Serena Williams Tops Tamira Paszek, 6-3, 6-2, in First Round at Australian Open MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - If anything, it was the insects buzzing around Rod Laver Arena that bothered Serena Williams the most. Her injured left ankle held up fine in her opening match Tuesday at the Australian Open, and even the near-midnight start time was O.K. But the bugs? "I hate bugs more than you can imagine," Williams said after reaching the second round by beating Tamira Paszek, 6-3, 6-2. "I'm going to request not to play at night anymore because I hate bugs, except for the final," Williams said. I heard it's at night. Two years after her last Australian Open title, Williams extended her winning streak to 15 matches at Melbourne Park in the season's first major tournament. The match started late because Williams and Paszek had to wait until the conclusion of a four-hour men's night match won by Lleyton Hewitt. It was Williams's first match since she badly sprained her ankle two weeks ago at the Brisbane International, an injury that jeopardized her participation in Melbourne. Williams was playing only her third match since losing the United States Open final to Samantha Stosur last September, and she said she was "a wee bit tight." She broke Paszek in the fifth game of the second set, then served four aces in the next game, which lasted less than a minute as she hurried to the finish. "Physically I felt fine," Williams said. I was definitely moving better than I suspected. Stosur, the last woman to beat Williams, did not make the second round. She lost, 7-6 (2), 6-3, to No. After surrendering her opening service game with a double fault, second-ranked Petra Kvitova won 12 consecutive games in a 6-2, 6-0 romp over Vera Dushevina of Russia. Hewitt, a two-time major winner and the former Australian Open finalist, gave the night session crowd something to cheer when he beat Cedrik-Marcel Stebe of Germany, 7-5, 6-4, 3-6, 7-5, winning the last six games to overcome two service breaks in the last set. Hewitt will face his old rival Andy Roddick, who defeated Robin Haase of the Netherlands, 6-3, 6-4, 6-1. The defending champion and top-ranked Novak Djokovic dropped an early service game before winning the last 17 games to beat Paolo Lorenzi of Italy, 6-2, 6-0, 6-0. He wore pair of red, white and blue shoes with images of his three major trophies he won in 2011 on the sides and a Serbian flag on the heels. "I just have more confidence that I'm playing on right now," Djokovic said. I just believe that I can win, especially against the biggest rivals in the major events. Andy Murray, runner-up here the last two years, beat the American teenager Ryan Harrison, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-2. Sixth-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, beaten by Djokovic in the 2008 final, eliminated Denis Istomin, 6-4, 3-6, 6-2, 7-5.