Sharapova, Roddick out in second round of Wimbledon

OUT SHE GOES: Sharapova (L) walks out as Alla Kudryavtseva waves to the crowd after pulling off an upset win.

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"Maybe it will sound a little too much, but I did expect to win," Kudryavtseva said. "I did think about winning, not just going and playing."

It was clear from the start Thursday that Sharapova was off her game _ other than her shrieking grunts, this wasn't her usual self. She looked listless and finished with 22 unforced errors and eight double faults.

Asked what went wrong, she said, "Not sure. It's a question I'll be asking myself. I think I've got to look at the tape to see what went wrong. It went a little fast to analyze it right now. I felt that I wasn't playing my game. I was letting her take control of the majority of the points."

Sharapova served three double faults in one game and Kudryavtseva took her chances and swept the first set easily in 32 minutes. Kudryavtseva also looked shaky at times in the second set, serving three double faults in the opening game. Sharapova went ahead 2-0, then dropped four straight games.

With Kudryavtseva leading 4-3, Sharapova's second serve on break point was called out, but she challenged the call and the Hawk-Eye replay system showed the ball was in, giving her another chance. When Sharapova served an ace on game point to make it 4-4, she shouted and pumped her fist and seemed to have the momentum.

But Kudryavtseva took the next two games to close out the match. Sharapova double faulted to give her opponent match point, and she converted with a crosscourt forehand winner.

For the second straight match, four-time champion Williams faced a modest British opponent in the opening contest on Centre Court and was tested to the limit in the first set. The pattern and result were almost identical from her 7-6 (5), 6-1 win over Naomi Cavaday on Tuesday.

The first set alone lasted 1 hour, 9 minutes as Williams struggled to take command against a determined 92nd-ranked player who came into the tournament with only one win at Wimbledon in seven attempts.

"I lost a little bit of focus but got it back thankfully," the American said.

Williams finished with six double faults and 26 unforced errors, 10 more than Keothavong.

Second-seeded Jelena Jankovic advanced by beating Spanish wild card entry Carla Suarez Navarro, 6-1, 6-3.

Nadal, a two-time Wimbledon runner-up who swept to his fourth straight French Open title without dropping a set, lost the first set against the talented Gulbis — a quarterfinalist at the French — when he was broken in the 12th game.

But Nadal sailed through the next set, took the third in a tiebreaker and got the decisive break for 5-3 in the fourth.

No. 9 James Blake — who has never gone past the third round at Wimbledon — lost to Germany's Rainer Schuettler, 6-3, 6-7 (8), 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 and No. 12 Andy Murray had a 6-4, 6-2, 6-2 win over Belgium's Xavier Malisse.

The women's field lost one former champion, 1999 winner Lindsay Davenport, when she withdrew with a right knee injury before her second-round match against Argentina's Gisela Dulko.

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