Davenport Leads Seeded Blowouts on Day Two at Australian Open

If you're a fan of the "increased depth" on the WTA Tour, shield your eyes from Tuesday's results at the Australian Open, where the Top 20-seeded players all advanced without dropping a set, with plenty of bagels and breadsticks.

Recording wins that included a bagel (6-0) or breadstick (6-1) on the scorecard were (1) Lindsay Davenport (d. Martinez, a former slam winner), (3) Anastasia Myskina (d. Peschke), (8) Venus (d. Daniilidou), (10) Alicia Molik (d. Anabel "Funky Cold" Medina Garrigues), (12) Patty "Handshake" Schnyder (d. Fedak 1-and-1), (23) Jelena Jankovic (d. Pratt), (25) Lisa Raymond (d. Yakimova 0-and-1), and (27) Smashnova (d. Sanchez Lorenzo 0-and-0 after dropping the first).

"I was really proud and honored to be a world champion," said Myskina after her win, missing the irony in the question of finishing No. 3 in the rankings but being named the best player of the year ("World Champion") by the International Tennis Federation (ITF), which runs the slams and Fed Cup competition. "But I think right now I don't feel any pressure because I know how many good players here and how many favorites here. Really excited that nobody really know who's gonna win."

For you "lucky" ESPN America fans, the host broadcaster will show tape today at 2 p.m. (EST) of Davenport drubbing Martinez 1-and-0.

In other seeded play, (6) Elena Dementieva recovered from an earlier bout of heat illness (d. Bondarenko), with fellow winners (13) Karolina "The Spreminator" Sprem (d. Adamczak), (14) Francesca Schiavone (d. Marrero), (18) Elena Likhovtseva (d. Mamic), (19) Nathalie Dechy (d. Gagliardi), (20) Tatiana "Hot Pants" Golovin (d. Cervanova), (26) Daniela Hantuchova (d. Morigami), and (31) Jelena Kostanic (d. the Aussie Dell'Acqua in three).

"You have no idea what, you know, I been through all these days," said Dementieva on being fingered concerning the Belgian doping allegations. "It's been too hard on me, you know. I was innocently involved in all this story that I have nothing to do with. And just ridiculous how I think press reacted and this cover on today newspaper and all this talking around me. And the WTA, the way they are trying to, you know, handle this problem by saying there is three victims like, but I see only two victim in this story -- me and Nathalie Dechy, who really have nothing, you know, have nothing to do with this. We just became a part of this by mistake, but huge mistake."

Un-seeds successfully into the second round were Americans Abigail Spears (d. countrywoman Shaughnessy in three) and Mashona "Little Sis" Washington (d. Castano), Japan's Aiko Nakamura (d. Haynes) and Shuai Peng (d. Camerin), Austrian Barbara "OK, Now I Give a" Schett (d. Welford in three), Thai Tamarine Tanasugarn (d. Strykova, bagel and two), Aussie Evie Dominikovic (d. Santangelo in three), Israel's Tzipora Obziler (d. Loit), Czechs Klara "Kouky" Koukalova (d. Tu), Nicole Vaidisova (d. Vento-Kabchi, coming from a set down) and Michaela Pastikova (d. Anne "Kosmo" Kremer), Russians Tatiana "The Pocket Baseliner" Panova (d. Ant. Serra Zanetti 6-1 in the third) and Anna Chakvetadze (d. Parra Santonja), Dutch comer Michaella "Little Sis" Krajicek (d. Foretz), the Ukraine's Tatiana Perebiynis (d. Rousseau from a set down), and Italian Tathiana Garbin (d. Weingartner).

Wednesday's matches on the women's side feature Lee-Waters vs. (4) Maria "Grunt-o-rama" Sharapova, Ferguson vs. (11) Petrova, Dinara "Little Sis" Safina vs. (2) Mauresmo, (7) Serena vs. Randriantefy, (5) Kuznetsova vs. Bartoli, (17) Fabiola "The Fabulous One" Zuluaga vs. Groenefeld, Japan's (28) Asagoe vs. China's Li, Mirza vs. Mandula, Baltacha vs. Cohen-Aloro, (15) Farina Elia vs. Domachowska, Ivanovic vs. Kirilenko, (22) Maleeva vs. Jidkova, Denisa "Hanging" Chladkova vs. (21) Amy "Joltin' Joe" Frazier, Diaz-Oliva vs. (29) Gisela "Sgt." Dulko in an all-Argentine, and Martina "Nurse, I Need a" Sucha vs. Linetskaya.