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Australian Open: Serena gets easy passage into 2nd round
Serena Williams shook off some rust as she came through her opening match at the Australian Open with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Tamira Paszek on Tuesday.
- Associated Press
- Updated: January 17, 2012 07:44 pm IST
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Melbourne:
Serena Williams shook off some rust as she came through her opening match at the Australian Open with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Tamira Paszek on Tuesday.
Williams frequently yelped in frustration as some of her shots failed to come off in only her third official match since reaching the U.S. Open final last September.
She completed victory with a service winner after 1 hour, 19 minutes in the last match of the second day, which finished at 12.52 p.m local time.
Williams, the 13-time Grand Slam champion, is on a 15-match winning streak at Melbourne Park having won back-to-back titles in 2009 and 2010 before missing last year's tournament with injury.
Topics mentioned in this article
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Caroline Wozniacki
Serena Williams
Tamira Paszek
Australian Open 2012
Angelique Kerber
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