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Top seed Agnieszka Radwanska took a shortcut into the third round of the WTA Eastbourne grass-court event on Tuesday when Croatian opponent Mirjana Lucic-Baroni retired ill trailing 6-4, 2-1.
Radwanska, the 2008 champion, who played the Wimbledon final in 2012, needed just 47 minutes under the sun at Devonshire Park to advance.
She moves directly into a showdown with former fellow Wimbledon runner-up Eugenie Bouchard after the unseeded Canadian booked her spot 6-3, 6-1 over Romanian 15th seed Irina Begu.
"I love the grass and I'm really glad to be back here," said Radwanska, 2015 losing finalist to Switzerland's Belinda Bencic. Bouchard is also up for the challenge.
"I've had some (recent) results that I wasn't satisfied with, so coming into this week I really kicked myself in the butt," she said.
"I told myself to go after it and not have any regrets."
France's Kristina Mladenovic earned an upset by beating Swiss fourth seed Timea Bacsinszky 6-1, 7-5, as the seed made a slow start from which she could not recover.
Former tournament winner Caroline Wozniacki knocked out another seed, beating number seven Samantha Stosur, 6-2, 6-1.
Stosur has never done particularly well on grass, losing in the second round at the last two editions despite reaching semi-finals here.
Double Wimbledon winner Petra Kvitova, the number five, beat Hungarian Timea Babos 6-4, 7-6 (7/5) while Slovak 12th seed Dominika Cibulkova advanced against Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia 6-3, 6-3.
Earlier, Former Wimbledon finalist Eugenie Bouchard beat Varvara Lepchenko 6-1, 6-2.
The 46th-ranked Canadian, who lost to Petra Kvitova in the 2014 Wimbledon final, won her second grasscourt match of the season against the American.
Bouchard is playing the main draw in Eastbourne for just the second time after reaching the third round a year ago.
Ekaterina Makarova of Russia, the 2014 champion, produced one of three defeats of British women on the day, dispatching 229th-ranked Tara Moore 7-5, 6-4.
Her compatriot Elena Vesnina, who won the trophy in 2010, beat Heather Watson 6-2, 6-3 and next plays holder Belinda Bencic.
Monica Puig of Puerto Rico put out Naomi Broady 6-1, 6-1 to complete a miserable day for home players at Devonshire Park.
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