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Crease Serena 6-0, 6-0, Ivanovic was out early again 27.07.2011

Former world No 1 Serena Williams (USA) defeated Anastasia Rodionova (Australia) 6-0, 6-0 and the second round of the international tennis tournament in Stanford (USA) with a prize of 721,000 dollars.

American, which has hardly been played in the last year because of various injuries, occupies the 169th place in the world rankings at the moment. In the next phase, Williams will play world number 25 Maria Kirilenko (Russia) to remove the sixth scheme Julia Gyorges of Germany 6-2, 6-3.

Number 7 in the scheme and former No. 1 Ana Ivanovic (Serbia) fell in the first round after losing by 3-6, 5-7 Ayumi Morita from the Japanese, and Daniela Hantuchova (Slovakia) continues after the first success over Rina Fujiwara (Japan) 6 : 0, 6-2.

Leggy slovachka will face a second round against that is in excellent shape Maria Sharapova, who have been placed under â„– 2 rested in the first round.