WIMBLEDON, England(AP) Former champion Maria Sharapova has reached the third round of Wimbledon after a straight-sets victory over Romania's Ioana Raluca Olaru.
The 16th-seeded Sharapova, the only champion in the women's draw other than the Williams sisters, advanced Thursday with a 6-1, 6-4 win.
The 2002 champion, who won 20 of 23 points at the net, breezed through the first set but met more resistance from the 114th-ranked Olaru in the second.
Olaru broke back in the eighth game to level the set but handed the advantage back to the Russian in the following game with a double fault.
Sharapova will play either 24th-seeded Daniela Hantuchova or Barbora Zahlavova Strycova in the next round.