PARIS (AP)—Swiss veteran Patty Schnyder beat seventh-seeded Virginie Razzano of France 6-3, 7-6 (3) in her season debut at the Open GDF Suez on Tuesday.

The two other seeds in first-round action had far less trouble.

Fourth-seeded Francesca Schiavone routed Russian qualifier Vesna Manasieva 6-0, 6-0, and sixth-seeded Shahar Peer beat Alize Cornet of France 6-4, 6-1.

Schnyder, a former top-10 player and winner of 11 singles titles on tour, was forced to delay her season start because of left foot tendinities, which made her withdraw from the Australian Open.

After losing twice to Razzano last year, she converted three break points in 11 chances against Razzano to edge through in a tight contest in the indoor hard-court tournament at Stade Pierre de Coubertin.

The one-time Paris semifinalist will next play Melanie Oudin of the United States, a U.S. Open quarterfinalist last year.

Schiavone, who led Italy past Ukraine in the first round of their Fed Cup defense at the weekend, didn’t lose a game to Manasieva but still took almost an hour to put her away. Next up will be 2007 runner-up Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic.

Peer broke Cornet four times to set up a second-round meeting with Croatia’s Karolina Sprem, a 7-5, 6-1 winner against Switzerland’s Timea Bacsinszky.

There were also straight-sets wins for Oudin, Safarova, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia, and Andrea Petkovic of Germany, while Tathiana Garbin of Italy struggled to get the better of Romanian qualifier Ioana Raluca Olaru 3-6, 6-2, 6-4. She next plays No. 8 Elena Vesnina of Russia.

Top-seeded Elena Dementieva of Russia, last year’s runner-up to Amelie Mauresmo, and No. 2 Flavia Pennetta of Italy have byes into the second round. Dementieva will play Pavlyuchenkova, and Pennetta faces Alisa Kleybanova of Russia after she beat Julie Coin of France 7-5, 6-4 in a night match.