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London: Serena Williams breezed through the opening round of the Wimbledon as she defeated Mandy Minella of Luxemburg 6-1, 6-3 here on on Tuesday . The five-time Wimbledon champion registered her 32nd win with this one-sided victory.<\/p>\nLondon: Serena Williams breezed through the opening round of the Wimbledon as she defeated Mandy Minella of Luxemburg 6-1, 6-3 here on on Tuesday . The five-time Wimbledon champion registered her 32nd win with this one-sided victory.<\/p>\n
The American tennis star took out the frustration of the off-field controversies on her opponent who has a terrible record against the top-30 player. She winded up the match in just 57 minutes and was quoted saying,” I never think about the run, I just treat every match like a new one. It was special coming out as defending champion. I played great and I have some great memories.”<\/p>\n
Williams did not give any chance to her opponent in the first set and didn’t concede a single point on her serve. Though Minella got a slim chance of breaking her opponent’s serve for a 2-0 lead in the second set, she could not do much and finished up with just five winners compared to 25 winners of the American.\n<\/p>\n
Williams goes on to face French qualifier Caroline Garcia, who she beat in the second round in Paris.<\/p>\n
In an another match, it was a strong performance from the Japanese veteran Kimiko Date-Krumm, who smacked her German opponent Carina Witthoeft in straight sets by 6-0, 6-2 in the first round.<\/p>\n
It was the first appearance of Witthoeft at a Grand Slam but she was humiliated by her opponent who was playing in her 103rd Grand Slam match. It was the lack of experience of German because of which the match lasted for just 44 minutes which saw the sheer dominance from Kimiko, who hit 17 winners to her opponent’s two.
The Japenese will now take on the 28th seed Austrian 28th seed Tamira Paszek or Romania’s Alexandra Cadantu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
London: Serena Williams breezed through the opening round of the Wimbledon as she defeated Mandy Minella of Luxemburg 6-1, 6-3 here on on Tuesday . The five-time Wimbledon champion registered her 32nd win with this one-sided victory.<\/p>\n
The American tennis star took out the frustration of the off-field controversies on her opponent who has a terrible record against the top-30 player. She winded up the match in just 57 minutes and was quoted saying,” I never think about the run, I just treat every match like a new one. It was special coming out as defending champion. I played great and I have some great memories.”<\/p>\n
Williams did not give any chance to her opponent in the first set and didn’t concede a single point on her serve. Though Minella got a slim chance of breaking her opponent’s serve for a 2-0 lead in the second set, she could not do much and finished up with just five winners compared to 25 winners of the American.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[9730,5498,9792,9192,6293,7274,9791,2683,9793,9693],"class_list":["post-15944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest","tag-alexandra-cadantu","tag-all-england-club","tag-carina-witthoeft","tag-caroline-garcia","tag-indian-sports-news-network","tag-kimiko-date-krumm","tag-mandy-minella","tag-serena-williams","tag-tamira-paszek","tag-wimbledon-news"],"yoast_head":"\n