Serena Williams advances in French Open 2019

 PARIS, France -
 No.10 seed Serena Williams enjoyed a much more comfortable second-round win at the French Open on Thursday, as she dispatched Japanese qualifier Kurumi Nara, 6-3, 6-2.

Simona halep advances in Wimbledon 2018. Kurumi Nara out

LONDON, Great Britain
Top seed Simona Halep hurried through her first match as a Grand Slam champion, striking 19 winners to knock out Japan's Kurumi Nara, 6-2, 6-4 on Centre Court at Wimbledon.

Venus Williams advances to third round into french open 2017

Venus Williams surged into the Roland-Garros third round with clinical 6-3, 6-1 win over world No.90 Kurumi Nara.

The 2002 finalist, playing in an open-era record 20th appearance at the French Open, struck 30 winners en route to victory.
“It's always a joy when you can control the match. The first set she played well, just amazing defense and offense,” said Williams, who claimed a 250th Grand Slam main draw win. “Today's match was definitely less errors than the first match, that is something to build on. It was a little bit tricky there, but I still controlled the match. That always feels good.”
The American began the match with a rocket return, before sauntering into the net to pick off the volley. That set the tone for a sparkling performance.

Venus Williams won nine of the last 10 games to beat Kurumi Nara and reach the ASB Classic quarterfinals.

It looked like Nara was going to pose a threat early on as she twice came back from a break down and, after roughly half an hour, was leading 4-3. But the No.3-seeded Williams took it up several levels from there, reeling off nine of the next 10 games to run away with a 6-4, 6-1 victory in 65 minutes. 

 "Today was a different match than yesterday - not as straightforward," Williams, who dropped just one game in her first round match, said. "I was playing an opponent with more experience. She's very tenacious despite her size. She knows how to construct points, she plays great defense and can go on the offense as well, so it's a good match to have under my belt this early on in the season.
"Williams, who is coming off her first Top 20 season since 2010, is hoping for big things in 2015. 
 "I always had goals, but in life things never really work out the way you think they're going to," Williams said. "It's been that way my whole career - you say, 'I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do that,' but sometimes you fall a little bit short, and sometimes you do more than you ever thought you could. 

VENUS WILLIAMS ADVANCES IN THE CHAMPIOSHIPS WIMBLEDON 2014

It would seem that the reports of Williams’s demise have been exaggerated. At the age of 33 and suffering from Sjorgen’s Syndrome, she is supposed to be a spent force, past it, consigned to history. 

But you write off Venus at your peril. The former champion has no intention of going anywhere for a very long time to come. She moved impressively into the third round with a 7-6, 6-1 win over the diminutive Kurumi Nara on Wednesday, the world No.41 from Japan, and much as a couple of wins does not constitute a championship-winning run, she clearly has plans to stay in town for a while. She served well enough, she hit 46 winners, she kept the error count down to a respectable 16 and she bossed the show once the first set was done. Back in 2011, Venus revealed that she had been diagnosed with Sjorgen’s Syndrome, an auto-immune disorder that leaves the sufferer with a range of symptoms from a dry mouth to joint pain and chronic fatigue. 
Yet, through diet, careful management of her schedule and grim determination not to be beaten, she has found a way to compete at the top level despite everything. There are still good days and bad days, but Venus will not give in. And as she pushed Nara this way and that on No.3 Court, it was the Japanese who was struggling physically, not Venus. It did appear that Venus was running the legs off her opponent – and that really did not seem fair as they were not very big legs to begin with. Before anyone starts complaining about gratuitous short jokes, it was the lack of height that was causing the problems. This is a serious tennis point. Nara is a tiny but perfectly formed 5ft 1ins short and weighs in at 116lbs. 
Venus is a full foot taller at 6ft 1ins and she weighs in at 160lbs, most of it leg and muscle. In boxing terms, that is like a flyweight taking on a light-middle weight – and even in the more brutal world of pugilism, that would simply not be allowed. Unable to out-hit her predominantly taller foes (she is the shortest player in the world’s top 100), Nara has to rely on craft, skill and pinpoint accuracy if she is to have a chance.