Jelena Jankovic crushed Coco Vandeweghe 6-2 6-1 in her opening match at the BNP Paribas Open.
Serb concedes just three games in Indian Wells opener
Defending champion Jelena Jankovic and Belgian world number two Kim Clijsters made short shrift of their opponents as they cruised into the third round of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells.
Serbian world number six Jankovic crushed Coco Vandeweghe 6-2 6-1, as she bids to become the first woman to win at Indian Wells two years in a row since Martina Navratilova in 1991.
Australian Open champion Clijsters, a two-time former winner, needed just 51 minutes to see off Alla Kudryavtseva 6-2 6-0.
Jankovic broke the error-prone American twice in the opening set and three times in the second at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden.
The 26-year-old, who beat Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki in last year's final, sealed victory on her second match point when the American wildcard netted a backhand.
"There wasn't a lot of rhythm out there," Jankovic said. "She made a lot of mistakes ... and the points were very short. I didn't really have a chance to hit a lot of balls, because that's the style of play she has. She really goes for every shot, goes for a big serve.
"So all I had to do was get the ball in play and kind of wait for my chances. I did what I had to do, and I'm happy to get to the next round."
World number six Jankovic will next meet either 32nd-seeded German Julia Georges or Austria's Sybille Bammer.
Quickfire Clijsters
Clijsters, champion here in 2003 and 2005, needed only 52 minutes to brush aside the 23-year-old Kudryavtseva.
"Everything could be better, of course," the four-times grand slam champion said. "But for a first match, I'm at a stage now where I haven't played for a while and when I was playing, my last few tournaments were indoors."
Clijsters, who won the Australian Open in January, had not played for almost a month since losing to Czech Petra Kvitova in the Paris Open final.
"So I kind of just have to get back into playing outdoors again and in big arenas ... just get a feel for it all over again because it's been a while," added the 27-year-old Belgian, who will next face Italian Sara Errani.
Elsewhere in the second round there were wins for Vera Zvonareva, Francesca Schiavone, Yanina Wickmayer, Marion Bartoli, Sara Errani, Alize Cornet, Barbora Zahlavova Strycova and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.
In the men's event, France's Julien Benneteau defeated Spain's Feliciano Lopez 6-4 6-4 to reach the second round.
He was joined by Milos Raonic, Pablo Cuevas, Ricardo Mello, Ryan Harrison, Philipp Petzschner, Santiago Giraldo, Benjamin Becker, Florent Serra, Igor Andreev, Bernard Tomic and Lukasz Kubot.
