It was Nadal's first chance to play the tournament's opening match on Centre Court, an honor given to the defending men's champion. It'll be Sweeting's third match against Nadal this year. Nadal won the others in straight sets .
Four seeded players exited Monday, including No. 28 Ekaterina Makarova of Russia, who lost 2-6, 6-1, 8-6 to 19-year-old American Christina McHale . Today's forecast calls for more rain.
Two matches were played under the retractable roof . That included two-time Wimbledon semifinalist Murray's 4-6, 6-3, 6-0, 6-0 victory over 59th-ranked Daniel Gimeno-Traver of Spain. Williams, once ranked No. 1, dropped to 33rd this month. Kimiko Date-Krumm is 40; her 6-0, 7-5 defeat over British wild-card entry Katie O'Brien was her first victory at Wimbledon since reaching the 1996 semifinals. Other matches today: No. 2 Novak Djokovic vs. Jeremy Chardy, No. 3 Roger Federer vs. Mikhail Kukushkin, No. 8 Andy Roddick vs. Andreas Beck; No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki vs. Arantxa Parra Santonja, No. 3 Li Na vs. Alla Kudryavtseva, No. 7 Serena Williams vs. Aravane Rezai.
As is tradition, the defending champion opened proceedings on Center Court with Rafael Nadal recovering from an early hiccup to coast past American Michael Russell in straight sets 6-4, 6-2, 6-2. Other seeds to advance to round 2 were Gael Monfils, Mardy Fish, Stanislas Wawrinka and Milos Raonic.
Russell had Nadal under pressure in the Spanish maestro's opening service game and though Rafa survived a breakpoint, he was eventually broken by the ebullient American for a 4-2 lead. A break of serve though counts for naught unless consolidated, and Rafa prevented that from happening as he broke right back in the following game. Monfils beat German Matthias Bachinger 6-4, 7-6(3), 6-3 while Mardy Fish quelled the challenge of Marcel Granollers 7-6(3), 7-6(5), 6-4. Five time champion Venus Williams showed glimpses of her championship winning form by coasting into round 2 at the expense of all 6 feet 3 inches of Akgul Amanmuradova.
The opening set was decided by a solitary break in the 4th game when Amanmuradova played a poor drop shot at breakpoint. Venus held serve with relative ease until she was put under slight pressure in the 9th game while serving for the set. Out on court 1, 2nd seed Vera Zvonareva, a beaten finalist in both the ladies' singles and doubles event last year, started like a house on fire handing 20-year American Alison Riske an opening set bagel. Also falling in the first round was 28th seeded Russian Ekaterina Makarova, beaten in arguably the ladies match of the day thus far, 2-6, 6-1, 8-6 by American teenager Christina McHale.
Men's Singles Round 1
[1] Rafael Nadal (ESP) d. Michael Russell (USA) 64 62 62
[9] Gael Monfils (FRA) d. Matthias Bachinger (GER) 64 76(3) 63
[14] Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI) d. Potito Starace (ITA) 63 64 64
[10] Mardy Fish (USA) d. Marcel Granollers (ESP) 76(3) 76(5) 64
Feliciano Lopez (ESP) d. Michael Berrer (GER) 64 75 63
Ryan Sweeting (USA) d. Pablo Andujar (ESP) 36 46 61 76(1) 61
Grega Zemlja (SLO) d. Lukas Lacko (SVK) 64 36 76(8) 64
Julien Benneteau (FRA) d. Ruben Bemelmans (BEL) 64 62 36 46 61
[31] Milos Raonic (CAN) d. Marc Gicquel (FRA) 63 76 63
Denis Istomin (UZB) d. Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER) 46 63 63 63
Rainer Schuettler (GER) d. [30] Thomaz Bellucci (BRA) 76(3) 64 62
Alex Bogomolov Jr. (USA) d. Donald Young (USA) 75 46 63 61
[17] Richard Gasquet(FRA) d. Santiago Giraldo(COL) 75 63 76(3)
Gilles Muller(LUX) d. Tommy Haas(GER) 76(5) 76(3) 36 63
Women's Singles Round 1
[2] Vera Zvonareva (RUS) d. Alison Riske (USA) 60 36 63
[23] Venus Williams (USA) d. Akgul Amanmuradova (UZB) 63 61
Kimiko Date-Krumm (JPN) d. Katie O’Brien (GBR) 60 75
[12] Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS) d. Shuai Zhang (CHN) 36 63 64
Elena Vesnina (RUS) d. Laura Pous-Tio (ESP) 64 63
Ksenia Pervak (RUS) d. [22] Shahar Peer (ISR) 57 64 64
Anna Tatishvili (GEO) d. Anastasia Pivovarova (RUS) 36 62 63
Pauline Parmentier (FRA) d. Sorana Cirstea (ROU) 61 63
Christina McHale (USA) d. [28] Ekaterina Makarova (RUS) 26 61 86
Ayumi Morita(JPN) vs. Tamira Paszek(AUT)
[19] Yanina Wickmayer (BEL) d. Varvara Lepchenko (USA) 7
The five-time Wimbledon winner beat 97th-ranked Akgul Amanmuradova of Uzbekistan 6-3, 6-1.
Kimiko Date-Krumm became the second oldest women to win a match at
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