Serbian Novak Djokovic has really shown his aspirations for the Olympic gold medal after beating American Andy Roddick by a clear 6-2, 6-1 in the second round of the tennis discipline at Wimbledon on Tuesday, July 31.

The world’s second-ranked, Djokovic had little trouble against the American and finished with a clear score to the three-time Wimbledon finalist, Andy Roddick.

After a steady start on Centre Court at Wimbledon, Djokovic broke the Nebraskan player’s serve two times (on the sixth and eighth game), to take the first set in 30 minutes by a 6-2 score.

In the second set, the Serbian managed to break his serve in the second game to Roddick, who usually performs well on the grass. Djokovic destroyed Roddick’s chances with a convincing 6-1 after just 54 minutes on the court.

“It was a perfect match in every sense,” Djokovic said after the game ended.

Novak Djokovic is playing at the All England Club, which has the same settings as the Wimbledon. He is aiming for the gold medal and winning back his place as the world’s number one, which Swiss player Roger Federer took from him just twenty days ago.

Murray also won on Tuesday after beating Finish player Jarkko Nieminen (6-2 y 6-4). Therefore it seems that number two on the ATP ranking Djokovic and number four Andy Murray, will play each other if they both keep winning, since they are in the same side of the pairing chart. However, before this can happen Djokovic will have to play against the winning racquet of the game between Croatian Marin Cilic and Australian Lleyton Hewitt.

With the loss against Djokovic, Roddick says goodbye to the Olympics 2012. Rumor has it that he might be thinking about retirement, but the tennis player has yet to confirm speculations, saying: “That’s not something that I’m going to talk about.”

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The Williams sisters had mixed fortunes during the tennis third round games played on the 1st of August. Serena won the game against Russian Vera Zvonareva, and reached the Olympic quarterfinals. A round that will not be played by her sister Venus, who was defeated by German Angelique Kerber.

Serena Williams beat number 13 seeded Vera Zvonareva in a 51 minute game. In that short time the American destroyed Russian player by both clear 6-1 and 6-0 scores. Williams hit 32 winners to three for the Russian.

Williams has become the biggest nightmare for Vera Zvonareva, who was also defeated by the American in the 2010 Wimbledon final.

In the three matches played so far, Serena has only lost 10 games. She made declarations in the aftermath in which said that her older sister Venus is her inspiration: “I was inspired by her. I watched her and I said, ‘Serena, you need to play better or she’s getting the gold’.”

But Serena will not have to worry about her sister anymore, since Venus got eliminated by number 7 seeded German Angelique Kerber. The scores were 7-6 for the first set and again 7-6 for the second one.

However, Venus does not say goodbye to the Olympics, since she will still have to play with her sister Serena in doubles, where they are in the quarterfinals.

Now the hopes for U.S. women tennis are deposited in the third-time Olympian Serena, the winner of two gold medals in doubles and 14 major titles, but who still has not won a singles medal in any Olympic competition.

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