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Fourth seed Svetlana Kuznetsova wastes little time in reaching the last 16 with a straight-sets win over Nadia Petrova

Kuznetsova goes on to face 18-year-old Belarussian Victoria Azarenka, who thrashed Francesca Schiavone

Dinara Safina gives further evidence of why many see her as an outsider for the title as she beats Jie Zheng 6-2 7-5

Fifth seed David Ferrer takes on Australia's Lleyton Hewitt on Court Suzanne Lenglen

Jelena Jankovic has to resume at 7-5 4-2 against Dominika Cubulkova after darkness stopped play on Friday, but the third seed quickly finishes the job on Saturday

Maria Sharapova battles her way through a tough first set against Karin Knapp before running out a 7-6 (7-4) 6-0 winner

Hewitt, playing his first tournament on clay this season, loses the first set to Ferrer but takes the second and third

But Hewitt, a 2001 and 2004 quarter-finalist, cannot contain the Spaniard, who makes the last 16 with a 6-2 3-6 3-6 6-3 6-4 triumph

The Court Phillipe Chatrier crowd warms up for Roger Federer's clash with Mario Ancic by watching Gael Monfils take on Jurgen Melzer

Frenchman Monfils finds consistency hard to come by at first but digs in to win 4-6 7-5 4-6 6-0 6-2 and will now meet Ivan Ljubicic

All goes to plan for fourth seed Nikolay Davydenko early on as he takes the first two sets against Croatia's Ljubicic

As Ljubicic finds his touch, Davydenko's game begins to fall apart and some tennis of the very highest calibre earns the 28th seed a 4-6 2-6 6-3 6-2 6-4 victory

Last but not least on Court Phillipe Chatrier, world number one Federer takes on Ancic

Ancic famously beat Federer at Wimbledon in 2002 but there was no sign of a repeat in Paris as Federer stormed towards the last 16

Federer wraps up a hugely impressive 6-3 6-4 6-2 win and looks in the form to challenge for the title again