After getting her "butt kicked" by Caroline Wozniacki in Miami, the poor moment of form for Sloane Stephens in the USA drags on in Charleston. 5th seed at the Family Circle Cup - first tournament of the season to be played on clay - Sloane hit another stumble, exiting the tournament at her debut match.

Immediately down 1-5 in the first set, Sloane was frustrated with her tennis. "I hit a total of 60 unforced errors in the first set, immediately down 5-1 in just 12 minutes" said Sloane after the match. Despite the frustration of finding it hard to keep the ball on court the world No.

18 fought back to get to 4-5. But it was too late. World No.35 Elina Svitolina kept winning the longer rallies, then eventually the match, with the final score of 6-4 6-4 in 1 our and 25 minutes. After Serena's early exit it was time for Venus to keep up the good tradition for the Williams family in Charleston.

In her second round appearance, Venus managed to gain the edge over Chanelle Scheepers in straight sets. After struggling beyond any expectation to sail into the second round, Venus was once again not really convincing on Charleston's green clay.

The World No.28, champion in Dubai last month, hit a total of 4 double faults and lost serve 4 times en route to her 7-5 7-5 victory over the South African veteran. After 1 hour and 48 minutes Williams could eventually breath her sigh of relief, moving into the third round where she'll meet Eugenie Bouchard. Also advancing to the third round were 3rd seed Sara Errani and 4th seed Sabine Lisicki.

Here all the second round results from Charleston: [13] Elena Vesnina (RUS) d Petra Cetkovska (CZE) | 3 - 6 | 6 - 2 | 6 - 4 | [12] Daniela Hantuchova (SVK) d [Q] Grace Min (USA) | 6 - 2 | 6 - 3 | [4] Sabine Lisicki (GER) d Vania King (USA) | 7 - 5 | 4 - 6 | 6 - 3 | [14] Andrea Petkovic (GER) d Lourdes Dominguez Lino (ESP) | 6 - 0 | 6 - 0 | Elina Svitolina (UKR) d [5] Sloane Stephens (USA) | 6 - 4 | 6 - 4 | [Q] Belinda Bencic (SUI) d Marina Erakovic (NZL) | 6 - 2 | 6 - 1 | Shuai Peng (CHN) d [15] Madison Keys (USA) | 6 - 1 | 6 - 7 (3) | 7 - 6 (4) | [3] Sara Errani (ITA) d [Q] Kiki Bertens (NED) | 6 - 3 | 0 - 0 | ret [11] Venus Williams (USA) d Chanelle Scheepers (RSA) | 7 - 5 | 7 - 5 |