Tennis: World number five Jelena Jankovic got her French Open campaign off to a smooth start this morning, brushing aside unheralded Frenchwoman Stephanie Foretz 6-2 6-2.
Jankovic, whose first-round match was postponed yesterday because of rain, needed just 68 minutes to advance on a cloudy morning in Paris.
The 22-year-old Jankovic has won three titles this year, two of them on clay, in Charleston and notably Rome, where she beat Svetlana Kuznetsova in the final to confirm her status as a leading contender in the French capital.
Seeded fourth, Jankovic opened up a 3-0 lead in the first set and broke her opponent again in the seventh game to serve for the set, which she wrapped up with a service winner after 33 minutes.
Wild card entrant Foretz, who is a ranked a modest 143rd in the world and has never gone beyond the second round on eight previous visits to Roland Garros, fought back from a break down to level the second set at 2-2.
Jankovic, however, broke back immediately and captured the 26-year-old Foretz's serve again in the seventh game. She then served for the match, sealing victory with a smash on the first match point to set up a second-round match against Colombia's Catalina Castano of Finland's Emma Laine.
Meanwhile, sixth-seed Nicole Vaidisova, the prodigious 18-year-old talent from the Czech Republic, defeated Emmanuelle Gigliardi of Switzerland 6-4 6-3 on Philippe Chatrier.
And on Court 1, 13th-seed Elena Dementieva of Russia was a 6-3 6-2 winner over Germany's Angelique Kerber. Dementieva was the runner-up here in 2004, when she lost to Anastasia Myskina in the first all-Russian grand-slam final.
Dementieva and Jankovic are scheduled to meet in the quarter-finals.
The trio join big names Justine Henin, Serena Williams and Venus Williams in the second round.