Britain's Elena Baltacha loses the opening set 7-6 (7-4) against Slovenia's Katarina Srebotnik on Court Three The former British number one battles back to take the second set 6-3 but loses the third 6-2 to go out Slovakian tenth seed Daniela Hantuchova races to a 6-0 6-1 victory over Russia's wildcard Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova Amelie Mauresmo dominates proceedings on Centre Court as she begins the defence of her title against Jamea Jackson Mauresmo is hardly tested by her opponent as she wraps up a 6-1 6-3 win in just one hour and three minutes Carlos Moya and Tim Henman are next on Centre Court, resuming at 5-5 in the final set A tense affair ensues with a number of tight line calls disputed as the players hold serve for the first 13 games Having earned a seventh match point, Henman watches as Moya double faults to hand him a 6-3 1-6 5-7 6-2 13-11 win Katie O'Brien is the first Briton to make the second round as she wins 6-3 7-5 against Germany's Sandra Kloesel Number 12 seed Richard Gasquet (right) opens proceedings on Court 5 where he defeats Bohdan Ulihrach in straight sets Two-time Grand Slam winner Marat Safin also makes smooth progress defeating Rik De Voest 7-6 6-4 7-5 on Court 13 Having never got beyond the third round, world number nine James Blake sees off Igor Andreev without dropping a set Argentina's Juan Ignacio Chela wins a lengthy match 3-6 4-6 6-4 6-4 10-8 against Germany's Benjamin Becker Australia's Lleyton Hewitt beats Britain's number four Richard Bloomfield in straight sets - winning the match 7-5 6-3 7-5 French Open champion Rafael Nadal claims a solid 6-3 7-6 (7-4) 6-3 victory over America's Mardy Fish on Centre Court Number two seed Maria Sharapova hardly breaks sweat as she breezes through the opening set against Yung-Jan Chan The Russian is made to dig deep in the second set but prevails to beat Chan 6-1 7-5 on Court One Venus Williams avoids a shock defeat at the hands of Alla Kudryavtseva on Court Two - winning the clash 2-6 6-3 7-5 Fourth seed Novak Djokovic of Serbia takes a 6-0 6-3 lead over Italy's Potito Starace in the last match on Centre Court Djokovic wastes little time in wrapping up a 6-0 6-3 6-4 victory and will now take on Amer Delic in round two
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