Top seed Svetlana Kuznetsova and two-time major champion Amelie Mauresmo and got off to successful starts at the WTA Pilot Pen tournament on Monday. Mauresmo stopped Japanese ace Ai Sugiyama 6-4, 6-1 in the first round and Russian Kuznetsova beat China's Zheng Jie 6-1, 6-7 (5/7), 6-4.
In the final US Open tune-up tennis event, Mauresmo moves on to face the winner of a match between American Meghann Shaughnessy and Alona Bondarenko. World number six Kuznetsova easily won the first set but lost the second in a tiebreak and then rallied from a 3-1 deficit in the third to win the match.