ITALY 2 FRANCE 0, GIORGI AND ERRANI WINS.

GENOA, ITALY
Camila Giorgi overcame French No. 1 Alize Cornet to give the home side a 2-0 lead after the first day's play in Italy's Fed Cup by BNP Paribas tie with France. 
Sara Errani had earlier defeated Caroline Garcia in straight sets to end the Frenchwoman’s undefeated record in the competition. 

Cornet, ranked 12 places higher than the Giorgi, had edged two of their three meetings in 2015, but the Italian had won their only clay court encounter, in Strasbourg. And Giorgi started the stronger, winning the only break in a tight first set and closing it out in 46 minutes. 
The Italian then accelerated away from Cornet, capitalising fully on the two break point opportunities that came her way in the second set. Despite some good play from the Frenchwoman to force Giorgi to serve it out, she was unable to stop the young Italian from recording a 64 62 win in one hour and 18 minutes, and put Italy firmly in charge of the tie. Errani had got the home side off to the perfect start in the day's opening rubber as she got the better of Caroline Garcia in two tight sets. The 21-year-old Frenchwoman had won both of her previous two singles and two doubles matches, not to mention both of her two career meetings with Errani - on clay in Madrid and on the grass of Wimbledon last year – but there was to be no repeat on Saturday. 
In a first set that witnessed eight breaks of serve, the two battled to a tiebreak that was dominated by the Italian. Errani continued to pressure her opponent and achieved the decisive break to win the match, 76(2) 75 in just over 2 hours and give the hosts the opening point of the tie.