Serena dominates in US Open

Associated Press

NEW YORK

Leave it to Serena Williams to come up with a creative way to judge just how much the air was whipping around at the U.S. Open on Tuesday night.

“I usually gauge the wind by my hair,” Williams said. “If it’s really going forward, I’m thinking, ‘It’s really windy.”’

That it was. It just didn’t bother Williams too much in a 6-1, 6-1 victory over 75th-ranked CoCo Vandeweghe of the U.S. in the first round at Flushing Meadows.

Williams needed less than an hour to move into the second round of a tournament she won in 1999, 2002 and 2008.

Coming off titles at Wimbledon and the London Olympics, Williams looked sharp.