Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, who won three junior Grand Slams before turning pro and now world number 42, defeated Jelena Jankovic 6-4 6-4 while Czech qualifier Petra Cetkovska defeated Elena Dementieva 7-6 2-6 6-1.

Jelena admitted her whole game needed an overhaul.

"I'm struggling in this moment to find my game overall and find the confidence on the court," she told reporters.

"I'm not at my level. That's the case. I'm trying to find that game and trying to come back into the form. But I'm struggling at the moment."

"I don't feel some of my shots that were my weapons before (are now)," she added.

"I wish I had a magic stick and could just fix my game and just start playing awesome tennis again. I would like it to be that way, but sometimes it's not."

Jankovic said there was not a single part of her game that did not need work.


"Overall I think the whole game needs some adjustments and some kind of finding the rhythm and finding the way to construct the points and just find the timing back."


Elena Dementieva started this year in sensational form, winning in Auckland and Sydney before reaching the semi-finals of the Australian Open.

Yesterday Elena hit a total of 14 double faults, eight in the first set, as she suffered her earliest defeat in the Indian Wells tournament since 2003.

"I just think my mind wasn't there," she said. "I was not really excited about playing this match and I just didn't play at all.

"I think I should not have come here because I did not have enough time to recover after playing so many matches at the beginning of the year. I needed a much longer break to get ready to play at my best."


The 24-year-old Cetkovska said the victory was the best of her career.

“Every single opportunity I had, even if I could make a mistake, I tried to be aggressive,” she said. “That was what I had in my head all the time.”


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Jelena Jankovic and Elena Dementieva out of Indian Wells