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Swedish Open: Serena Williams advances to Round 2
Williams broke Sesil Karatancheva's serve five times, twice in the first set and three times in the second, to advance at the clay-court tournament on Sweden's west coast.
- Associated Press
- Updated: July 16, 2013 08:46 PM IST
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Bastad, Sweden:
Top-seeded Serena Williams advanced to the second round of the Swedish Open by beating Sesil Karatancheva of Kazakhstan 6-1, 6-2 on Tuesday.
Williams broke Karatancheva's serve five times, twice in the first set and three times in the second, to advance at the clay-court tournament on Sweden's west coast.
She will next face Anna Tatishvili of Georgia, who beat 16-year-old Belinda Bencic of Switzerland 2-6, 6-4, 6-4.
Third-seeded Klara Zakopalova of the Czech Republic, sixth-seeded Lesia Tsurenko of Ukraine, Mathilda Johansson of France, Teliana Pereira of Brazil, Richel Hogenkamp of the Netherlands and Andrea Gamiz of Venezuela also advanced.
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Tennis Leander Paes Sweden Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi Andy Roddick Caroline Wozniacki Anna Tatishvili Maria Sharapova Marion Bartoli Rohan Bopanna Lukas Dlouhy
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