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No. 4 seed Lucia Bronzetti of Italy swept past Ya Yi Yang of Taiwan 6-1, 6-0 in an hour flat in first-round action at the Guangzhou Open on Tuesday in China.
Bronzetti broke Yang’s serve five times in nine opportunities and won 21 of 27 first-service points while never losing her own serve. Her next opponent will be Japan’s Moyuka Uchijima, who outlasted France’s Jessika Ponch