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The women's side was the home of the upset on Thursday as reigning French Open champ fell to Sabine Lisicki , , The powerful 19 year-old German used 17 aces to key her upset victory. Elsewhere in the women's bracket Serena Williams lost the first set before finding her game and taking the last two sets to advance to third round play.

The match took place on the outskirts of the All England Club on court No. After the match Serena told the press :. The roof over Centre Court is really paying off for Wimbledon After two straight years of remarkably fantastic weather the rain is falling. It is off and on, but thanks to the roof the action goes on non-stop. Venus Williams took advantage of the roof to get her match in, and she apparently enjoyed it so much she thought she would maximize her time there.

Williams went the distance in her opening match. During the broadcast legendary announcer was telling a story about a conversation he had with an All England Club member about balls. You can watch video of his comments here. On the men's side the favorites advanced with ease.

Nadal obviously gets the edge looking forward due to his recent reign of dominance, but all three looked good enough to capture Wimbledon.

Roddick didn't have his best control on his first serve, but he was in complete control of his game and he only had six unforced errors. It has been a long road back for Serena Williams. A road she really didn't think was going to lead to the Wimbledon. For Williams it wasn't so much the , , victory over Aravane Rezai, but the fact that she was playing at all. Williams had to have surgery on her foot almost a year ago after cutting it on some glass and tearing a tendon.

She then suffered from blood clots in both lungs and a hematoma, which then required more surgery. I never cried with joy for anything. John Isner vs. Nicolas Mahut—the rematch—looked like it might offer some of the hour, three-day magic it provided last year when it began with a first-set tiebreak. But that was as close as that match got.

Isner dominated the tiebreak, then the match 4 , , 6. After two years of amazingly spectacular weather Wimbledon is back in its comfort zone. Rain began to fall as action was underway on the opening day of tournament play. Enter the roof. For just the fourth time the roof over Centre Court has been put into use, and this has allowed play to continue on a soggy Monday. Off and on rains are expected for the next two days. Highlighting play that was completed on the opening day was Rafael Nadal and Venus Williams.

Nadal fell behind a break early, but then snapped into form and went onto dominate in just under two hours, , , over American Michael Russell. Venus Williams looked fantastic on Monday. I'm talking about her tennis game—you can decide for yourself on the fashion. On the court Williams didn't show any signs of rust from her recent five month layoff stemming from abdominal pain. In other and developing news, Andy Murray shockingly fell behind by dropping his opening set to clay court specialist, Daniel Gimeno-Traver Murray seems to be on track now, though.

He captured the second set and the third The fourth set is just underway. It's been a long, hard road back to tennis action for Serena Williams. After suffering various health ailments that hit their low point with potentially fatal blood clots in the lungs she missed almost a year of tennis. She will definitely have some rust on her game as she tries to defend her Wimbledon Championship. She did manage to get in a tune-up match last weekend, but as she told the press, as reported by Foxnews.

I didn't travel with my serve to Eastbourne, so I hope it came with me. I hope he was in my luggage coming to Wimbledon, because I've missed him. On the men's side the always humble and understated Rafael Nadal spoke to the press about defending his Wimbledon title and closing in on Roger Federer 's all-time mark of 16 grand slam titles. Here is Nadal as quoted on CNN.

I am not close to the 16 of Roger. Sixteen is a lot. We can dream about a lot of things. For me it's a dream. Maybe not for you. Venus and Serena Williams have dominated Wimbledon. They have won nine out of the last 11 championships, and they will both return to try and further dominate, but they do so after lengthy layoffs. Serena will try to defend her title with only has one match under her belt since a near year-long layoff due to serious health issues.

Venus is coming back from her own health issues as she was sidelined from January to June with hip issues. If they are going to win 10 out of 12 championships they are going to do so as underdogs.

The biggest plot story on the men side is can someone crack the Federer-Nadal strangled hold on the tournament. Those two men have combined to win each Wimbledon since In a staggeringly amazing chance of probability the two men that were the talk of the Wimbledon became the talk of the Wimbledon before the draw was complete. John Isner and Nicolas Mahut were paired in the first round of Wimbledon for the second year in a row.

Chances are that they will not be forced to play for three days this year. Nor surprisingly, they are the tournaments Nos. And with those seedings the stage is set for another possible Nadal-Federer finals. If things go according to form Nadal and Murray will meet in one semifinals and Djokovic and Federer in the other. Enjoy our content? Join our newsletter to get the latest in sports news delivered straight to your inbox!

Djokovic came through to end Nadal's reign as Wimbledon champion, before overtaking the Spaniard as world number one on Monday. It was his 50th win in 51 matches and his fifth win over Nadal this year.

Djokovic had done enough before Sunday's final to guarantee himself the top ranking on Monday no matter what the result. He came into the match having beaten the Spaniard in four finals already this year, but Nadal - on a match winning streak at the All England Club - was still favoured by many to claim a third Wimbledon title as he had won all five Grand Slam meetings with Djokovic.

That record felt like ancient history as the Djokovic of overcame a slightly edgy start to take a stranglehold on the match. In a desperately tight opening set, the pace and accuracy of the Serbian's groundstrokes began to draw errors from the usually faultless Nadal and earned him the first break point of the day at A Nadal forehand into the net gave Djokovic the set and the Spaniard appeared rattled, firing a smash over the baseline in a rare moment of promise at at the start of the third.

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