The Washington Times
June 22, 2004

United Press International

Serena wins opening match at Wimbledon

London, England, Jun. 22 (UPI) — Top seed Serena Williams opened
defense of her Wimbledon championship Tuesday with a 6-3-6-1 win over
over Jie Zheng of China

The 23-year-old American won easily despite committing more than
twice as many unforced errors than her opponent.

Rain forced officials to end play for the day with a number of matches
incomplete, including those involving highly seeded Andy Roddick and
Guillermo Coria.

Unseeded Russian Sandra Kleinova eliminated her sixth-seeded
countrywoman, Elena Dementieva, and Virginie Razzano of France knocked
out No. 8 Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia.

On the men’s side, fifth-seeded Tim Henman of England defeated Ruben
Ramirez Hidalgo of Spain 4-6 7-6 (8-6),6-4, 6-2.

Other men’s winners included ninth-seeded Carlos Moya of Spain,
14th-seeded Mardy Fish of the United States, Czech Jiro Novak, Spain’s
Feliciano Lopez, Sargis Sargsian of Armenia, Jan-Michael Gambill of
the United States and Russian Dmitry Tursunov, who beat countryman
Marat Safin.

Women advancing included Russians Nadia Petrova and Elena Bovina,
Patty Schnyder of Switzerland, American Meghann Shaughnessy and Marion
Bartoli of France, who ousted Chandra Rubin of the United States.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress