Serena Williams makes it to Australian Open 3rd round

MELBOURNE, Australia — Serena Williams has swiftly moved through to the third round at Melbourne Park with a 6-1, 6-2 win over Taiwan's Hsieh Su-wei in exactly one hour.

Williams has only fallen in the second round of a Grand Slam tournament wice in her career — losing to her sister Venus in her Australian Open debut in 1998, and being beaten by Garbine Muguruza at the 2014 French Open.

Williams had 26 winners, including seven aces in the Australian Open match. She even hit one shot around the post in the match, which she said afterward was the first in her career. "Yay, never too late," she said.

Williams' next opponent will be an 18-year-old — she'll face the winner of the match between Russia's Daria Kasatkina and Croatia's Ana Konjuh, who were both born the year before Williams' first Australian Open.

(Sources from Philstar.com and Philippinemavericks.com)