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Top-ranked Federer, Mauresmo advance while Henman falls:Posted By: Jim Thatcher MIAMI (AFP) - World number ones Roger Federer and Amelie Mauresmo advanced with ease here at a 6.9 million-dollar WTA and ATP hardcourt tournament while Britain's Tim Henman suffered a most baffling loss.Swiss star Federer crushed Germany's Tommy Haas 6-1, 6-3 in a third-round match while France's Mauresmo, who like Federer won an Australian Open title in January, eliminated Serbian Ana Ivanovic 7-5, 6-2 to reach the quarter-finals. "I just played a real solid match. I started off really well, didn't miss much," Federer said. "I didn't give him much chance to get in the match, didn't give him too many balls to hit." Britain's Tim Henman fell to German qualifier Simon Greul 0-6, 6-1, 7-5 in their third round match. Henman dominated the first set but was overpowered in the second and sent packing in the third. "No doubt the most bizarre I've ever played," said Henman. "I'm just shocked to play the first set as I did and him to play that badly. His level had gone from non-existent to playing some pretty good stuff in the space of a game. "It certainly doesn't sit well with me." Haas pushed Federer to a fifth set during the Swiss star's Melbourne title run but was overpowered by Federer, who has a fourth-round match Tuesday with Russian Dmitry Tursunov, who beat compatriot Igor Andreev 6-3, 1-6, 6-4. Federer fired 30 winners against 18 unforced errors to beat Haas for the fifth time in a row, capturing a record 20th consecutive ATP Masters Series triumph. Fourth-seeded American Andy Roddick moved on to the round of 16 with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Spain's Fernando Verdasco. Roddick will face Greul, who was a break down in the third set before dispatching Henman. "At the beginning I was a little bit nervous. Didn't play that good," said Greul, who won just five points in the first set. "But then in the second set I got in the game, played some good balls and got a little bit confident." Henman had eliminated Russian star Marat Safin and Australian Lleyton Hewitt. "The work that I did to get through those two matches, to lose this is pretty tough to swallow," Henman said. American James Blake defeated Finland's Jarkko Nieminen 6-3, 4-6, 6-1, to book a date with Argentina's Juan Ignacio Chela, who ousted Belgian Kristof Vliegen 6-3, 7-6 (7/3). Mauresmo will next face Russian fifth seed Nadia Petrova, who eliminated Greek qualifier Eleni Daniilidou 6-2, 6-0. Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova advanced in a walkover when Swiss seventh seed Patty Schnyder dropped out with a right ankle injury. The 2004 US Open champion will next face Japan's Ai Sugiyama, who ousted Swede Sofia Arvidsson 6-7 (4/7), 6-3, 6-2. Fourth seed Maria Sharapova beat Russian compatriot Maria Kirilenko 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 and will face another Russian, Anastasia Myskina, who ousted Russian Anna Chakvetadze 6-3, 6-2. China's Zheng Jie eliminated American Jill Craybas, 2-6, 6-2, 6-3, to book a quarter-final date with France's Tatiana Golovin, who ripped Russian sixth seed Elena Dementieva 6-2, 6-1. Courtesy Of: Yahoo! News The information reported above is property of Yahoo! inc. and reprinted or modified with legitimate permission. We thank Yahoo! inc. for the kind cooperation with us and other shareholders. |
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