Errani rolls; Medina Garrigues ousted in Palermo

The 2008 champion and 2009 Palermo runner-up Errani whipped Romanian Edina
Gallovits-Hall 6-1, 6-1, while Italy’s Maria Elena Camerin doused the fourth-
seeded defending champion Medina Garrigues 6-1, 6-3 on the red clay at Country
Time Club.

The 29-year-old Medina Garrigues titled here in 2001, from 2004-06, and last
year, when she topped Slovenian Polona Hercog in the final.

Fifth-seeded Spaniard Carla Suarez Navarro avoided an upset by handling New
Zealand’s Sacha Jones 6-4, 6-1.

Additional wins came for American Julia Cohen, Georgian Anna Tatishvili,
promising Brit Laura Robson, Spaniard Estrella Cabeza Candela, and Austrian
Patricia Mayr-Achleitner.