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itemprop="description" class="caption"> Serena Williams beat Vania King 6-3,6-3 to progress to the third round of the US Open <span class="copyright">Getty</span> </figcaption> </figure> <div class="article-wrapper clearfix"> <div class="main-content-column"> <div class="text-wrapper" itemprop="articleBody"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160903213314/http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/SerenaWilliams" target="_blank">Serena Williams</a> reflected on a "cool milestone" after equalling Martina Navratilova's Open-era record for grand slam women's singles wins.</p> <p>Williams moved level with Navratilova's 306 major tournament victories by easing past fellow American Vania King 6-3 6-3 in the second round at Flushing Meadows.</p> <p>The world number one has never lost before round three at the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160903213314/http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/USOpen-Tennis" target="_blank">US Open</a> and, with Beyonce and Jay-Z watching on in Arthur Ashe Stadium, she was delighted to reach Navratilova's mark.</p> <div class="inline-block inline-block-related-single inline-block-left" data-nid="/sport/tennis/us-open-dan-evans-revels-in-best-win-of-my-career-after-beating-alexander-zverev-to-reach-third-a7221286.html"><a href="/web/20160903213314/http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/tennis/us-open-dan-evans-revels-in-best-win-of-my-career-after-beating-alexander-zverev-to-reach-third-a7221286.html"><img src="/web/20160903213314im_/http://www.independent.co.uk/s3/files/styles/readmore_card/public/thumbnails/image/2016/09/02/08/dan-evans1.jpg"/><div class="content"> <div class="context-capsule">Read more</div> <h2>Evans revels in 'best win of my career'</h2> </div> </a></div> <p>"Sometimes I don't even know that I'm hitting these milestones," Williams said.</p> <p>"But some of them I'm really proud of. Like this one's kind of cool, to win 306. That's really a cool milestone.</p> <p>"Martina was just an incredible legend. For me, one of the best players to ever play tennis.</p> <p>"Someone that I never even thought I could be as good as numbers-wise. So, yeah, that's what I think of her."</p> <figure class="mediaembed"><div id="GN34599"> </div> <script type="text/javascript" src="//web.archive.org/web/20160903213314js_/http://apps.graphicnews.com/respons.php?ct=gb34599rlo117nin107wen"></script></figure><p>Williams is bidding to achieve another milestone in New York, where success would see her overtake Steffi Graf's Open-era record 22 grand slam singles titles.</p> <p>The top seed was not at her blistering best against her King, making 28 unforced errors, but this was her second straight-sets victory and she was in control throughout.</p> <p>"I just think it should have been a different scoreline for me. I feel like I made a lot of errors," Williams said.</p> <p>"I just didn't have a great day today. But it's always good to get a win when you're not playing well. I definitely don't think I played the way I did in my first round."</p> <p>Williams will now face Sweden's Johanna Larsson for a place in the last 16 and the 34-year-old insists her troublesome right shoulder is still holding up.</p> <p>"It's stable. I just got to keep it like that," Williams said.</p> <div class="dnd-widget-wrapper context-sdl_editor_representation type-image"><div class="dnd-atom-rendered"><!-- scald=4633371:sdl_editor_representation --><div class="image"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160903213314im_/http://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_medium/public/thumbnails/image/2016/09/02/11/serena-williams.jpg" width="564" height="423" alt="serena-williams.jpg" title="serena-williams.jpg"/></div><!-- END scald=4633371 --></div><div class="dnd-caption-wrapper">Serena Williams waves to her fans after defeating Vania King (Getty)</div></div> <p>"It's two matches in, and usually you want to be able to play seven matches. It's not even close to the halfway point.</p> <p>"I definitely want to keep it as good as it can be."</p> <p>Elsewhere, Serena's sister Venus also progressed, along with fourth seed Agnieszka Radwanska and fifth seed Simona Halep.</p> <p><em>PA</em></p> <meta itemprop="datePublished" content="2016-09-02T11:43:39+01:00"/> <ul class="inline-pipes-list"> <li> More about: </li> <li><a itemprop="keywords" href="/web/20160903213314/http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/SerenaWilliams">Serena Williams</a></li> <li><a itemprop="keywords" href="/web/20160903213314/http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/USOpen-Tennis">US Open- Tennis</a></li> </ul> <div id="gigya-share-btns-2"></div> <a href="/web/20160903213314/http://www.independent.co.uk/syndication/reuse-permision-form" target="_blank" class="syndication-btn"><img src="/web/20160903213314im_/http://www.independent.co.uk/sites/all/themes/ines_themes/independent_theme/img/reuse.png" width="25">Reuse content</a> </div> <div class="box-comments"> 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