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		</div><p>Serena Williams insists her shoulder problem is not harming her performance after the American dispatched Ekaterina Makarova in the US Open first round.</p>
<p>Williams wore compression sleeves on both arms in Arthur Ashe Stadium but showed no visible sign of weakness as the world number one cruised to a 6-3 6-3 victory against the Russian.</p>
<p>She shot 12 aces with her faulty right shoulder and Makarova failed to create a single break point as Williams booked a second-round meeting with fellow American Vania King.</p>
<p>&#8220;No, I didn&#8217;t make too many adjustments,&#8221; Williams said.</p>
<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t hit my serves as hard as I normally hit them. I just went for more placement. I didn&#8217;t go for the big 120s, just the regular.&#8221;</p>
<p>Williams is bidding to win a 23rd grand slam title at Flushing Meadows, which would take her above Steffi Graf&#8217;s Open-era record and within one of Margaret Court&#8217;s all-time best.<br />
She added a note of caution to any optimism about her fitness, however, admitting she increasingly feels pain the day after a match.</p>
<p>&#8220;Usually it&#8217;s the day of (playing that I feel it),&#8221; Williams said.<br />
&#8220;But as time has progressed, and this past week it&#8217;s usually been the day after, so that&#8217;s a really positive thing.&#8221;</p>
<p>Elsewhere, Eugenie Bouchard crashed out in the first round but said she has not been distracted by her ongoing lawsuit against the tournament.</p>
<p>Bouchard is suing the grand slam and the United States Tennis Association after slipping on a wet changing room floor last year and having to withdraw from the competition.<br />
The Canadian&#8217;s misery at Flushing Meadows continued as she was beaten 6-3 3-6 6-2 by world number 72 Czech Katerina Siniakova.</p>
<p>&#8220;I am 100 per cent focused on tennis and I have lawyers who are working on the case and I don&#8217;t think about it often at all, maybe once a month when they call me,&#8221; Bouchard said.<br />
&#8220;I&#8217;m disappointed with what I think happened so I have to fight for what I think is right.&#8221;</p>
<p>Venus Williams joined her sister in the second round after edging past Ukraine&#8217;s Kateryna Kozlova 6-2 5-7 6-4.</p>
<p>Venus, now 36, has never lost a first round match in 18 appearances here but the veteran was pushed all the way by her world number 93 opponent.</p>
<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t know much about her game at all, literally zero, and it&#8217;s hard,&#8221; Williams said.<br />
&#8220;I haven&#8217;t played a single match in three weeks. Just getting out there and trying to play perfectly.</p>
<p>&#8220;I definitely had a lot more errors than I wanted. If I could cut those in half, it&#8217;s definitely a different story.&#8221;</p>
<p>Poland&#8217;s Agnieszka Radwanska and Romanian Simona Halep, the fourth and fifth seeds respectively, are also safely through.</p>
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