Monday, 24 June 2013

Federer cruises to begin Wimbledon title defense; Sharapova wins

LONDON - Ten years after winning his first Wimbledon title, Roger Federer on grass, his greatness is defined with the same domain on Monday at the All England Club for a record eighth trophy began its campaign.


Only 68 minutes 6-3, Romanian Victor Hanescu, 6-2, 6-0 deactivating the center-court tournament as defending champion Federer in the opening, according to the Associated Press, seemed just like home.

The 32 winners and just six unforced errors and had seven aces Federer on grass in a clinic. But when he got his first serve points won 90 percent

If your service is clicked, Federer is usually invincible. The day of his first serve points won 15 and the top 25 24.

Last year, Federer, Pete Sampras and William Renshaw built in seven Wimbledon titles. 18 will bring the total number of Grand Slam titles and became the first man to eight times the principal is trying to win.

According to tradition, the reigning men's champion Federer as the play on stage in honor of the first game was played. This was the seventh time that he first came on center court.

"It's a little different," he said. "Nine years ago, when I first came, it was the world's most extraordinary thing. Still looks great. Centre to play on the court was a real pleasure."

Federer came with orange trim jacket with a white collar, and quickly went to work. He faced a break point and broke out six times.

Federer makes it easy to see things is a habit. Reflection on the forehand winner that landed him in the back, while stranded in the network, and therefore, in the first game. Break and a 5-0 lead in the third set, Federer's backhand balloon, 6 feet to 6 Hanescu was perfect.

Serena Williams is the first verbal volley tournament, after Maria Sharapova 6-3, 7-6 to France's 37th-ranked Kristina Mladenovic (5), the first-round match at Wimbledon on Monday by defeating the amendment 11-0.

In 2004, her first Grand Slam title at the All England Club, the third-seeded Sharapova, according to AP, the first series of conflicts. But all tiebreak at 5, Sharapova quickly became a shoulder backhand volley on set point Lob Mladenovic, earn court backhand winner by store.

On the opening day of the Wimbledon tournament to produce their first surprise it was not a long time.

Puerto Rico was the winner of Teen Monica Puig 38 and 18 in the first round of the grass court Grand Slam courts of Italy 6-3, fifth-seeded Sara Errani, 6-2 on Monday and removed.

19-year-old, played in his first tournament on grass and beat a pro, Puig, with his strong baseline game to Italian veteran.

Errani was runner-up at the French Open last year, and three of the last five Grand Slam tournaments reached at least the semi-finals. But the All England Club on Monday, slippery grass, only 13 winners and broke four times.

To terminate. Before hitting a forehand winner wasted on the game Puig Errani in the last five match points Puerto Rican loan dropped his racket and covered his face with his hands.

Errani heat on grass at Eastbourne last week, withdrew with a leg injury, but no signs of physical problems during the game.

It is the third time that the women in the top 5 are lost in the first round at Wimbledon since 2001. Other 2010 2000 and Francesca Schiavone was Martina Hingis.

Output Errani Wimbledon marked another humiliating defeat.

Last year, Italian Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan in the third round, losing 6-4, 6-0, was set without winning a point. Shvedova 24 straight points to the so-called "golden set" win was the first player to reach. A Grand Slam

The second-seeded Victoria Azarenka Maria Joao Koehler on his first match at Wimbledon 6-1, 6-2 victory in the alarming decline of control on his right knee injury.

Azarenka won the first set easily 1-0 in the second when he slipped and fell. He took time out on the court crying and was wounded for treatment. He played the rest of the game with a tight right knee.

Once Azarenka, play resumed and shuddered visibly limping after a few points. But Koehler made its debut at Wimbledon, their mobility should pay for the Australia Open champion Azarenka no power or consistency decreased twice.

Other women's matches, former top Serbian Ana Ivanovic, a 7-6 (1) advanced into the second round with a 6-0 victory over French qualifier Virginie Razzano.

The 12th-seeded Ivanovic, a semi-final in 2007, a full 22 minutes in his sixth game of the second set with an ace spread.

Another two weeks to the start of the championship was cloudy but dry.

The number two ranking Andy Murray plays Benjamin Becker of Germany are scheduled on Centre Court.

Murray Federer lost last year in the finals, the Swiss star, Olympic gold medal a month after the U.S. Open, won the first Grand Slam. He has to win Wimbledon since Fred Perry in 1936 to become the first British player to bid to be a trophy.

Two-time champion Rafael Nadal, ranked No. 5 this year, was Belgian Steve Darcis on Court No. 1 paired against. Nadal at the French Open close to his eighth victory.

Defending champion Serena Williams plays a woman on Tuesday.

Williams and Sharapova in the final, the next time could be seen.

"We play for each other when it seems to be for women's tennis, very good" Williams said.

Until then, fans and non-fans unexpected trade verbal competition between the two biggest stars of the sport can follow crash - more than just detecting the run-up to Wimbledon has something of a tug of war to see become friends.

The last chapter was on the eve of the tournament. The results, published online last week, try to leave some tough Profile Rolling Stone, Williams expressed his apologies to his pre-tournament press conference on Sunday, is used.

• Stage in the middle of their love lives and put Sharapova for the comments.

• Steubenville, Ohio, 16-year-old victim in the rape case in the observations.

• and, apparently, the London tabloids drooling headline writers in the laundry, making a feast in preparation for Wimbledon, his personal world, as to. The author of this history ("This time it's personal," and "I'm sorry, Mary!" Some of the lines were used).

"It certainly was not easy," the magazine number 1 position on Profile turmoil Williams said. "And I wanted to say that it looks like: everything said in this article, I apologize."

Earlier this week, the Williams case in Steubenville 16-year-old victim had a statement issued regret for the comments. On Sunday, she and her family reached `` wonderful concept, and we are constantly told in contact.''

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