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Petra Kvitova is off to a flier at Wimbledon, having lost just three games in two matches.

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She came to Wimbledon without any grass-court preparation in 2015, but two-time and defending champion Petra Kvitova has mercilessly lashed her way through the first two rounds without any resistance nonetheless.

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Kvitova defeated Japan’s Kurumi Nara on Thursday 6-2, 6-0. The Czech, who has lost just three games in en route to round three, is bidding to become the sixth woman in the Open Era to defend her Wimbledon title, and she remains the only women born in the 1990’s to have won a Grand Slam title.

Kvitova says she was worried about not having any matches at the onset of the tournament, but now that she’s rummaged her way through two rounds (her first victory, a win in 36 minutes, was the fourth-shortest match in Wimbledon history) she’s feeling confident.

“I was quite worried that I didn’t have enough match competition on the grass as I would like to have,” she said. “Doesn’t matter, as I see.”

Kvitova needed 58 minutes to get past Nara in their first career meeting, and she struck 23 winners against only one for Japan’s top-ranked woman.

She broke five times on 12 opportunities and did not face a break point on her serve.

Another former Wimbledon finalist had a much more difficult time on Day 4, but Sabine Lisicki drew from her wealth of Wimbledon experience to weave her way past a game Christina McHale, 2-6, 7-5, 6-1.

“Experience always helps you,” said Lisicki. “I didn’t play a good first set and I knew it. I knew I could play much better than that and I was just focusing on the things that I can do rather than the balls that I missed.

“At that point I started to find my range and hit the ball better and better, and in the third set it was going very well again.”

Lisicki hit 13 winners against 7 unforced errors in the decider and saved all three break points she faced to set up a third-round encounter with Timea Bacsinszky.

Around the Grounds:

Madison Keys reached the third round for the third consecutive year at Wimbledon with a 6-4, 7-6(3) win over Elizaveta Kulichkova. Keys will not face a seeded player in the next two rounds, which gives her a great shot to reach her second major quarterfinal of 2015.

5th-seeded Caroline Wozniacki was leading 6-1, 5-1 against Denisa Allertova of the Czech Republic, but ended up having to play a second-set tiebreaker to get through, 6-1, 7-6(6). 10th-seeded Angelique Kerber, who won Birmingham this year, came up with a 7-5, 6-2 victory over Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova to set up a third-round encounter with Garbine Muguruza for the second straight major (Muguruza won at Roland Garros).

Agnieszka Radwanska is looking much better on grass than she has on any other surface this year. The former Wimbledon finalist cruised past Ajla Tomljanovic, 6-0, 6-2 to set up a third-rounder with Casey Dellacqua.

Dellacqua knocked off rising star Elina Svitolina in straight sets.

 

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