A day after celebrating her first match win in Paris in five years, the Thai was back on her feet again taking on the 28th seed. But she exited quickly without much of a fight.

In fact Tamarine got off to a flying start with a break up at 3-1 but then her game fell apart, losing five straight games to give the Italian the opening set.

The Thai broke her opponent in the second set only to hand back the favour in the next game. She managed to hold for the third time in the match at 2-3 but never seemed to get into her rhythm from then on.

Tamarine, who injured her arm after carrying heavy luggage, needed to call for a trainer during her opening round match against Casey Dellacqua of Australia on Tuesday.

Santangelo, who was one of the members of the Fed Cup team that tamed hosts Belgium in last year's final, extended her head-to-head record over the Thai. That includes a 7-5 6-1 win in another clay event in Charleston earlier this year.

'I'll never leave India'

nSania Mirza says she will never abandon India despite the intense pressure of being one her country's most high profile stars.

The 20-year-old pin-up has been encouraged to base herself in the United States to train and to also escape the weight of expectancy on her shoulders after her rise in the women's game.

But she said she will never leave her Hyderabad home.

"Everything I am today, I am because of India," she said.

"Of course there are lots of times when you just want your privacy. It's hard when you are one in a billion," added Mirza referring to the lack of other similarly talented women players in the sub-continent.

Mirza enjoyed a French Open breakthrough yesterday when she won her first ever match at Roland Garros.

She eased past a hapless Alberta Brianti of Italy 6-1 6-1 to set up a

second-round clash against Serbian seventh seed Ana Ivanovic and register her first win at the claycourt Grand Slam in three attempts.

It was also her first win of 2007 on clay.

Mirza wore a heavy bandage to protect her right knee which she injured in Qatar in March and which kept her off the tour for two months.

But she showed no ill effects from the problem in a dominant 52-minute win over Brianti.

The Nation,

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