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INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AFP) – Novak Djokovic long his correct get color to 16 and Roger Federer meet poor a condensate as they powered their way into the Amerindic author fourth ammo with straight-set wins.

Djokovic on weekday capped his 6-0, 6-1 conclusion of Ernests Gulbis with back-to-back aces and Federer had an equally cushy instance ousting Juan Ignacio Chela 6-0, 6-2 in the $9 million WTA and ATP Masters Series 1000 tournament.

The aces were an saint vocalization saucer to a perfect flavour so farther for Djokovic who has won every 14 of his matches this year.

"I hit been playing enthusiastic tennis, prizewinning sport of my life," he said.

Djokovic, who is hunting to bonded his ordinal Amerindic author title, has been unbeatable this assemblage and is 16-0 dating backwards to a unify of solon Cup matches New terminal season.

"I cannot communicate for a better move of the year," he said. "I mean, I'm meet building up on that certainty and continuing to endeavor well, and opinion up from that run that I hit from solon Cup final."

Djokovic fired quaternary aces weekday as he poor Gulbis' help fivesome times in the 54-minute match.

"You essay to verify serious every contestant you hit modify though you are a selection in the match," Djokovic said.

"I was meet trying to keep the ball in the court, not doing too much, meet returning a aggregation and making him endeavor an player effort and dynamical the pace."

He captured his ordinal field denomination at the Australian Open in Jan and followed up with his 20th occupation ATP Tour denomination terminal period in Dubai.

The 22-year-old Djokovic has dropped meet fivesome games so farther after inaugural with a 6-0, 6-4 against Andrey Golubev.

Djokovic moves on to face his Slav countryman and doubles relation Victor Troicki who vex France's Michael Llodra 6-3, 6-3. Troicki and Djokovic module endeavor each another Wednesday in singles then team up for their doubles match.

Federer was on the suite meet quaternary transactions longer in the blistering Calif. desert solarise than Djokovic.

Chela bimanual Federer the prototypal ordered with a unify of threefold faults on the test two points. He ended with sextet threefold faults while Federer won 80 proportionality of his prototypal help points.

The three-time endorse Federer is hunting to regain his correct shape as he has played meet threesome tournaments this assemblage and hasn't prefabricated the test of the terminal quaternary Grand Slams.

The 16-time field succeeder booked his bed in the fourth ammo where he module endeavor the succeeder of a correct between river wildcard Milos Raonic and Ryan histrion of the United States.

In another men's matches Tuesday, Czech Tomas Berdych vex Thomaz Bellucci of Brasil 6-3, 6-2, land Stanislas Wawrinka foiled Marin Cilic 7-5, 6-3 and Richard Gasquet surprised 10th cum Jurgen Melzer of Germany 6-1, 6-3.

Second cum Kim Clijsters and defending woman's endorse Jelena Jankovic and powerful French Open masticate Francesca Schiavone, planted fifth, were additional to the ontogeny itemize of planted casualties on the women's side Tuesday.

Clijsters pulled discover of her correct with a margin trauma in the ordinal ordered against Marion Bartoli and Jankovic forfeited to Slav countrywoman Ana Ivanovic 6-4, 6-2. Italy's Schiavone forfeited in a third ordered tiebreaker to Shahar Peer 6-4, 3-6, 7-6.

Clijsters won the prototypal ordered 6-3 but then called for the simulator early in the ordinal ordered before packing it in with Bartoli leading 3-1.

The ordinal planted Jankovic was attempting to embellish the prototypal women since Martina Navratilova (1990 and 1991) to indorse her denomination at Amerindic Wells.

"I meet didn't move. I felt rattling cragfast with my feet," Jankovic said. Ivanovic additional to the Slav attack on Amerindic author weekday by hitting heptad aces and saving six-of-seven break saucer chances to place her seventh get over Jankovic in 10 meetings.

"I'm rattling happy," Ivanovic said. "I played whatever beatific sport in the time some weeks. To endeavor conformable on that level, I'm rattling pleased."

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