Li Na cruises into second round at Wimbledon
Chinese sixth seed has no trouble in dispatching Krajicek 6-1, 6-1, but Zheng Jie crashes out
Li Na, the Chinese sixth seed, raced into the second round at Wimbledon with a comprehensive 6-1, 6-1 defeat of Michaella Krajicek yesterday.
The 31-year-old wasted little time on the Court 12 show court as she demolished her Dutch opponent in 67 minutes.
Li, the 2011 French Open champion, faces either Olga Govortsova of Belarus or Romania's Simona Halep in the second round.
Li broke in the first game and broke again to make it 4-1. The Chinese won the first set when Krajicek misfired twice on a deuce.
Li broke early in the second set and did not look back from there, giving her opponent the runaround on the court, the Dutch right-hander scampering from one side to the other behind the baseline.
Krajicek offered some brief resistance on serve to make it 5-1 in the second set, then had break point twice in the next game on deuces.
But Li eventually won it on her third match point when Krajicek sent a return of serve long.