Clijsters next faces 16th seed Dinara Safina
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Kim Clijsters overcame a slow start to beat Akiko Morigami and reach the third round of the Italian Open in Rome.
The Belgian second seed dropped the first set but stepped up a gear to beat the Japanese qualifier 4-6 6-1 6-3.
Clijsters said: "I was struggling with a cold. In the second and third sets it started to go better, but I still have a lot of work to do."
In other matches, French 17th seed Nathalie Dechy was easily ousted 6-2 6-2 by Russian's Vera Zvonareva.
Japan's Ai Sugiyama, seeded 18th, also made a second-round exit, beaten 6-2 4-6 6-4 by Spaniard Anabel Medina Garrigues.
Russian fifth seed Elena Dementieva had the easiest of passages, getting an walkover against injured Chinese player Shuai Peng.
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