Victoria Azarenka advances to 2nd round at Wimbledon

The fourth-seeded Swiss beat Joao Sousa of Portugal 6-2 7-5 7-6 (7-3) in his opening match, played on Centre Court.

The Championships, Wimbledon commenced Monday and world No. 1 and defending champion Novak Djokovic was a first-round victor on a gorgeous day at the All England Club.

Never was Djokovic more in his element than when delivering the sumptuous one-two punch to wrap up the second set.

Instead, you want to be stretched.

Finding his footing after two sets of play, Djokovic began dictating in baseline rallies.

Kohlschreiber accepted that he had simply been beaten by a better player. A small bird turned up on court during the first game, and, although chased away by a ballboy, punctuated the match with periodic reappearances. Furthermore, getting some much needed cheer from the people you are closest to can bring you that extra confidence, which is so vital in the sport of tennis.

But he had few qualms about his decision not to play a grass tournament before today. Whatever, rather than become irritated by this cheeky monkey of a bird, Djokovic chose to view it as a good omen, as he explained later.

At just after 5:30 pm local time, Wimbledon said goodbye to a one of its modern day legends. She won the next four points, finishing – appropriately – with a service victor. Despite being a die-hard Rafa fan and it pains me to say this, but I can very easily see a Djokovic-Murray final. He gave the crushed fanatics – who had not stopped cheering throughout the entire dogfight of a match – one last thumbs up and walked off court to the locker room for the last time at Wimbledon.

Martin Klizan took Fernando Verdasco to five sets while French Open quarter-finalist Kei Nishikori was also made to sweat in his five-set victory against Italy’s Simone Bolelli.

“I didn’t know who she was”, said Bouchard, who went 19-4 in Slam matches previous year but is now 4-3 in 2015 and will fall out of the top 20 in the rankings after Wimbledon. I got a break early in the first and he broke straight back, same thing in third. I felt like in the third, as well. Maybe if I would happen to win here, then maybe I might start feeling it after that. “Serving efficiently. Just overall a great performance against a quality opponent”. “I just don’t understand why this story is repeating”.

“I keep a very good fitness trainer, Pierre Paganini. I think any person looks up to him”.

John Isner’s serve is in fine form to start Wimbledon, where his career winning percentage is back to.500.

Gasparyan came in 0-3 in tour-level matches and was making her Wimbledon main-draw debut.

Perhaps reasoning that he is sick and fed up talking about this particular achievement, Djokovic’s coach has put the cat among the pigeons by appearing to confess to communicating with his charge via looks, glances and other such signals.

“Probably wouldn’t have been smart to play here, but I couldn’t pass on Wimbledon”, said Bouchard, the only Canadian to reach a Grand Slam singles final.

“I have to say sorry to them”, Kvitova said. “I really couldn’t do anything about it”. Are you asking only me, or other players as well?

So I said “be my guest, stay around, if you want”. There are certain ways of communication which is encouragement but all within the rules.

“If I am breaking any rules or my team does, I would be fined for that, right?”

The onus is on the chair umpire, or the Grand Slam supervisor sitting beside the court, to make a judgment on whether coaching is taking place. “In my head, it was no question I was going to play, even though I was advised not to”.