Serena, Sharapova win second-rounders at Wimbledon

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06/24/2010 - Wimbledon, England (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Reigning champion Serena Williams and former champ Maria Sharapova were straight-set second-round victors Thursday, on a day when Queen Elizabeth II visited Wimbledon for the first time in 33 years.

The world No. 1 Serena blew past former top-10 Russian Anna Chakvetadze 6-0, 6-1 on Court 2 at the All England Club. The fierce American dispatched Chakvetadze in a mere 49 minutes by ripping nine aces and striking 21 more winners (27-6) in the dismantling.

Chakvetadze avoided being double-bageled by holding serve while trailing 0-5 in the second set. Williams' has posted only one double-bagel at a major, and that came in the third round against Austrian Barbara Schett at the 2003 French Open.

The 28-year-old Williams has now won 42 straight second-round matches at Grand Slam events.

Williams beat her older sister Venus in last year's final to capture her third career Wimbledon championship. She owns 12 Grand Slam singles titles overall and also currently holds down the Australian Open title.

Williams, dressed in all white, showed off her curtsy for the Queen on Thursday.

Although in past decades the All England Club maintained a tradition of a bow or curtsy to royalty, the practice was actually dropped seven years ago. Still, many indulged the Queen on Thursday.

The 84-year-old monarch braved very hot weather in order to meet tennis legends such as Billie Jean King and Martina Navratilova, before greeting the fortnight's top players, including Venus. She then watched some tennis from the Royal Box.

The nine-time Wimbledon winner Navratilova said: "The Queen was lovely."

Up next for the powerful Serena will be Slovak Dominika Cibulkova, who defeated Japan's Ayumi Morita 6-7 (4-7), 7-6 (7-2), 7-5.

The 2004 titlist Sharapova handled Romanian Ioana Raluca Olaru 6-1, 6-4 on Court 1.

Sharapova is still on the mend following an elbow injury.

"We're professional athletes. We don't wake up in the morning and say, 'Everything feels perfect,"' Sharapova said. "Maybe when we're very young."

The former world No. 1 Sharapova, seeded 16th at this particular fortnight, upset Serena in the final here six years ago.

The three-time major champion Sharapova will face Czech Barbora Zahlavova Strycova in a third-round affair here on Saturday.

Third-seeded U.S. Open runner-up Caroline Wozniacki moved on with a 6-4, 6-3 victory over Taipei's Kai-Chen Chang, while 14th-seeded former top-10 Belarusian star Victoria Azarenka doused Serb Bojana Jovanovski 6-1, 6-4 on Day 4.

Wozniacki's third-round opponent will be 29th-seeded Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, while Azarenka will encounter Czech Petra Kvitova.

In some other top-10 action, seventh-seeded Pole Agnieszka Radwanska routed Italian Alberta Brianti 6-2, 6-0, ninth-seeded Chinese Li Na dismissed Japanese Kurumi Nara 6-2, 6-4 and 10th-seeded Italian Flavia Pennetta pasted Romanian Monica Niculescu 6-1, 6-1.

Mild upsets came when Czech veteran Klara Zakopalova doused 18th-seeded Frenchwoman Aravane Rezai 5-7, 6-3, 6-3; Aussie citizen Anastasia Rodionova rubbed out struggling 19th-seeded fellow Russian native Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-4, 2-6, 6-4; Kvitova knocked out 23rd-seeded Chinese Zheng Jie 6-4, 2-6, 6-2; and Zahlavova Strycova struck down 24th-seeded Slovakian Daniela Hantuchova 1-6, 6-2, 6-4.

In other action involving seeds, the aforementioned Pavlyuchenkova beat Italian Roberta Vinci 6-2, 7-6 (7-1), No. 31 Romanian Alexandra Dulgheru drilled Italian Romina Sarina Oprandi 6-2, 6-0, and No. 32 Italian Sara Errani tattooed Spaniard Arantxa Parra Santonja 6-2, 6-2.

Estonia's Kaia Kanepi advanced with a 6-4, 7-5 decision against Romanian Edina Gallovits. Kanepi upended French Open runner-up Samantha Stosur in the round of 128.

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