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  • Serena wins opening match at Wimbledon

    The Washington Times
    June 22, 2004

    United Press International

    Serena wins opening match at Wimbledon

    London, England, Jun. 22 (UPI) -- Top seed Serena Williams opened
    defense of her Wimbledon championship Tuesday with a 6-3-6-1 win over
    over Jie Zheng of China

    The 23-year-old American won easily despite committing more than
    twice as many unforced errors than her opponent.

    Rain forced officials to end play for the day with a number of matches
    incomplete, including those involving highly seeded Andy Roddick and
    Guillermo Coria.

    Unseeded Russian Sandra Kleinova eliminated her sixth-seeded
    countrywoman, Elena Dementieva, and Virginie Razzano of France knocked
    out No. 8 Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia.

    On the men's side, fifth-seeded Tim Henman of England defeated Ruben
    Ramirez Hidalgo of Spain 4-6 7-6 (8-6),6-4, 6-2.

    Other men's winners included ninth-seeded Carlos Moya of Spain,
    14th-seeded Mardy Fish of the United States, Czech Jiro Novak, Spain's
    Feliciano Lopez, Sargis Sargsian of Armenia, Jan-Michael Gambill of
    the United States and Russian Dmitry Tursunov, who beat countryman
    Marat Safin.

    Women advancing included Russians Nadia Petrova and Elena Bovina,
    Patty Schnyder of Switzerland, American Meghann Shaughnessy and Marion
    Bartoli of France, who ousted Chandra Rubin of the United States.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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