Wozniacki crashes,Federer cruises

Top-ranked Caroline Wozniacki will have to wait longer for her first major title after losing to Daniela Hantuchova.

Top-ranked Caroline Wozniacki will have to wait longer for her first major title after losing to Daniela Hantuchova 6-1,6-3 Friday in the third round of the French Open.

Following No. 2 Kim Clijsters8217; loss on Thursday,it is the first time in the Open era that the top two seeded women failed to make the round of 16 at a Grand Slam tournament. Sam Stosur,last year8217;s runner-up,was also eliminated,but 2010 champion Francesca Schiavone advanced to the fourth round. On the men8217;s side,16-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer had 10 aces and only 20 unforced errors in a 6-1,6-4,6-3 win over No. 29 Janko Tipsarevic.

Federer,who won the French Open two years ago to complete a career Grand Slam,again had his serve working,landing 67 per cent of his first serves and winning 84 per cent of those points. Seventh-seeded David Ferrer also won,beating No. 31 Sergiy Stakhovsky of Ukraine 6-1,6-1,6-3. No. 9 Gael Monfils of France also advanced,while Albert Montanes of Spain defeated No. 12 Mikhail Youzhny of Russia 6-1,7-6 0,6-1 and Fabio Fognini of Italy beat No. 30 Guillermo Garcia-Lopez of Spain 4-6,6-3,6-3,6-1.

Local favourite Richard Gasquet beat Brazilian Thomaz Bellucci 6-2,6-3,3-6,6-3 while Stanislas Wawrinka came back from two sets down to beat Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 4-6,6-7 3,7-6 5,6-2,6-3. Stosur was knocked out by Gisela Dulko of Argentina 6-4,1-6,6-3. The eighth-seeded Australian struggled early but easily won the second set to take back control. Schiavone was broken at the beginning of her match,but then won five straight games to take the first set and eventually the match when opponent Peng Shuai of China retired while trailing 6-3,1-2.

Svetlana Kuznetsova,the 2009 French Open champion,advanced by beating Rebecca Marino of Canada 6-0,6-4. No. 10 Jelena Jankovic reached the fourth round with a 6-2,6-2 win over Bethanie Mattek-Sands of the United States,while No. 11 Marion Bartoli of France,a former Wimbledon finalist,defeated No. 17 Julia Goerges of Germany 3-6,6-2,6-4.

Sania-Vesnina in 3rd round

India8217;s Rohan Bopanna and Pakistan8217;s Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi fought their way to the third round after defeating Argentine Maximo Gonzalez and Kei Nishikori of Japan 6-7 4,6-3,6-4 in two-hour and 17 minutes. The fifth seeded Indo-Pak pair will next be up against Andrey Golubev of Kazakisthan and Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan in the next round.

However,Bopanna lost in the first round partnering Sania Mirza in the mixed doubles,going down 6-7 4,6-7 2 to Chia-Jung Chuang of Chinese Taipei and Marcin Matkowski of Poland. In women8217;s doubles,Sania combined with Russian Elena Vesnina to beat German-Swede combo of Kristina Barrois/Johanna Larsson 7-6 4,6-3 in the second round.