London: Defending champion Andy Murray dropped just two games as he overwhelmed Blaz Rola of Slovenia to reach the third round at Wimbledon on Wednesday.
Murray trounced the 92nd-ranked Slovenian 6-1, 6-1, 6-0 on Court 1 in a commanding performance as he seeks to become the first British player to retain the Wimbledon crown in 77 years.
Murray broke eight times, saved the only three break points against him and had only 13 unforced errors.
The 23-year-old Rola, playing in his first Wimbledon, has been playing mainly on the lower-tier Challenger Circuit and has very little grass-court experience.
In another match, the man who shocked Roger Federer at Wimbledon a year ago, Sergiy Stakhovsky, pulled off another surprise on Wednesday.
The 90th-ranked Stakhovsky used the same serve-and-volley style that worked against Federer in 2013 to beat 12th-seeded Ernests Gulbis 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (5) and get to the third round at the All England Club.
Last year, seven-time Wimbledon champion Federer's streak of 36 consecutive major quarterfinals ended with a loss in the second round to Stakhovsky, who then lost his next four Grand Slam matches in a row.
But back at Wimbledon, the Ukrainian found his touch again, winning points on 32 of 45 trips to the net.
Gulbis, who reached the semifinals at the French Open this month, double-faulted nine times.
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