Clijsters sweeps past Garbin in Brisbane

Top seed Kim Clijsters swept into the second round of the Brisbane International
with a 6-2 6-1 thrashing of Italian veteran Tathiana Garbin on Sunday.
The US Open champion was impressive as she kick-started the first women's tournament
of 2010 with victory in under an hour at Pat Rafter Arena.
Clijsters was rusty early, dropping her opening service game, but quickly found her
range to win 10 of the last 11 games.
The match wasn't without the odd embarrassing moment for the Belgian world No.18 as
she missed two regulation smashes in the second set, including an air swing on one
which left her red-faced.
Clijsters will play the winner of Sunday's other main draw match on centre court
between Australian wildcard Alicia Molik and Russian youngster Ekaterina Makarova,
ranked 60th in the world.