The aces of world tennis take the field again for the second round of Wimbledon. The number one in the men's draw Novak Djokovic takes the field shortly after noon and faces the Finn Nieminen fresh from a 4-hour marathon in the first round against Hewitt. There should be no story on paper. The Finn's only success over Djokovic dates back to the 2009 Sydney tournament. Wimbledon women's draw, Serena Williams, he finds the Hungarian Babos in his path who overtook Petra Cetkovska in the first round. Remaining in the Wimbledon women's draw, we note the easy coupling for Maria Sharapova who should easily overcome the Dutch Richel Hogenkamp and the challenge between Sara Errani and the formidable Serbian Krunic who eliminated Roberta Vinci in the first round. Among the men, in addition to Djokovic, Stan Wawrinka will also take the field against the Dominican Victor Estrella, Kei Nishikori who will face the Colombian Giraldo and Milos Raonic against the eternal Tommy Haas. The German tennis player, number 861 in the ATP ranking, returned to the Stuttgart tournament after a year's break and could be a loose cannon for Canadian Raonic.
But let's jump back to yesterday and see how it went for the blues. The favorites of the eve Seppi, Fognini and Giorgi did well as they returned home but with their heads held high Vanni, Lorenzi and Karin Knapp. Let's start with who passed the turn. Andreas Seppi he eliminated Klein for 3 sets to 0 conceding to the British only 7 games. Very good too Fabio Fognini who eliminated the American Smyczek in just over an hour and a half. He suffers but in the end he wins Camila Giorgi who after an uphill start to the set (under 1-4) flexes his muscles, recovers the break and closes the first set at the tie break. Downhill the second set won 6-3. There won't be a few regrets for Luca vanni after what was shown yesterday. The Tuscan tennis player was defeated by the English Ward after also winning the first set at the tie break. The key point of the match that brought the challenge to Ward's tracks was in the second set in which Vanni went down 0-4. In the next two sets the Tuscan was no longer able to turn the match around and after more than 2 and a half hours of play he surrendered to Ward 1-3. Unfortunate too Paolo Lorenzi who honorably loses the challenge with the Czech Jiri Vesely for 3-0. The count of the sets could be misleading because the match between Vesely and the Sienese tennis player was very hard-fought, so much so that tie breaks were necessary to decide the first two sets. In the women's field Karin Knapp she retired at the beginning of the second set against Slovakian Rybarikova after losing the first set in the tie break 8-6. Today the South Tyrolean should team up with Roberta Vinci in the doubles tournament. It remains to be seen whether Karin will be able to take the field after yesterday's retreat.
