U.S. Open champion Kim Clijsters easily won her first-round match in the Sydney International, beating Romania's Alexandra Dulgheru of Romania 6-1, 6-2 in 62 minutes Sunday. The third-seeded Clijsters will face Russian Nadia Petrova or a qualifier in the second round in the Australian Open tuneup event. Also, two-time Grand Slam champion Svetlana Kuznetsova beat Australian wild-card Jelena Dokic 6-2, 6-2. The third-seeded Clijsters dropped just six points on her serve. "Maybe not the fastest serves I've hit, but I was very focused on trying to place my serves well and just making a lot of serves, especially when you're playing into the sun," Clijsters said. "I didn't want to give her a lot of second serves that she could attack on, so I was happy with that." Read more: http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/tennis/news/story?id=6003962
