Richard Gasquet advanced to the third round of the Pacific Life Open with a comfortable straight sets victory over American, Kevin Kim, 6-4, 6-3.

Monday Order of PlayGasquet/Grosean vs. Allegro/Federer is scheduled for fourth on court three, with play for the day beginning at 10.00am PST.

The California native, who was playing in front of his home crowd, gave the Frenchman a few problems early on with both players having opportunities to break serve. However after squandering a big chance to break in the game at 4-3, Gasquet made no mistake second time around and with Kim serving at 4-5 down, the number 16 seed took his first set point at 30-40 to take the first set 6-4.

Gasquet took the momentum into the second set, going a break up immediately and taking a 2-0 lead. However Kim wasn’t ready to surrender the match so early and broke Gasquet straight back to put the set back on an even keel.

The French teenager, who is making his debut this week in Indian Wells, dug deep though and at 2-1 he found himself with another opportunity to break the American. He took his chances and quickly found himself in a position to close out the match at 5-3.

Gasquet served out the match comfortably and proved he is looking strong in coming back from his elbow injury as he notched up his third win of the year. He will next face Slovakian, Hrbary. Allez Richard!