Wozniacki advances with 6-0, 6-0 victory

Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark blows kisses to the crowd after she defeated Chang Kai-chen of Taiwan 6-0, 6-0 at the U.S. Open. (Sept. 2, 2010) Credit: AP
It doesn't get any easier than this.
Caroline Wozniacki, the No. 1 seed, swept through her match against Kai-Chen Chang, 6-0, 6-0, in 47 minutes Thursday, barely enough time to work up a sweat in the continuing steaminess of the National Tennis Center. Chang only won 24 points and Wozniacki only had to win 52 points to move on to the third round where she will meet Yung-Jan Chan, who like Chang is from Chinese Taipei.
Wozniacki is the only player on tour to have won four tournaments this year, most recently in New Haven on Sunday. She lost only two games in winning her first round match against Chelsey Gullickson. You can't blame her for living up to her nickname "Sunshine" when asked if the easy matches were enough to make her championship ready.
"I've played tough matches in the previous weeks," she said. "I've been playing really great tennis. I'm feeling good, so no worries . . . For it's just about winning and getting through to the next rounds. As long as I win, it really doesn't matter how the match looks like."
After Chan won Thursday she described playing against Wozniacki as hitting against a wall - everything comes back. "That's a good feeling when they are already before the match think like that," Wozniacki said. "I don't give any free points away."
She's down right miserly.
As easy as Wozniacki had it, Jelena Jankovic again had to work hard, this time against Mirjana Lucic. She came away with a 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 win. She seemed to drag herself to victory, something that was apparent in a first-round win over Simona Halep. "I wish I could kind of be more happy out there," Jankovic said. "I'm working on it."
Yanina Wickmayer, the 15th seed and a semifinalist last year, beat Julia Goerges, 6-4, 7-5. Wickmayer and Jankovic are a win away from a meeting in the round of 16.
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