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Summary Li will next face the winner of Tuesday's late second-round match.
Chinas Li Na defeated Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia 7-5, 4-6, 6-2 on Tuesday to advance to the third round of the Pan Pacific Open.The seventh-seeded Li sealed the win when she broke Pavlyuchenkova in the final game and will next face the winner of Tuesdays late second-round match between 10th-seeded Caroline Wozniacki and Daniela Hantuchova.In other matches, Croatias Petra Martic upset fourth-seeded Petra Kvitova 6-4, 6-4 while fifth-seeded Angelique Kerber of Germany downed Japans Ayumi Morita 6-3, 6-4.No. 9-seeded Marion Bartoli of France beat Germanys Julia Goerges 6-2, 7-5.Top-ranked Victoria Azarenka faces Austrias Tamira Paszek later Tuesday.
