Breezy conditions were blamed for a rash of upsets Saturday at the NASDAQ-100 Open in Miami, with seven seeds making early exits in (2)
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), all in straight sets.
Clijsters hadn't played in more than a month and it showed.
"I'm a player who likes to play a lot of matches," Clijsters said. "That's something I'll have to build up again. The past few months, that has been a disadvantage. That's what I'm missing right now."
Seeds safely into the third round were (4)
Maria Sharapova (d. Li), (6)
Elena Dementieva (d. Tatishvili), (10)
Anastasia Myskina (d. Bychkova), (16) Anna-Lena Groenefeld (d. Asagoe in three), (20)
Maria Kirilenko (d. King), (22)
Tatiana Golovin (d. Dominguez Lino, bagel in the second), and (27) Klara Koukalova (d. Garbin in three).
Marquee matches Sunday in Miami are (12)
Svetlana Kuznetsova vs. (24)
Martina Hingis, (6) Elena Dementieva vs. Michaella Krajicek, (1)
Amelie Mauresmo vs. (30)
Marion Bartoli in an all-French encounter, and (5)
Nadia Petrova vs. American Jamea "Action" Jackson.
