Serena Williams beat Vitalia Diatchenko two sets to one in the first round of the French Open on Monday. Serena had just one clay-court match under her belt coming into Roland Garros this year, having pulled out of her Italian Open second-round match against her sister Venus due to a knee injury, the same injury that forced her to withdraw from the Miami Open. As soon as that opening set was over, though, Serena took it to a whole new level, jumping out to a 3-0 lead in the second set—and after Diatchenko held serve to close the gap to 3-1, Serena reeled off another nine games in a row to run away with the match, even serving it out at love.
Williams struggled in the opening set of the match, losing 6-2, before bouncing back by winning 12 of the last 13 games, to win the second and third sets 6-1 and 6-0.
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