2024-06-28T14:52:48.580ZCoco Gauff won her first-round match in one hour, six minutes thanks in part to her blistering serve. (Mosa'ab Elshamy/AP)WIMBLEDON, England — The tennis star is managing her down time like most anyone these days, voluntarily spiking her anxiety by watching FX’s “The Bear” then winding back down with a good book — Caleb Azumah Nelson’s “Small Worlds,” currently, and before that the famed drag queen RuPaul Charles’s newest memoir.She has hobbies she’ll pick up on and off, including crochet and French lessons. She said she might pop by London’s West End on Wednesday night to see a show.When you’ve got as much free time as Coco Gauff does these days, you’ve got to do something to fill the hours.Gauff, the No. 2 seed at Wimbledon, zipped through her second-round match Wednesday against Romanian qualifier Anca Todoni, 6-2, 6-1, in 1 hour 6 minutes to set up a third-round match that’s sure to draw plenty of eyes at the All England Club when she faces British player Sonay Kartal.The quick victory was a continuation of a new pattern this year for the 20-year-old from Florida, a contrast to the early-round matches of last year’s Grand Slams. In 2023, Gauff often slogged her way through tight two-set matches or grit her teeth through three-set doozies. She had to win four three-set matches to earn the U.S. Open crown.This year, Gauff cruised through the first week at the Australian Open and French Opens, playing one three-set match in the quarterfinals of each tournament before losing in the semifinals.“I’m just getting better at taking care of business and trying to clean up and make sure that these matches don’t go three sets,” Gauff said, of her early-round success.She chalked up her newfound precision to carry-over from her U.S. Open win. Gauff captured the title in New York with what she said wasn’t her best tennis, which gave her added confidence when staring down Grand slam draws this year.It also helped her feel comfortable leaning into her most aggressive tennis, which serves her well on Wimbledon’s grass courts, where the speedy surface makes it more difficult to win points on defense.“You kind of want to be the first person to strike,” Gauff said.She dictated from start to finish Wednesday against Todoni, pummeling the ball when serving and winning 85 percent of points on her first serve.“I think I’m just going for it more and accepting the misses,” Gauff said. “I think today, I had a really low first-serve percentage in the first set and maybe in the second it got higher,” Gauff said. She made 38 percent of her first serves in the first set and 53 percent in the second.The victory keeps Gauff in good position to make a deep run in what is a fairly open women’s draw. Top-ranked Iga Swiatek is the title favorite and plays unseeded Petra Martic of Croatia in the second round on Thursday, and 2022 Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina remains a threat. She plays Laura Siegemund in the second round Thursday as well.But third-seeded Aryna Sabalenka withdrew Tuesday with a shoulder injury and later in the day, reigning champion Marketa Vondrousova became the first defending champ to lose in the first round in 30 years, ensuring this will be the seventh consecutive tournament Wimbledon crowns a different women’s title winner. Gauff took note of that as she examined the champions wall at the practice facility on Wimbledon’s grounds.“It was a lot of different names, which is something new — not new, kind of new, post Serena [Williams], post a lot of the legends,” Gauff said. “It just shows there’s a lot of talent on the women’s tour and it’s anybody’s game … My outlook, I mean, it gives you confidence obviously when you see that the field isn’t stacked. I guess stacked in the way where there’s one player dominating or three players dominating. I think everybody has an equal shot and it’s just about who can perform better that week.”No. 19 seed Emma Navarro advanced to the second round at Wimbledon for the first time with a win over Naomi Osaka on Wednesday. (Henry Nicholls/AFP via Getty Images)Naomi Osaka, the four-time Grand Slam champion who is seven months into her comeback after giving birth a year ago, was another big name to fall Wednesday. She lost to No. 19 seed American Emma Navarro, 6-4, 6-1, in a 59-minute sprint on Center Court.Osaka looked rattled from nearly the beginning and Navarro was able to take advantage, winning 82 percent of points on her first serve. The 23-year-old former NCAA champion at Virginia moved into the third round in her second Wimbledon appearance with gutsy tennis, keeping points short and playing a clean match — she had just five unforced errors.“Something that she does really well is obviously she has a really big serve, so I knew that was going to be something that I was going to have to deal with today,” Navarro said. “I tried to move my positioning around against first serves. I don’t know, maybe that got in her head a little bit. I wanted to try to make