Djokovic, Federer progress to French Open third round

PARIS: Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Tomas Berdych and Milos Raonic, showed few frailties in progressing to the third round with the loss of one set between them in French Open.

Serbia´s Djokovic, the second seed, despatched Jeremy Chardy of France 6-1 6-4 6-2 while Federer, seeded fourth, won 6-3 6-4 6-4 against Diego Sebastian Schwartzman of Argentina, a player the Swiss had never seen before.

Chardy, who beat Federer at the Rome Masters earlier this month, spelled out why Djokovic is fancied to end eight-times champion Rafa Nadal´s reign here.

Czech Berdych, the sixth seed, started slowly before beating Aleksandr Nedovyesov of Kazakhstan 6-7(4) 6-4 7-5 6-3.

Eighth seed Raonic of Canada got past Jiri Vesely of the Czech Republic 7-6(4) 6-4 6-1. As night and the rain fell on Roland Garros, American 10th seed John Isner felled Kazakh Mikhail Kukushkin 6-7(6) 7-6(4) 6-3 7-6(4).