World No 1s both ease into second round
Niland had required attention early in the second set after apparently being ill during the warm-up and, although he soldiered on for a short while, he bowed to the inevitable as Djokovic proved far too strong.
David Ferrer and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga also had little trouble reaching the second round, but last year’s semi-finalist Mikhail Youzhny was beaten in straight sets by Ernests Gulbis.
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Hide AdFifth seed Ferrer won 2-6, 6-3, 6-0, 6-4, while Tsonga – fresh from wins over Roger Federer in the quarter-finals at Wimbledon and in Montreal – was impressive in a 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 win over Lu Yen-Hsun.
Women’s world No 1 Caroline Wozniacki cruised into the second round with a 6-3, 6-1 demolition of unseeded Spaniard Nuria Llagostera Vives. Wozniacki, the US Open runner-up in 2009, blasted 22 winners and never lost her serve to defeat her Spanish opponent, and will next play either Arantxa Rus of the Netherlands or Russian Elena Vesnina.