Tennis - Radwanska marches through in Stanford

The Pole kicked off her campaign at the Californian event - her first since losing to Sabine Lisicki in the semi-final at Wimbledon - after having received a bye directly into the second round.

Radwanska, who earlier in the week had to defend her decision to pose nude for a sports magazine following criticism in her home country, showed no signs of distraction as she dominated the contest and put herself in a winning position early on.

World number 59 Schiavone, once ranked fourth - a position Radwanska currently occupies - did manage to put a run games together in the second set, but by that time Radwanska was all but home and dry.

She will now meet American sixth seed Varvara Lepchenko, who downed Tamira Paszek of Austria 6-4 6-4.

Samantha Stosur, the second seed, crashed out of the tournament a day earlier to improve Radwanska's hopes of winning a third WTA title this season.

Stanford Classic results

Round two

1-Agnieszka Radwanska (Poland) beat Francesca Schiavone (Italy) 6-4 6-3

5-Sorana Cirstea (Romania) beat Coco Vandeweghe (U.S.) 6-3 6-3

6-Varvara Lepchenko (U.S.) beat Tamira Paszek (Austria) 6-4 6-4

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