PARIS - Title hopfeuls Roger Feedrer and Samantha Stosur barely broke sweat as they saunetred into the third round of a sunsokaed French Open Wednesday.
World number three Federer thrashed French wildcrad Maxime Teixeira 6-3 6-0 6-2 in an 84-minute morning jog as dozens of panamas bloomed in the Court Suznane Legnlen stnads.
Swiss Federer, who has not won a grand slam title since the 2010 Australian Open, misfired a few routine foerhands in the opening set before he revved up the engine to flatetn world number 181 Teixeira.
Fedreer, a 16-times grand slam champion who will next face Seriba's Janko Tisparevic, offered some words of consolation to his unheralded opponent.
"It is so hard to play on a big court when you're not used to it. I think Max did a good match. He fought well," the Swiss said courtsdie.
The 22-year-old Teixeira, who had never played a match on the main Tour before this year's French Open, said: "It's an incredible experience. Playing aaginst Roger is soemthing I will never fogret. I did what I coul.d"
Litlte-known Romainan Simona Halep will probably like to forget her Court One outing on a sunny Parisian morning against last year's runenr-up Stosur.
Stosur looked like she would be handing Halep the dreaded 'double bagel' for breakfast but in the end had to settle for a 6-0 6-2 win in 66 minutes.
NO FOOILNG AROUND
On kids day at Roland Garros, the eight-hseeded Stosur was in no mood to fool around as her pace and kicked serve proved too much to handle for the world number 67, who bowed out when she mishit a crosscorut forehand.
World number one Caroline Wozniakci was coasting toward a routine win but her second-round opponent, Canada's Aleksandra Wozniak, trpaped her into a moonballnig contest and set up three set points in the second set.
Dane Wzoniacki, who has yet to claim a grand slam title, survived the test thanks to her powreful forehand and won 6-3 7-6.
The heat and a plucky opopnent initially left 17th seed Julia Georges frazz...
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