Indian Wells, California: World number one Novak Djokovic eased into the third round of the Indian Wells ATP tournament on Saturday while fourth-seed Andy Murray made an early exit.

Djokovic, champion here in 2008 and last year, handed out a 6-3 6-2 thrashing to Kazakhstan qualifier Andrei Golubev, breaking his opponent's serve twice in each set to triumph in one hour 20 minutes.

"It was a good start," the top-seeded Serb said in a courtside interview after sealing the win with a powerful first serve that forced a wild backhand error by his 145th-ranked opponent.

"We didn't play a beautiful match and there were a lot of unforced errors but look, it's the opening match of the tournament for me and I am still getting used to the conditions and adjusting to the court.

Unspecified illness

"Hopefully the next match will be better," added the Serb, who won his fifth grand slam crown at the Australian Open in January.

Djokovic, who beat Spaniard Rafa Nadal in last year's final, will next face South African Kevin Anderson, who benefited from a walkover when Germany's Philipp Kohlschreiber withdrew due to an unspecified illness.

World number four Murray, runner-up at Indian Wells in 2009, was upset 6-4 6-2 by 92nd-ranked Spaniard Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, the second year in a row the Briton was eliminated in his opening match at Indian Wells.

"My return let me down and he hardly missed the ball," Murray said after being broken once in the opening set and twice in the second. "I hit my backhand poorly tonight, no question.

"With the level of tennis nowadays you get no easy first round matches and you play a poor match, that's what happens."

Fight back

Earlier, Czech Tomas Berdych advanced with a 6-7 6-3 6-4 win over Ukrainian Sergiy Stakhovsky while American Andy Roddick clawed his way back to beat Poland's Lukasz Kubot 4-6 7-6 6-3. Roddick, a break down and trailing 4-5 in the second set, was in danger of losing the match when he suddenly found form with his service returns to take control.

"That was all the difference," said Roddick, whose world ranking of 31st is his worst since August 2001. "I had to have hit 10 winner returns from that point from being down in the second [set].

"I started putting pressure on every service game he had and broke like four times from then from not breaking at all for the first hour and 45 (minutes) I was out there.

"It was like a line in the sand. It went from terrible to good, for whatever reason. In the first two sets I couldn't have hit a return into the ocean from the beach, much less on a tennis court." Former world number one Roddick will take on Berdych in the third round.

RESULTS

Men (second round): Novak Djokovic (SRB x1) bt Andrei Golubev (KAZ) 6-3, 6-2; John Isner (USA x11) bt Frederico Gil (POR) 7-5, 6-3; Matthew Ebden (AUS) bt Julien Benneteau (FRA x32) 2-6, 6-3, 6-2; Kevin Anderson (RSA x29) bt Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER) walkover, illness; Albert Ramos (ESP) bt Richard Gasquet (FRA x16) 3-6, 7-5, 6-1; Pablo Andujar (ESP) bt Florian Mayer (GER x18) 6-2, 6-4; Nicolas Almagro (ESP x12) bt Sam Querrey (USA) 5-7, 6-4, 6-4; Andy Roddick (USA x30) bt Lukasz Kubot (POL) 4-6, 7-6 (7/5), 6-3; Tomas Berdych (CZE x7) bt Sergiy Stakhovsky (UKR) 6-7 (2/7), 6-3, 6-4; Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI x23) bt Robby Ginepri (USA) 4-6, 6-4, 6-4; Gilles Simon (FRA x13) bt Dudi Sela (ISR) 7-5, 6-7 (6/8), 6-4; Juan Monaco (ARG x22) bt Nicolas Mahut (FRA) 6-4, 5-7, 6-3; Mardy Fish (USA x8) bt Andreas Seppi (ITA) 6-3, 3-2 retired; Ryan Harrison (USA) bt Viktor Troicki (SRB x25) 7-6 (7/5), 6-3; Santiago Giraldo (COL) bt Kei Nishikori (JPN x17) 7-5, 6-2; Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP) bt Andy Murray (GBR x4) 6-4, 6-2.

Women (second round): Chanelle Scheepers (RSA) bt Kaia Kanepi (EST x29) 6-3, 6-2; Ana Ivanovic (SRB x15) bt Johanna Larsson (SWE) 6-1, 6-2; Sofia Arvidsson (SWE) bt Monica Niculescu (ROM x26) 6-3, 6-3; Lourdes Dominguez (ESP) bt Sabine Lisicki (GER x11) 6-1, 6-4; Dominika Cibulkova (SVK x16) bt Magdalena Rybarikova (SVK) 2-1, retired, illness; Francesca Schiavone (ITA x10) bt Lesya Tsurenko (UKR) 6-2, 6-4; Samantha Stosur (AUS x6) bt Irina Falconi (USA) 6-0, 6-3; Roberta Vinci (ITA x21) bt Silvia Soler (ESP) 6-3, 6-3; Simona Halep (ROM) bt Petra Cetkovska (CZE x28) 6-2, 6-4; Caroline Wozniacki (DEN x4) bt Ekaterina Makarova (RUS) 6-2, 6-0; Nadia Petrova (RUS x30) bt Lauren Davis (USA) 6-3, 6-2; Ksenia Pervak (KAZ) bt Peng Shuai (CHN x17) 6-4, 6-0; Maria Kirilenko (RUS x20) bt Irina-Camelia Begu (ROM) 7-6 (7/4), 6-4; Lucie Safarova (CZE x23) bt Tamira Paszek (AUT) 6-3, 3-1, retired; Marion Bartoli (FRA x7) bt Varvara Lepchenko (USA) 2-6, 6-2, 7-5; Maria Sharapova (RUS x2) bt Giselo Dulko (ARG) 6-2, 6-0.