Serena Williams has sent out a warning to her opponents that she is growing in confidence at Wimbledon 2011.
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Serena Williams, the former world number one, has missed so much tennis in the last year that many were questioning her ability to win a fifth title at Wimbledon 2011. However the American's abilities were on full display in round three as she advanced with a superb 6-3 6-2 win over Maria Kirilenko.
"That was the best I've played since I came back, so it's good," said the American after her comfortable victory. "I wouldn't bet against me.
"I was a little more consistent and I played my game more. I wasn't as tight and nervous and uptight as I have been.
"I was able to relax more. I had a discussion with myself, my dad and my friends. I was telling them I couldn't relax.
"They told me I had to relax. They said it doesn't matter what happens, you've done so much and I was just really able to relax.
"I was always thinking I can get hurt again, but you must let those thoughts go or anything could happen.
"I'd been thinking I could slip and I wasn't thinking that at all. That was a big difference."
Williams faces number nine seed Marion Bartoli for a place in the quarter-finals. Williams is a favorite in the match but Bartoli, a semifinalist from Roland Garros, is certainly not a player who will be pushed over if Williams is not playing with confidence.
