Five-time Wimbledon champion Venus Williams breezed into the Rome Open third round at the Foro Italico here on Tuesday with a 6-2, 6-2 dismantling of Patty Schnyder. Playing in her first match in more than a month due to a knee problem, Williams needed only an hour and a quarter to win her second round tie. The victory ensured the world number four maintained her 100 percent record against Schnyder with her 10th win out of 10 against the Swiss. Ironically both sets followed identical patterns with the first three games going against the server and then Williams breaking in the seventh game as well before serving out. Serving for the first set she needed four goes to wrap it up, finally doing so with a service winner. In the second she went down 0-40 when serving for the match but Schnyder could not take advantage of her first two break opportunities and then a lucky net cord saved Venus on the third. In other matches, Polish eighth seed Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland thrashed home favourite Roberta Vinci 6-1, 6-0 while there were also wins for 14th seed Nadia Petrova and 16th seed Shahar Peer. 