Day 4 of the 2013 French Open saw several of the heavy favorites advance in both the men's and women's tournaments in Paris, France, as well as one shocking upset.
Roger Federer rolled on into the next round with a three-set dispatching of India's Somdev Devvarman in 6-2, 6-1, 6-1. With his win, Federer, who has a men's record of 254 Grand Slam singles wins under his belt, moves up to third all time on the men's Open-Era list with a staggering 56 wins at the French Open. In the third round, Federer, who won the French Open in 2009, will face off with Julien Benneteau of France, who upset Federer in Rotterdam earlier in the season.
"I'm happy that I was playing offensive and aggressive tennis in the first two matches, because I had the opportunity, but I didn't back off and start to play passive tennis and wait for mistakes. So I took it to my opponent," said Federer. "But really, I think I'll only know more after the Benneteau match, to be quite honest."
In a near-upset, No. 30 Benneteau survived a five-set challenge from Tobias Kamke, Benneteau winning 7-6 (11-9), 7-5, 5-7, 0-6, 6-4.
No.4-seeded David Ferrer advanced by taking down Albert Montanes 6-2, 6-1, 6-3 in his second round match-up. Ferrer was impressive through the day's match, forcing five errors and netting eight breaks en route to victory. In other tournament action on the men's side, No.10-seeded Marin Cilic beat Nick Kyrgios 6-4, 6-2, 6-2, and No.6 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga bested Jarkko Nieminen 7-6 (8-6), 6-4, 6-3 .
Meanwhile, in women's action, No.1-seeded Serena Williams moved on to the third round when she took out wild card Caroline Garcia in straight sets, 6-1, 6-2. Yet, in a bracket-busting moment of the tourney, No.10-ranked Caroline Wozniacki was ousted early in the tournament on Wednesday, with Bojana Jovanovski scoring the shocking upset, 7-6 (2), 6-3 to advance to the third round. Wozniacki, who was a runner up in the 2009 U.S. Open, has not done well at the French Open, her best finish coming in 2010 when she reached the quarterfinals at Roland Garros.
However, Victoria Azarenka did not falter on her opening match, easily beating Russia's Elena Vesnina 6-1, 6-4; the match was postponed Tuesday thanks to rain.
Italy's Sara Errani, the No.5 seed at the women's French Open, dominated on the court Wednesday, handily vanquishing Yulia Putintseva of Russia in straight sets, 6-1, 6-1.
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