CRI听力:Li Na Advances, Djokovic Struggles at Wimbledon on Day Three
Day three started out as most anticipated on the Women's Singles draw, with Chinese world number-2 Li Na making short work of Austrian Yvonne Meusberger in straight sets, 6-2, 6-2.
Li Na is now set to battle the Czech Republic's Barbora Strycova in round-3.
"I think the last time we met was on clay court, so I know she was a pretty smart player. She can use a lot of access on the court, and I think it's good for her to play on the grass court. For me, I think I should just play my game, be more aggressive as much as I can, come to the net to follow the plan."
Chinese doubles specialist Peng Shuai is also looking strong in the single's competition.
She's also into the 3rd round after dispatching Russian Maria Kiralenko 6-love, 6-3.
Also through to the next round is American Venus Williams.
The 30th ranked Venus, who has taken a back seat to her top-ranked sister Serena in recent years, says she's just hoping to keep her good play going.
"The thing that I just have to work on is being on tour consistently and the more you played the more you get used to being down or being up or serving things out so my whole goal is just to keep playing. I would be greedy, I just want to win, I want the Singles, I want the Doubles and the medals and I'm going to aim for that the best I can."
There were a couple of significant upsets on the women's side through Day Three, including 8th seeded Belarussian Victoria Azarenka losing a 3-set battle against Serbian Bojana Jovanovski.
12th seeded Italian Flavia Panetta is also out, going down in straight sets to American Lauren Davis, 6-4, 7-6.
On the men's side, top seeded Novak Djokovic is through to the 3rd round after dispatching Czech veteran Radek Stepanek in 4-sets.
Home crowd favorite and defending champion Andy Murray also looks on-form, demolishing Slovenian Blaz Rola in straight sets, 6-1, 6-1, 6-love.
However, the men's singles bracket also saw some upsets on Day Three.
Taiwan's Jimmy Wang, currently ranked 185th in the world, is through to the 3rd round at Wimbledon after dispatching 17th seeded Russian Mikhail Youzney 7-6, 6-2, 6-7, 6-3.
Wang is set to face the winner of a match between France's Jo-Wilfred Tsonga and American Sam Querry.
That match had to be suspended in the 5th set tiebreaker because of darkness.
And 7th seeded Spainyard David Ferrer (pr: DAH-veed FEH-rare) has also been bounced early, after he went down to World number 118 Andrey Kuznetsov in a 5-set marathon.
For CRI, I'm Duan Xuelian at Wimbledon.
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