Serena Williams rolls at Australian Open, her best start in 5 years

Serena Williams is into the Australian Open third round having lost just five games, her most efficient first two rounds of a Grand Slam in five years.

Williams, wearing a Florence Griffith Joyner-inspired outfit and eyeing a record-tying 24th Grand Slam singles title, dispatched 99th-ranked Serbian Nina Stojanovi\u0107 6-3, 6-0 on Wednesday.

She next gets Anastasia Potapova, a 19-year-old Russian whom she beat 6-0, 6-3 in the first round of last year’s Australian Open.

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Williams, the 10th seed, conceded her fewest games in the first two rounds of a major since the 2016 French Open, when she also dropped a handful.

She put to rest any concern about an Achilles…