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Federer, Roddick, Kuznetsova reach French Open fourth round
PARIS: World number one Roger Federer, Andy Roddick and Svetlana Kuznetsova reached fourth round in the French Open Tennis tournament here on Saturday.In the third round of the tournament, Roger Federer needed four sets to reach the last 16 as he came through against home favourite Paul-Henri Mathieu 4-6, 6-1, 6-4, 6-4. Andy Roddick and German veteran Tommy Haas also made it through, both against French opponents, while top South American hope Juan Martin del Potro scored a comfortable 6-4, 7-5, 6-4 win over Igor Andreev of Russia.Germany's Philipp Kohlschreiber shocked Novak Djokovic beating him 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 to stage an upset in the tournament.Kohlschreiber will play Tommy Robredo for a place in the quarter-finals after the Spaniard's 4-6, 7-5, 6-1, 6-0 over Maximo Gonzalez of Argentina In women’s event, seventh seed Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia beat Melinda Czink of Hungary 6-1, 6-3 while Samantha Stosur of Austria made a great upset by defeating Elena Dementieva of Russia 6-3, 4-6, 6-1.

Sharapova into quarterfinals of French Open
PARIS: Maria Sharapova sailed into quarterfinals of French open after defeating Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan by 1-6 6-3 6-4. Former world number one Sharapova, a semi-finalist in 2007, has won all three of her matches this week in three sets and goes on to play 25th seed Li Na, a 7-5 6-1 victory over Olga Govortsova. Third seed Venus Williams became the first big name to exit the French Open with a 6-0 6-4 defeat by Agnes Szavay.Williams, a seven-time Grand Slam winner, has now fallen at the third round in each of the last three years. Szavay, the 29th seed from Hungary, stormed through the first set and then edged out Williams in the second to set up a meeting with Dominika Cibulkova. Top seed Dinara Safina beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-2 6-0 and Ana Ivanovic overcame Iveta Benesova 6-0 6-2. Bad light suspended play on Court 1 of the match between Belarusian Azarenka and Navarro of Spain with the score at 5-7 7-5.



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