{"id":21767,"date":"2013-08-08T13:02:33","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T11:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/victory-for-li-and-bartoli-in-toronto\/"},"modified":"2013-08-08T13:02:33","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T11:02:33","slug":"victory-for-li-and-bartoli-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/victory-for-li-and-bartoli-in-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"Victory for Li and Bartoli in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Marion Bartoli returns a shot to Lauren Davis in their Rogers Cup women\u2019s tennis match in Toronto on Wednesday. Photo: Frank Gunn \/ The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

Chinese tennis star Li Na<\/a> and Wimbledon<\/a> champion Marion Bartoli<\/a> won their Toronto<\/a> openers in straight sets yesterday.<\/p>\n

Fourth-seeded Li stormed to a 6-1, 6-4 win against Russia\u2019s Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova while seventh seed Bartoli, who won her first Grand Slam<\/a> title at Wimbledon last month, took the first seven games of her match with America\u2019s Lauren Davis in a 6-0, 6-3 victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course the first match is always tough, especially here because I didn\u2019t play any tournaments for three or four weeks after Wimbledon, but I was feeling pretty good,\u201d Li said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was still a little bit nervous, which is natural, but I was fighting a lot on the court and I\u2019m happy to win today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bartoli said she was surprised how smoothly she rediscovered her game after her Wimbledon triumph.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hadn\u2019t played on hard courts for a while, and also the last two times I played in Toronto I lost first round,\u201d Bartoli said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I just wanted to enjoy myself on the court and try my hardest, and being able to win 6-0, 6-3 was obviously pretty good for me. I think I played well, and I\u2019m very pleased with the way I handled everything on the court today.\u201d \u2013 Bangkok Post<\/a><\/p>\n

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