Williams makes smooth progress

Originally published on: 26/02/10 12:51

The third seed, who won Olympic gold at the same venue last year, completed a comfortable 6-2 7-6 (7/1) victory in one hour and 40 minutes, serving six aces.

In the day’s other main matches, 10th seed Flavia Pennetta, from Italy, beat Chinese wild card Han Xinyun 7-6 (7/2) 6-2.

However, 15th seed Samantha Stosur is out after the Australian was beaten 6-4 4-6 6-3 by Frenchwoman Alize Cornet.

Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova is through after she beat Sybille Bammer of Austria 7-5 6-1.

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By Tim Farthing

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