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The 36-year-old American barely broke the sweat in a unilateral first set but was tested by the world number 135 in the second without ever looking troubled.
While the Central Court crowd clearly appreciated Williams' sight in full swing, they shone in favor of the brave Tomova, who fought to match her.
Even the last Williams warrior applauded some of his opponent's winners late in the second set before ending the victory in 66 minutes.
The 25th seeded player will face the winner of the match that followed at the Center Court between German Tatjana Maria and French Kristina Mladenovic.
"It was better than my first round and I'm happy to go in the right direction," said Williams, who brought his winning streak to Wimbledon to 16 games.
Meanwhile, two days after making a splash at Wimbledon with his new mega-bucks deal, Roger Federer was back with his dazzling tennis in giving 6-4 6-4 6-1 to Lukas Lacko down to reach the third round. The Swiss champion was at his best breath-taking because he created 48 exquisite winners over a 90-minute match that seemed more of an exhibition of his shot than a charge towards a ninth record. Wimbledon title.
When Federer came forward to defend his crown in 2013, he suffered a second-round shock humiliating by Sergiy Stakhovsky.
There was no danger of reoffending against Slovak Lacko, and a forehand on the match gave the seeded 26th consecutive set at the Grbadcourt Championship.
Federer will face German Jan-Lennard Struff for a spot in the fourth round.
Madison Keys finds great men who accumulate points by defeating an ace after another boring one, admitted the American yesterday. Keys, tenth seed, who reached the third round with a 6-4 win over 6-3 against Luksika Kumkhum of Thailand, is one of the biggest servers on the women's circuit.
His compatriots Sam Querrey and John Isner are among the greatest servers in the men's game, but Keys was not too complacent about their ability to beat their opponents.
"I'm going to be totally honest with you, I find it a bit boring," the 23-year-old told reporters.
"Sorry, but just because it seems like they're just hitting like 312 ace game."
Isner holds the recognized record of ATP for the fastest service at 157.2 miles per hour (253 km / *), set at Davis Cup Match in 2016.
The Canadian Milos Raonic, Wimbledon finalist two years ago and the fastest of which was 250 km / * in 2012, recorded 147 in his 7-6 (4) 7-6 (4) 7-6 (4) win Australian John Millman yesterday.
Keys said the main adjustment that she needs to do while playing on the grbad is to receive the ball lower than on other surfaces.
"I think the most important thing is that the bounce of the ball is completely different," she said.
"You start from the clay where it usually bounces higher, and suddenly the ball does not rise at all and you have to be much lower."
"This makes my legs much more painful. And I usually have my trainer in my ear who tells me to go down a lot more or less after each ball.
"It's pretty much the only difference for me, though … I feel good about it.I mean, I always do well on the grbad, so I'm not sure. have the impression of having managed to understand. "- Reuters
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