Serena beat Vania King 6-3 6-3 in US Open

Serena beat Vania King 6-3 6-3 in a tidy 65 minutes to ease into the third round.

Serena was extremely critical of her performance, convinced it should have been better.

Serena has now racked up 86 victories at Flushing Meadows.

“It was a little different playing with Ashe closed but it still feels great,” said Williams. “It’s very, very loud out there.

“It’s definitely different because everywhere you play is really quiet. Here it’s super loud.”

“I just think it should have been a different scoreline for me,” said Williams. “I feel like I made a lot of errors but there’s nothing I can do about that now.

“What really matters is I got the win.”

Williams arrived at the year’s final grand slam with concerns swirling around a sore shoulder that hampered her at the Rio Olympics and forced her to pull out of a tournament in Cincinnati.

But she put any doubts about her fitness to rest, blasting 13 aces past King while hitting 38 winners to just four by her opponent.

“It’s stable, I just got to keep it like that,” Williams said of her right shoulder. “It’s two matches in and usually you want to be able to play seven matches