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Venus Williams made to toil by prickly Camille Pin

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Wed Jan 16, 2008 9:05pm EST

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Venus Williams was forced to come from behind in both sets before beating Frenchwoman Camille Pin 7-5 6-4 in the Australian Open second round on Thursday.

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Pin served for the first set at 5-4 but the American eighth seed reeled off three games in a row to clinch it in 47 minutes. Pin, who took Maria Sharapova to three sets in the first round at Melbourne Park last year, broke Williams in the opening game of the second set and led the Wimbledon champion 4-2.

But again Williams dug deep and rattled off four successive games to clinch victory in one hour 33 minutes and set up a third-round match against Indian Sania Mirza or Swiss Timea Bacsinszky.

(Reporting by Ed Osmond; Editing by Ossian Shine)
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