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Defending champion Serena Williams breezes through the opening set, and quickly wraps up a 6-2 6-2 win over Elena Dementieva

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Second seed Kim Clijsters looks equally untroubled as she races to claim the first set against Ai Sugiyama

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13th-seeded Sugiyama finds her doubles partner in strong shape and bows out to the Belgian in straight sets 6-3 6-2

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French Open champion Justine Henin-Hardenne also makes easy progress into the last eight, brushing aside Mary Pierce 6-3 6-3

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Pierce has enjoyed a resurgence of form at Wimbledon but is unable to live with her Belgian opponent

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Venus Williams imposes her game on young Russian Vera Zvonareva to impressively bulldoze her way to the first set

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Zvonareva is unable to repeat her French Open success against Williams, going down 6-1 6-3 to the number four seed

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Anastasia Myskina is clinically destroyed 6-3 6-2 by eighth seed Jennifer Capriati, who eases into the quarter-finals

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Fifth-seeded Davenport claims the first set 6-4 against Sinobu Asagoe before cruising to victory 6-1 in the second

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Maria Sharapova has become the darling of the photographers this year but she struggles against compatriot Svetlana Kuznetsova

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Kuznetsova triumphs in three sets to end the 16-year-old Sharapova's impressive run at her first Wimbledon

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27th seed Silvia Farina Elia of Italy is made to work hard for her 7-5 7-6 victory over Paola Saurez