Top seed Maria Sharapova produced a stellar performance to open her U.S. Open campaign with a 6-1 6-1 demolition of Greece's Eleni Daniilidou on Monday.
The Russian world number two saved six break points in her first two service games before stepping up a gear to ease to victory in 66 minutes, finishing off the match with a sublime backhand topspin lob.
"I felt really good. It feels good to get back into action," she said.
"I think there's always room for improvement and hopefully I'll keep improving."
In the next round Maria will play Dally Randriantefy of Madagascar. Maria has never player Randriantefy before.
August 30th, 2005
Posted by: Marco
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