INDIAN WELLS, Calif. -- Monica Seles, the 1992 champion at Indian Wells, began her bid for another title with a 6-0, 6-2 victory Thursday over 14-year-old Russian Maria Sharapova.

The fourth-seeded Seles, 28, raced through the first set in 23 minutes of the second-round match in the Pacific Life Open.

She struggled slightly in the opening game, going to deuce on her serve four times before holding with a forehand winner, then lost only seven points the remainder of the first set.

Sharapova regrouped briefly in the second set.

But Seles regained control by breaking serve with a backhand winner to go up 4-2. She closed it out with another service break that came on a long overhead and long backhand by Sharapova.

Seles, who ran her record to 18-4 in six tournaments this year, hit 20 winners and committed 18 unforced errors.

Sharapova, who had made her tour debut a day earlier with a victory over Brie Rippner, had 13 winners and 30 errors against Seles.

Earlier in the day, sixth-seeded Meghann Shaughnessy beat Martina Muller 6-2, 6-4.

Muller, ranked 13th in the world, hadn't played on the tour since losing to Nicole Pratt in the second round of the Australian Open in mid-January. Shaughnessy also took time off after the Australian Open, returning to play in Scottsdale, Ariz., last week.

In another match at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden, Katarina Srebotnik of Slovenia began her bid for a third straight finals appearance by beating Kristina Brandi, who retired with a chronic right wrist strain after losing the first set 6-2.

Srebotnik, No. 60 this week after finishing last season at No. 98, won last week's clay-court event in Acapulco, Mexico, and lost in the final at Bogota, Colombia, the week before.

Amy Frazier outlasted qualifier Nuria Lagostera Vives of Spain 3-6, 6-3, 6-3; qualifier Virginie Razzano of France beat former French Open champion Iva Majoli 7-6 (5), 6-1, and Anna Smashnova of Israel defeated American Melissa Middleton, 6-4, 6-3.

Eva Dyrberg of Denmark advanced with a 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 victory over fellow qualifier Zsofia Gubacsi of Hungary; Greta Arn of Germany ousted Rita Kuit Kis of Hungary 6-1, 6-4; and Jelena Kostanic of Croatia turned back Marlene Weingartner of Germany 6-3, 6-1.