Kim Clijsters not driven by revenge

The Russian handed Clijsters her heaviest defeat at a Grand Slam event at the same stage last year, thrashing the US Open champion 6-0, 6-1, and the pair will meet again at the weekend after both recorded impressive wins yesterday.

The third-seeded Belgian was in cruise control as she eased past Spain's Carla Suarez Navarro 6-1, 6-3, while Petrova, seeded 13, lost just five games against home hope Alicia Molik.

Asked if she still reflected on that humbling by Petrova, Clijsters insisted: "Actually, no, I don't. I don't think I've ever played a match like that. So it was very easy in a way to also forget about it.

"If that would be something that would occur more often, it would be in my mind. I would feel like I had to do something about it. But, no, I don't."

Clijsters came out firing against Suarez Navarro and a wayward forehand from her opponent handed her an early break and a 3-1 lead.

That swiftly became 5-1 as Clijsters broke again before wrapping up the set in 22 minutes. The US Open champion continued to dominate and quickly established a 3-0 second-set advantage before Suarez Navarro hit back to break and then hold to at least present Clijsters with something to ponder.

But she worked it out pretty quickly, breaking again to wrap up the match in 62 minutes.

Second seed Vera Zvonareva survived a major scare to squeeze past talented teenager Bojana Jovanovski. Zvonareva looked in real danger when the 19-year-old Serb, the youngest player in the top 100, cruised through the first set, but she hit back to win 2-6, 6-3, 6-1.

"She's a very good player," said Zvonareva. "It took me some time to understand her game and I was a little bit slow in the beginning with my decisions. But I was able to pick it up and really turn it around in the second set."

Fifth seed Sam Stosur had few problems against Vera Dushevina, winning 6-3, 6-2 in what she described as her best performance for some time.

"Overall I was very pleased with the way I hit the ball. Everything seemed to be coming out of the centre and I felt like I moved well, made good decisions," she said.

"I don't think Vera played too badly, I was just really on it tonight. You don't have these days every day, so you've got to enjoy them when they come."

Next for Stosur is impressive Czech youngster Petra Kvitova.

Seventh seed Jelena Jankovic is out, however, losing 7-6 (7/3), 6-3 to China's Shuai Peng, who matched a career best by reaching the third round at a Grand Slam. Despite the defeat, Jankovic is just pleased to be injury-free after a difficult end to 2010."The good thing for me is that I'm healthy," she said.

In other news Jocelyn Rae has been called up to the Great Britain team for their upcoming Fed Cup tie against Israel.

The 19-year-old Scot, who won Commonwealth Games mixed doubles gold with Colin Fleming in Delhi last year, takes the place of the injured Laura Robson, joining Elena Baltacha, Anne Keothavong and Heather Watson in the line-up.

"This is a great opportunity for Jocelyn. We're looking forward to welcoming her into the team," team captain Nigel Sears said.

The Europe/Africa Zone Group I match will take place in Eilat over the weekend of 5-6 February.