TOP SEED Serena Williams was delighted to win her opening match at Wimbledon when she beat Margarita Gasparyan 6-4, 6-1 today (June 29)
After a minor blip, the five-time champion Williams, 33, was broken in the first game of the match, showed her class and authority.
After her poor start, the American said: “I think she was just hitting a lot of winners. When the first set was over, she actually hit more winners than I did.
“Usually I’m really quick and I get to those shots. They were just so cleanly hit that I wasn’t able to get to them as fast as I wanted to.
“I would be lying if I said I want a hard match. But I think it’s good for me. At the end of the day, I think it’s definitely good for me. But no one really wants to be in any sort of difficult match.