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The shocking results in the men\u2019s draw did not spill over to the women on Day 2 at Wimbledon<\/a>. Seeded players, young and old held the day across the grounds at the All England Club. In all, 16 seeded players–ranging from teenager #18 Amanda Anisimova<\/a> to 37-year-old #11 Serena Williams–played on Day 2. The seeded players advanced in 14 of the 16 matches. Only #26 Garbine Muguruza and #32 Lesia Tsurenko dropped their opening matches.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Elise Mertens<\/b>, unseeded from Belgium made extremely quick work of France\u2019s Fiona Ferro.\u00a0 Mertens won 6-2 6-0 in only 48 minutes of action. Mertens dominated beginning to end, winning a staggering fifty-five of eighty total points.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Ash Barty<\/b>,\u00a0 #1 seed and recently ranked number 1 player in the world,\u00a0 topped China\u2019s Saisai Zheng 6-4 6-2 in 78 minutes. Barty converted 4 of 7 break points to move past the #43 player in the world.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Qiang Wang<\/b> of China used a very controlled game to dispatch Vera Lapko.\u00a0 The #15 Wang made only 5 unforced errors while benefiting from 35 unforced by her opponent.\u00a0 The steady Wang advanced to round 2 in just under an hour.<\/span><\/p>\n Maria Sharapova<\/b> once stood atop women\u2019s tennis, today she retired before completing her first round match against Pauline Parmentier<\/span>.\u00a0 After taking the first set 6-4, Sharapova dropped the second set in a tiebreaker.\u00a0 The lopsided third set ended in default after Sharapova fell behind 5-0.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Sam Stosur<\/b> continued to struggle at the grass-court Grand Slam.\u00a0 Stosur advanced to Wimbledon\u2019s third round only once in the last 5 years.\u00a0 Her streak extended today with a straight-set loss to <\/span>Carla Suarez Navarro 6-2, 7-5.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Garbine Muguruza<\/b>, the 2017 Wimbledon champ will not follow up her greatest triumph this year.\u00a0 The #30 seed hung in against Brazil\u2019s Beatriz Haddad Maia, but fell 6-4 6-4. Muguruza holds a ranking almost 100 slots higher than the 121st ranked Haddad, but matches are won on the court. <\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The closest women\u2019s match of the day took place outside of the spotlight.\u00a0 While megastar Serena Williams and new star Ash Barty<\/a> took care of business in straight sets, former near star and current world #79 Eugenie Bouchard<\/a> faced world #61 Tamara Zidansek on court 14. Zidansek took the first set 6-3 before Canadian Bouchard evened the match with a tight 7-5 win in the second. The final set needed to be extended to extra play with the score knotted at 6-6. The 21-year-old Zidansek outlasted Bouchard 8-6 to advance to the second round of Wimbledon for the first time.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wimbledon Day 2 Women\u2019s Recap The shocking results in the men\u2019s draw did not spill over to the women on Day 2 at Wimbledon. 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Match of the Day<\/h3>\n