Reporting from New York - Serena Williams took only 53 minutes and committed only nine unforced errors in her 6-1, 6-1 second-round victory over 51st-ranked Melinda Czink of Hungary.
It was an emphatic win and it prompted Serena to do a little happy dance when it was over. That was in contrast to a second-round match earlier in the day when Venus Williams played with her left knee heavily taped.
That didn't stop third-seeded Venus from dispatching 124th-ranked Bethanie Mattek-Sands, 6-4, 6-2, and moving closer to an anticipated fourth-round encounter with 2005 Open champion Kim Clijsters.
Clijsters, who hasn't played here since '05 and who has been back on the circuit for only a month after ending a two-year retirement, upset 14th-seeded Marion Bartoli, 5-7, 6-1, 6-2.
While Williams refused to talk about her knee, Clijsters said she'd be interested to see how that knee holds up. "I think what we don't know is how her knee is going to react after a couple of matches," Clijsters said.
Williams neither complained about pain nor offered explanations on why the knee hurts, except to say, "Wear and tear does put a lot on your body. It's September now. I started, literally, in December. So I guess it's not a huge surprise that at this time of the year things start to be a little sore and start to hurt."
Source: Los Angeles Times
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