Federer marches on

PARIS (Agencies) - Playing an opponent who had never lost a match at the French Open, Roger Federer made it look easy Wednesday by winning 13 straight games from the first set to the third. The 2009 champion at Roland Garros, despite being broken early in the match, beat French wild card Maxime Teixeira 6-3, 6-0, 6-2 to reach the third round. Teixera is now 1-1 at the French Open after winning his first tour-level match on Sunday. He fought hard, and afterwards he was trying to get the best score, Federer said of his 22-year-old opponent. The score was balanced for 1 1/2 sets, but even then he fought hard. Top-ranked Caroline Wozniacki and 2010 French Open finalist Sam Stosur also advanced to the third round. On the mens side, No. 7 David Ferrer of Spain, No. 9 Gael Monfils of France and former U.S. Open champion Juan Martin del Potro made it through. Federer didnt face a single break point in his opening match, and Teixeira managed only one on Wednesdayand he converted it. But then after the Frenchman held to go to 3-3, Federer dominated and didnt lose another game until the Teixeira made it 4-1 in the third set. Teixeira had beaten another French wild card, Vincent Millot, in the first round. Federer will next face 29th-seeded Janko Tipsarevic, who beat Pere Riba of Spain 6-1, 6-3, 6-0. Tipsarevic took Federer to five sets in the third round of the 2008 Australian Open, eventually losing 10-8. lets be careful, Federer said. Lets be ready in advance, because he can vary his game on hard courts, on clay as well. He can do all sorts of things. Del Potro, who beat Federer in the 2009 U.S. Open final, defeated Blaz Kavcic of Slovenia 6-3, 6-2, 6-4. The 25th-seeded Argentine could face Djokovic in the third round. Ferrer advanced by beating Julien Benneteau 6-3, 6-4, 6-2. The Spaniard has twice reached the quarterfinals at Roland Garros, in 2005 and 08. No. 31 Sergiy Stakhovsky of Ukraine also made it through. Wozniacki beat Aleksandra Wozniak of Canada 6-3, 7-6 (6). The Dane trailed 6-3 in the tiebreaker but won the final five points, saving three set points to reach the third round. Wozniacki, who won despite hitting nine fewer winners than her opponent, again played with a bandage on her left thigh. Stosur, who lost to Schiavone in last years final at Roland Garros, advanced to the third round by beating Simona Halep 6-0, 6-2. The eighth-seeded Stosur had 21 winners and broke her opponent six times before she served out the match at love. No. 10 Jelena Jankovic of Serbia, No. 13 Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia, No. 14 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia, No. 17 Julia Goerges of Germany, No. 28 Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia and No. 29 Peng Shuai of China also won, while Gisela Dulko of Argentina eliminated No. 32 Tsvetana Pironkova of Bulgaria.

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