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Despite having a first-serve percentage of just 62 % and three double faults, Martina Hingis slipped past French Qualifier Camille Pin in less than an hour in the second round of the Pacific Life Open at Indian Wells in California, USA, 6-1, 6-3.Hingis, who received a first round bye, having been seeded nineteenth, finished the first set in just 29 minutes. In the second set, Camille Pin won the first game by holding her serve. Martina then claimed the second game of the set. The first six games of the second set was tightly fought, and then came the seventh game, which Martina won, thereby giving her a 4-3 lead. Hingis then won the next 2 games to win the second set 6-3, and the match 6-1,6-3.

In the third round, Martina will be up against Sybille Bammer of Austria. Should Martina win over Sybille, Martina might set a much-awaited showdown between two previous Pacific Life Open champions, Martina and the tournament’s second-seed Lindsay Davenport, in the fourth round.

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