Kerber rolls to win at Indian Wells

INDIAN WELLS, Calif.

Wimbledon champion Angelique Kerber dropped just two games in winning her second-round match at the BNP Paribas Open.

Kerber beat Yulia Putintseva 6-0, 6-2 on Saturday, breaking serve to open the match on her way to winning the first 10 games in a row.

Kerber, seeded eighth, converted 93 percent of her first serves and moved on to a third-round match against qualifier Natalia Vikhlyantseva.

Other seeded winners were: No. 9 Aryna Sabalenka, No. 11 Anastasija Sevastova, No. 21 Anett Kontaveit and No. 24 Lesia Tsurenko.

No. 30 Laslo Djere won on the men’s side.

The world’s top-ranked players — Novak Djokovic and Naomi Osaka — had night matches at Indian Wells Tennis Garden.

Staff/wire report