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| Saturday, March 9 Hingis, Dokic advance at Indian Wells Associated Press |
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INDIAN WELLS, Calif. -- Second-seeded Martina Hingis, showing no signs of a wrist injury, beat Croatia's Silvija Talaja 6-0, 6-1 Saturday in the third round of the Pacific Life Open.
Fourth-seeded Monica Seles also advanced, beating Martina Sucha of Slovakia 6-0, 6-3. Fifth-seeded Jelena Dokic of Yugoslavia edged Elena Bovina of Russia 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, and sixth-seeded Meghann Shaughnessy defeated Nicole Pratt of Australia 6-4, 6-1.
Hingis, the 1998 tournament winner, was unsure if she would play after experiencing pain in her right wrist during a tournament last week in Scottsdale, Ariz. But an acupuncture treatment left her without pain.
Her wrist was "almost perfect," Hingis said. So was her game. She committed just 11 unforced errors and won 55 of 79 points in a match that lasted just 41 minutes.
Dokic, recovering from a pulled right thigh muscle that sidelined her last month, said she is about 95 percent, but doesn't have "that much confidence with my leg right now."
In other matches in the $2.1 tournament, No. 9 Arantxa Sanchez Vicario of Spain beat Katarina Srebotnik of Slovenia 6-4, 4-6, 6-1; No. 10 Amanda Coetzer of South Africa turned back Virginie Razzano of France 6-4, 6-4; and qualifier Eva Dyrberg of Denmark beat 11th-seeded Magdalena Maleeva of Bulgaria 6-2, 6-3. |
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