| INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) -- Second-seeded Martina Hingis had no problem with an injured wrist and defeated Coatian qualifier Silvija Talaja 6-0, 6-1 Saturday in the third round of the Pacific Life Open.
Fourth-seeded Monica Seles played Martina Sucha of Slovakia in a late match.
Hingis, who won the tournament in 1998, 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.
Fifth-seeded Jelena Dokic of Yugoslavia overcame a slow start to beat Elena Bovina of Russia 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden.
Dokic been recovering from a pulled right thigh muscle that sidelined her last month. She estimated that she was about 95 percent recovered but doesn't have ``that much confidence with my leg right now.''
In other matches at 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 upset 11th-seeded Magdalena Maleeva of Bulgaria 6-2, 6-3. | 