2009 Wimbledon Action Continues on Day 2
June 23, 2009 by Jeanne Dupuis
Filed under Tennis
Day 2 of the 2009 Wimbledon Tournament featured some great matches and victories. Venus Williams had a great morning. The third-seeded, two-time defending champion enjoyed a straight-set victory in the 
opening round with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Swiss Stefanie Voegele in 78 minutes. Williams (USA) will face Ukraine’s Kateryna Bondarenko (who ousted Latvia’s Anastasija Sevastova) in the second round.
Here’s how the rest of the matches went for the seeded women;
- Serbia’s Jelena Jankovic beat German Julia Goerges 6-4, 7-6 (7-0).
- Dane Caroline Wozniacki rallied for a 5-7, 6-3, 6-1 win over Japan’s Kimiko Date Krumm.
- Australian Samantha Stosur beat American Bethanie Mattek-Sands 6-4, 6-7 (6-8), 6-2.
- China’s Li Na won 7-6 (7-5), 6-0 over Kazakhstan’s Galina Voskoboeva.
Meanwhile, on the men’s court, Andy Roddick (USA) easily beat Jeremy Chardy of France 6-3, 7-6 (7-3), 4-6, 6-3 despite appearing to lose focus in the third set. Roddick came into the event as the sixth seed and has 
been the runner-up twice – he lost to Roger Federer in both 2004 and 2005.
Argentina’s Juan Martin del Potro (fifth seed) also celebrated an opening-round victory after beating France’s Arnaud Clement 6-3, 6-1, 6-2. Del Potro will go on to face Lleyton Hewitt in the second round.
Other seeded winners included Chile’s Fernando Gonzalez, who defeated Russian Teimuraz Gabashvili 7-5, 7-5, 6-3, and Russia’s Nikolay Davydenko who won 6-2, 6-3, 6-3 over Britain’s Daniel Evans.
images: TSN
