Serena Williams gave herself plenty of recovery time for the third round of the French Open by racing through today's postponed clash with Germany's Julia Görges.
Williams's second-round meeting with Görges fell victim to the weather yesterday, but today's outing in glorious sunshine proved little more than a practice match, the 28-year-old American spending just 55 minutes on Suzanne Lenglen Court as she triumphed 6-1, 6-1.
Williams, who because of the delay will miss out on a day's rest before she plays either the 29th-seeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova or Jill Craybas tomorrow, could not have wished for a more straightforward first set. Unlike during her opening win over Stefanie Vögele, she was almost never troubled, breaking Görges to love in game four before securing a double-break at the third attempt two games later.
Facing Williams for the first time, world No77 Görges's serve disintegrated at the start of the second set, the 21-year-old double-faulting four times to gift the American a double break. She ended a nine-game losing streak by saving break point in game five but she was just delaying the inevitable, dropping serve again to Williams, who has only once failed to reach the last 32 of a grand slam.
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