STRASBOURG, France(AP) Defending champion Anabel Medina Garrigues of Spain rallied to beat Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium 1-6, 6-3, 6-3 Tuesday in the first round at the Strasbourg International.
The top-seeded Garrigues, who also won at Strasbourg in 2005 and '07, will next face Kristina Barrois of Germany at the clay event.
Pauline Parmentier of France beat Varvara Lepchenko of the United States 7-6 (5), 7-6 (2), and Anastasiya Yakimova of Belarus topped Maret Ani of Estonia 6-3, 7-5.