Clijsters won 6-0, 6-0 in just 31 minutes. But as brisk and brutal as Williams’ display was, it wasn’t even close to being the shortest woman’s match at Wimbledon. Williams’ win over Vesnina was not even the shortest match of the day Phil Shephard-Lewis for The TimesIt was a blink-and-you-miss it victory from Serena Williams as she swatted aside Russia’s Elena Vesnina 6-2, 6-0 in just 49 minutes. The second speediest victory came last year, when Petra Kvitova beat Kiki Bertens 6-1, 6-0 in 36 minutes. The briefest encounter in the last 15 years (since data started being recorded) was the first-round match between Kim Clijsters and Paraguay’s Rossana Neffa de los Rios in 2003.

Source: The Times July 07, 2016 16:07 UTC