Serena Williams 拒絶するs suggestions she's past her best as she （人命などを）奪う，主張するs 300th Grand 激突する 勝利，勝つ with straight 始める，決めるs 破壊 of?Annika Beck on Centre 法廷，裁判所

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Serena Williams was subdued, bored, not 特に 利益／興味d in discussing her 最新の 行為／法令／行動する of tennis 暴力／激しさ. Then with one muddled question she took 穏やかな offence and woke up.

She had been asked if she recognised the 圧力s on Novak Djokovic to 勝利，勝つ each match he plays, which seemed a reasonable enough question in the 状況 of the セルビア人’s 予期しない fallibility. But the phrasing snagged with Williams, when it was put to her that ‘you have been in those 状況／情勢s’.

老年の 34 and entering her 177th straight week as world No 1, Williams is evidently not willing to talk about her best days in the past 緊張した.

Serena WIlliams is through to the last 16 after （人命などを）奪う，主張するing her 300th Grand 激突する 勝利，勝つ against Annika Beck

Williams 認めるs her fans after （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域ing the German in straight 始める，決めるs 6-3, 6-0 in just 51 minutes

‘I am in those 状況／情勢s ― I wouldn’t say I have been,’ she said after 破壊するing Annika Beck 6-3, 6-0. ‘Every time I step out on the 法廷，裁判所, if I don’t 勝利，勝つ, it’s major 国家の news.’

This was not an obvious day for wondering if the end was nigh for Williams, such was the brutality of two 始める，決めるs that took only 51 minutes.?

The second saw the defending 支持する／優勝者 減少（する） only four points, 非，不，無 on her own serve.

In a draw where few of the women are making 広大な／多数の／重要な noises Williams, as ever, is looking like a reliable bet.?

It has been that way across almost two １０年間s in which she has 達成するd ‘extreme history’, as she put it on Sunday.

But how much more can she make??

She has reached the age when it is natural to ask if she will soon lose 勢い as the 難破させるing ball of women’s tennis. Having lost only four of her 25 （テニスなどの）シングルス 決勝戦 in 激突するs before this year, she has lost two in a 列／漕ぐ／騒動 at the Australian and French Opens.?

Williams romped to victory after dropping serves 早期に on and 収容する／認めるs she'd like to 'get out to a faster start'

Annika Beck returns a 発射 on Day Seven but was unable to stop Williams sailing through to the next 一連の会議、交渉／完成する

By the absurd 基準s of a player who has won 21 major 肩書を与えるs, that is a 低迷. And there has been the slightest whiff of 疑惑 that she might have 疑問s in her own mind about how much その上の she can go.

That will be better 実験（する）d as she goes deeper into this tournament. Beck was never up to the challenge, にもかかわらず 上陸 a break 早期に in the match. Her first serves of 85mph were routinely 粉砕するd to all corners by the six-time 支持する／優勝者. Beck looked like a little girl in the presence of the most formidable woman to play the sport.

Williams moves on to the more 厳しい prospect of 13th seed Svetlana Kuznetsova, who has beaten the American in two of their past three matches. Williams said: ‘We have played a lot. She’s won a lot. I have won a lot.?

Williams, who looks a good bet for another Wimbledon 肩書を与える, 直面するs Svetlana Kuznetsova in the next 一連の会議、交渉／完成する

Williams is now just three games away from yet another place in the final at Wimbledon in SW19

'We are both ready for this match, we’re both going to give it our heart, as we always do when we play each other. She knows my game and I know her game.?

'Then it’s just 負かす／撃墜する to who is really going to fight to 勝利，勝つ it.’

Fighting is the one thing that can be 保証（人）d with Williams, as was shown when she thought she was 存在 called a has-been. You wouldn’t bet against her in the fight with age, either.