Reigning women's champion Serena Williams has insisted that there was no better place to win her 600th career match than the Centre Court at Wimbledon.

Williams beat Japan's Kimiko Date-Krumm in straight sets on Saturday night, a result that proved to her that she has started to get grips with the grass-court season.

"What better place to win 600 matches than on Centre Court?" Williams told BBC Sport.

"I don't think it gets better for me than a closed court on grass I'm finally starting to feel a little better after such a long clay-court season.

"I'm getting there but I'm just really happy I was able to make it to the second week."

Williams will face Sabine Lisicki in the next round on Monday.