2012 Wimbledon Day 2: Kvitova, Nadal, Serena, Vika Win

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On Day 2 of this year's Wimbledon Championships there was no repeat of the upset fireworks that occurred on Day 1. The last two women's champions at Wimbledon, Serena Williams (2010) and Petra Kvitova (2011), both advanced in surprisingly complicated straight-sets matches, 6-2 6-4 and 6-4 6-4, respectively.
Other players to watch who won today were Victoria Azarenka(2), Marion Bartoli, Vera Zvonareva, and Francesca Schiavone. 2-time major champion Svetlana Kuznetsova crashed out in the 1st round.

On the men's side Rafael Nadal(2) lost the first 4 games of his match against Thomaz Belluci but then managed to win a first set tiebreak and cruised to a straight-sets win. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga(5) dismissed 2-time major champion Lleyton Hewitt in straight sets while Andy Murray(4) easily beat former World #3 Nikolay Davydenko. Other notable winners were Juan Martin del Potro, Marin Cilic, Kei Nishikori and Philip Kohlschreiber. Feliciano Lopez was upset.

Federer-Nadal XXIV: Madrid Masters Semifinal

For the 24th time in their careers, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal will meet on the ATP tour, tomorrow in the semifinals of the Madrid Open. Nadal leads their head-to-head series 15-8 and 10-2 on clay. Federer beat Robin Soderling while Nadal got a walkover when Juan Martin del Potro withdrew with a hip injury.
The last time they played, at the 2011 Miami Masters, Nadal won easily in straight sets.

Novak Djokovic maintained his 2011 unbeaten streak by surviving a 3-set struggle on the red dirt with David Ferrer. He has now won 30 matches this year, surpassing Ivan Lendl's 29-0 record from 1986. He still has far to before he can match John McEnroe's 1984 streak of 42 wins in a row. Djokovic will face Brazil's Thomaz Bellucci in his first Masters-level semifinal.