Amelia Island, Apr 8: Amelie Mauresmo has capped a perfect day for seeded players with a 6-0, 7-5 victory over Olga Savchuk in the first round of the Bausch and Lomb Championships.

After Mauresmo breezed through the opening set on Monday night, Savchuk failed to deliver on two set points serving with a 5-4 edge in the second, then foot faulted on a break point to even the set at 5-all.

Mauresmo regained control of the match and took the next two games for a satisfying straight-set win in her first match on clay this year.

"I was pretty happy to come back from 5-4 to 5-all because going into a third set is never easy," said Mauresmo, the 2001 Bausch and Lomb champion whose recent rankings slide has her seeded 11th this year. "It was important to get the momentum back because she was really rolling."

Other seeded winners included No 9 Sybille Bammer, No 13 Virginie Razzano and No 15 Anabel Medina Garrigues.

No 1 seed Maria Sharapova and the rest of the top eight seeds received byes into the second round.