TENNIS in DEPTH.

After being taken to three sets on Court Two in the previous round, Williams looked more at home with a powerful performance on Court One. A break in the opening game was enough to take the first set, before Kirilenko surrendered her serve again in the third and fifth games of the second.

“I feel like I keep improving,” she said. ”It is just getting the rhythm that I have been missing a little bit and its getting better. ”I just want to keep serving better, as I did today, and just hold on out there, keep moving and enjoy myself.”

The American will play ninth seed Marion Bartoli in the fourth round. Bartoli won a long edurance match against Flavia Pennetta 10-8 in the third set.

Ana Ivanovic suffered a desperately disappointing 6-2, 7-6 defeat to world No.81 Petra Cetkovska in the third round. The 23-year-old was a shadow of the player she had been in the opening two rounds and struggled to return the pinpoint serve of the Czech. Ana began the match as the overwhelming favourite. In fact, she had triumphed 6-0, 6-0 in their only previous meeting, at the 2008 French Open. However, the 17th seed was simply not on form and fell a break behind early on.

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