Williams and Federer Advance to Second Round of US Open
Williams and Federer Advance to Second Round of US Open
Venus Williams and Roger Federer had an easy first round in the US Open 2010 as they breezed past their oppositions in easy time to make it to the second round.
American player Williams brushed aside Roberta Vinci in straight sets at the Arthur Ashe stadium. Williams won 6-4, 6-1 against her 27-year old opponent from Italy. On the other hand, Federer won 6-1, 6-4, 6-2 against the 96th ranked Argentine, Brian Dabul. This was Dabul’s first match at the US Open. Federer will now meet Andreas Beck in the second round of the competition.
Williams, who has won the US Open twice, had not played in any of the hard-court tournaments since the start of the season leading up to the US Open. But she did not show any ill-effects of the knee injury that had caused her the issues.
In another match on the first day of the tournament, two-time French Open runner-up, Robin Soderling needed five sets and four hours to overcome Andreas Haider-Maurer in the first round. Soderling went up by two sets before Haider-Maurer fought back to level the score. In the final set, Haider-Maurer lost the momentum and the match, 7-5, 6-3, 6-7, 5-7, 6-4.
Soderling will face Taylor Dent in the second round who beat Alejandro Falla, 6-4, 7-5, 6-1 in another first round game. Soderling is ranked fifth in the world.
American Andy Roddick made an easy entry into the second round as well after he beat Stéphane Robert in straight sets, 6-3, 6-2, 6-2. Former world number one, Dinara Safina was beaten in the first round by Slovakia’s Daniela Hantuchova, while American teenager Melanie Oudin lost only three games to Olga Savchuk before advancing.
