In Paris today, Maria Sharapova began her French Open tennis campaign strongly with a whitewash of Romanian Alexandra Cadantu. Sharapova's 48-minute win was the first 6-0 6-0 result of the tournament and took the Russian through to a meeting with Japan's Ayumi Morita.Former champion Francesca Schiavone and Wimbledon winner Petra Kvitova also progressed in straight sets on another sunny, hot day at Roland Garros.Schiavone, the winner in 2010 and runner-up to China's Li Na last year, enjoyed a 6-3 6-1 victory over Japan's Kimiko Date-Krumm. The Japanese player is the third-oldest woman to play at Roland Garros in the professional era at 41.By contrast, Kvitova found herself up against the youngestplayer in this year's draw, Australian wildcard Ashleigh Bartywho turned 16 last month. The Czech, seeded fourth, won 6-1 6-2 in 54 minutes and will now play either Pole Urszula Radwanska or Frenchwoman Pauline Parmentier. Claycourt specialist David Ferrer, a quarter-finalist twicein the French Open and the sixth seed, eased to a 6-3 6-4 6-1 victory over unheralded Slovakian Lukas Lacko. Lacko tried to fight back towards the end, saving three breakpoints to hold serve for 4-1 in the third set, but it was already too late and he surrendered serve to the Spaniard in the seventh game to go out. Serbian Janko Tipsarevic, the eighth seed defeatedAmerican Sam Querry 2-6 6-4 7-6 6-3 and reached the second round where he will face either compatriot Albert Ramos or Frenchman Benoit Paire.