Apparently Serena turned up looking insanely fit, and obviously she absolutely crushed MJMS. As much as I despise Serena, I would be kind of relieved if someone showed up fit and committed to being a constant winning presence on tour, just because it was so tedious to listen to the complaining last year when no one did. And she didn't even threaten to kill anyone this time around! Good work, Serena.
Sydney's cray-cray in general, at least on the women's side. The seeds are either losing or getting pushed hard by much lower ranked players. In fact, only two seeds managed straight set wins in the second round yesterday, Serena and... and...
Uh oh.
Auckland
Singles - First Round
[5] P Kohlschreiber (GER) d [LL] I Cervantes-Huegun (ESP) 62 63
[7] J Monaco (ARG) d H Zeballos (ARG) 63 60
[8] A Montanes (ESP) d [Q] J Lemke (AUS) 61 75
J Isner (USA) d G Garcia-Lopez (ESP) 46 76(3) 62
A Clement (FRA) d J Chardy (FRA) 75 64
S Greul (GER) d [Q] P Lorenzi (ITA) 63 63
[Q] M Lammer (SUI) d [Q] D Evans (GBR) 16 62 64
M Gicquel (FRA) d O Rochus (BEL) 63 62
[WC] S Grosjean (FRA) d F Mayer (GER) 63 36 63
Hobart
Singles - Second Round
(1) Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP) d. (Q) Alla Kudryavtseva (RUS) 36 63 61
(4) Alona Bondarenko (UKR) d. Alizé Cornet (FRA) 64 36 62
(7) Zheng Jie (CHN) d. Peng Shuai (CHN) 62 61
(8) Gisela Dulko (ARG) d. Tamira Paszek (AUT) 61 06 76(5)
Sydney
Women's Singles - Second Round
(1) Serena Williams (USA) d. María José Martínez Sánchez (ESP) 61 62
(2) Dinara Safina (RUS) d. Agnieszka Radwanska (POL) 75 64
Dominika Cibulkova (SVK) d. (3) Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS) 75 62
(5) Elena Dementieva (RUS) d. Daniela Hantuchova (SVK) 62 46 62
(6) Victoria Azarenka (BLR) d. (Q) Kimiko Date Krumm (JPN) 61 57 75
Flavia Pennetta (ITA) d. Li Na (CHN) 62 76(4)
Aravane Rezai (FRA) d. (Q) Agnes Szavay (HUN) 63 76(5)
(Q) Vera Dushevina (RUS) d. Elena Vesnina (RUS) 63 64
Men's Singles - First Round
E Korolev (KAZ) d [5] S Querrey (USA) 62 57 64
[6] V Troicki (SRB) d F Serra (FRA) 76(5) 64
[8] B Becker (GER) d [Q] J Chela (ARG) 63 63
M Fish (USA) d [WC] C Ball (AUS) 64 76(4)
[WC] P Luczak (AUS) d J Acasuso (ARG) 76(1) 64
J Benneteau (FRA) d D Sela (ISR) 63 61
