体坛英语新闻：Djokovic romps into US Open second round

FLUSHING MEADOWS, New York, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) -- Defending champion Novak Djokovic allowed only two games to his Italian opponent Paolo Lorenzi Tuesday as the second seeded serb breezed into a 6-1, 6-0, 6-1 win in the first round of the U.S. Open.

Djokovic won 79 of 114 points and finished with seven aces and 32 winners compared to zero and 10 for the Italian in a match lasting only 73 minutes.

After Lorenzi won the first game of the third set, he raised his hands in mock victory and got a nice hand from the crowd.

He won the same number of games he did to start the Grand Slam season, in a 6-2, 6-0, 6-0 loss to Djokovic in the first round of the Australian Open.

American veteran Andy Roddick fired 20 aces to dispatch his compatriot debutant Rhyne Williams 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 as his 30th birthday approaches.

The serve machine close the first set with an ace at 141 mph, followd with an ace at 134 mph to close the second set and another ace at 127 mph to wrap up the victory.

"You really don't see that shot," Williams said glowingly about Roddick's serve.

Fifth seeded Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga beat Karol Beck of Slovakia 6-3, 6-1 and 7-6(2).

Sixth seed Tomas Berdych of Czech Republic dismantled David Goffin of Belgium 7-5, 6-3 and 6-3.

11th seeded Spaniard Nicolas Almagro outlasted Czech Radek Stepanek 6-4, 6-7(5), 6-3 and 6-4.

Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka, 18th seed, powered through Sergiy Stakhovsky of Ukraine 6-7(6), 7-6(2), 6-4 and 6-2.

27th seeded American Sam Querrey defeated Lu Yen-Hsun from Chinese Taipei 6-7(4), 6-4, 6-4 and 7-5.

Other players advanced into the second round include 15th seed Canadian Milos Raonic, who overcame Santiago Giraldo of Colombia 6-3, 4-6, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 and Jimmy Wang from Chinese Taipei, who stunned Croat giant Ivo Karlovic, 7-6(4), 6-7(8), 6-1, 6-4.

Germany's Philipp Petzschner, America's Dennis Novikov, Spain's Pablo Andujar also snatched spots in the next round.