Wimbledon - Top Seeds Lose to New Comers

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As Nadal, Roger Federer, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Maria Sharapova and Victoria Azarenka fell at the hands of new comers in the tennis seen this Wednesday, America's favorite Serena Williams balanced the scale with a great win 6-3, 6-2 victory over Caroline Garcia, 19, of France. However, it wasn't a walk in the park for Serena initially.

The NYTimes reproted:

“The first thing I do is, I’m like, ‘O.K., Serena, stay focused,’ ” she said. “This happened before. I don’t know when. I want to say it was the U.S. Open, though. A lot of players were losing. I thought, definitely want to stay focused and stay serious. So that’s what I did again yesterday.”

Garcia lifts her eyes to the sky well before she tosses up the ball to serve, and it ultimately seemed like a fine idea to seek help from above in light of Williams’s current form. Williams rolled to her 33rd straight victory and has also won 28 straight sets, which meant that after all the drama-tinged news conferences and pretournament public apologies, she could settle into a much more lighthearted vein on Thursday.

It included a debate about a would-be battle of the sexes with Murray.

Opening question: “Andy Murray has challenged you to a showdown in Las Vegas. What is your answer?”

Williams: “He’s challenged me?”

That led to discussion of Williams’s long-ago match (and defeat) against the cigarette-smoking German journeyman Karsten Braasch in Australia in 1998.

“I was really young; I’m a lot more experienced now,” Williams said, before considering Murray.

“He’s probably one of the top three people I definitely don’t want to play,” she said. “But yeah, maybe we can have a little bit of a showdown. That would be fine. I get alleys. He gets no serves. I get alleys on my serves, too. He gets no legs. Yeah.”

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Williams faces  Japanese player Kimiko Date-Krumm who is the oldest women (43) to advance to Wimbledon’s third round in singles.
Although the two have never played before, Kimiko has history with the Williams family knocking the other five-time Wimbledon champion in the Williams family (Venus) out of the singles.