The 24-year-old raced through the match in 71 minutes to set up a second-round encounter against either Aiko Nakamura of Japan [ Images ] or another Frenchwoman, Nathalie Dechy [ Images ].

The only other seed to lose of the seven in action was number 14 Anabel Medina Garrigues of Spain, who fell to a 7-6 6-2 defeat to Dominika Cibulkova [ Images ] of Slovakia.

There were no such problems for the remainder of the seeds, with number 13 Sybille Bammer of Austria easing past Thailand's Tamarine Tanasugarn [ Images ] by a 6-3 6-1 margin and 17th ranked Martina Muller of Germany [ Images ] beating American Ashley Harkleroad 7-5 6-1.

They were joined by Zheng Jie [ Images ] of China, Katarina Srebotnik of Slovenia and Alona Bondarenko of Ukraine, who all recorded straight sets victories.

Croatia's [ Images ] Karolina Sprem enjoyed a winning start to her claycourt season with a 6-4 7-6 victory over American Meghann Shaughnessy, advancing to meeting against seventh seeded Li Na [ Images ] of China.

The world 107 battled back from a 4-0 deficit in the second set tiebreak to seal victory in just under two hours.

A majority of the higher-ranked players will be in action on Tuesday, including top seed and defending champion Nadia Petrova [ Images ] of Russia [ Images ], third seeded Slovakian Daniela Hantuchova [ Images ] and fifth seed Dinara Safina [ Images ].