Maria makes short work of Karatantcheva

Champion Maria Sharapova showed no mercy at Wimbledon on Thursday, demolishing upstart Sesil Karatantcheva 6-0 6-1 in the second round.


In suffocating heat on Court One, the second seed initially struggled to keep her powerful game inside the white lines, but once she found her range the result was a foregone conclusion.



The 18-year-old Russian was taken to three deuces in an opening game littered with flashing winners and wayward missiles, but the occasion quickly engulfed 15-year-old Karatantcheva.




The biggest cheers of the match arrived when the Bulgarian finally got on the scoreboard in the 10th game, but it was delaying the inevitable as Sharapova scorched through.


In the next round Maria will either play Katarina Srebotnik of slovenia or Yoon Jeong Cho of Korea.