6, 6-4

Mariana Diaz-Oliva (Arg) bt Saori Obata (Jpn)
6-3, 6-4

Lindsay Lee-Waters (USA) bt Zsofia Gubacsi (Hun)
6-3, 7-5

(2) Amelie Mauresmo (Fra) bt Samantha Stosur (Aus)
6-2, 6-3

Maria Kirilenko (Rus) bt Aniko Kapros (Hun)
5-7, 6-2, 6-4