Rafael Nadal of Spain serves the ball during his second round match of men's singles against Robin Haase of Netherlands at the 2010 Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, Britain, June 24, 2010. Nadal won 3-2. [Xinhua/Zeng Yi]

On the women's side, defending champion Serena Williams took just 49 minutes to breeze into a third round meeting with Dominika Cibulkova after routing Russia's Anna Chakvetadze 6-0, 6-1.

2004 Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova cruised into the third round with a 6-1, 6-4 win over Romania's Ioana Raluca Olaru.

Sharapova was joined in the last 32 by Polish seventh seed Agnieszka Radwanska and Italian 10th seed Flavia Pennetta.

There was a surprise defeat for Zheng Jie, a former semifinalist here, as the Chinese 23rd seed went down to Petra Kvitova 6-4, 2-6, 6-2.

Former French and U.S. Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova also bowed out, beaten 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 by Australia's Anastasia Rodionova.