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 | Federer and Del Potro with clean victories17-01-2013 |
Seeded two in the men's scheme of the Australian Open tennis Roger Federer qualified for the third round after winning with 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 over the Russian Nikolay Davydenko.
The sixth Juan Martin Del Potro from Argentina also won easily his meeting of the second round after 6-2, 6-4, 6-2 and went to the next phase of the first Grand Slam of 2013.
The next rival of Federer in Melbourne will be the representative of the hosts Bernard Tomic and the giant Del Potro will compete with the Frenchman Jeremy Chardy.
Results from the second round of the Australian Open in men:
9 Richard Gasquet (France) - Alejandro Falla (Colombia) 6-3, 6-2, 6-2
2-Roger Federer (Switzerland) - Nikolay Davydenko (Russia) 6-3, 6-4, 6-4
Ivan Dodig (Croatia) - Jarkko Nieminen (FIN) 6-3, 6-7 (3), 6-3, 6-7 (4), 6-1
6 Juan Martin del Potro (Argentina) - Benjamin Becker (Germany) 6-2, 6-4, 6-2
Gael Monfils (France) beat Lu Yen-Hsun (Taiwan) 7-6 (5), 4-6, 0-6, 6-1, 8-6
14 Gilles Simon (France) - Jesse Levine (Canada) 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (4), 6-2
Jeremy Chardy (France) - 30 Marcel Granollers (Spain) 6-3, 3-6, 6-1, 6-2
12-Marin Cilic (Croatia) - Rajeev Ram (USA) 7-5, 6-2, 6-4
Blaz Kavchich (Slovenia) - James Duckworth (Australia) 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-7 (3), 10-8
Bernard Tomic (Australia) - Daniel Brands (Germany) 6-7 (4), 7-5, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (8)
21 Andreas Seppi (Italy) - Denis Istomin (Uzbekistan) 7-6 (4), 5-7, 6-7 (3), 7-6 (3), 6-2
3-Andy Murray (Britain) - Joao Sousa (Portugal) 6-2, 6-2, 6-4
13 Raonich Milos (Canada) - Lucas Rosso (Czech Republic) 7-6 (2), 6-2, 6-3
7 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (France) - Go Soeda (Japan) 6-3, 7-6 (1), 6-3
17 Philipp Kohlschreiber (Germany) - Amir Weintraub (Israel) 6-2, 7-6 (4), 6-4
Rikardas Berankis (Lithuania) - 25-Florian Mayer (Germany) 6-2, 6-3, 6-1