Wozniak rallies at Family Circle Cup

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Ninth-seeded Aleksandra Wozniak of Blainville, Que., rallied past Abigail Spears of the United States 6-3, 4-6, 6-0 in her opener Tuesday at the Family Circle Cup. Wozniak was the runner-up at Ponte Vedra Beach on Sunday, falling 6-1, 6-2 to second-seeded Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark in the final. Vera Zvonareva began her bid to reach a second straight Family Circle Cup final by beating Rossana de los Rios of Paraguay 6-3, 6-2. Joining third-seeded Zvonareva in the third round were No. 6 Marion Bartoli, who has never gone any further, and No. 7 Dominika Cibulkova, for the first time. In other second-round matches, Bartoli defeated Latvian qualifier Anastasija Sevastova 6-1, 6-3, and Cibulkova downed Tamira Paszek of Austria 6-4, 6-0. Sania Mirza of India ended a three-match losing streak in beating Sesil Karatantcheva of Kazakhstan 6-4, 6-4, and bought a second-round match with 2004 champion Venus Williams. Russian Alla Kudryavtseva's second win of the year, at the expense of American qualifier Angela Haynes 6-4, 5-7, 6-0, put her into a matchup with Wozniacki.