Google News: Nadal, Roddick make light work of Australian Open rivals

Rafael Nadal and Andy Roddick powered into the third round of the Australian Open with straight set victories on Wednesday on their way to a potential quarter-final showdown.Second seed Nadal crushed 88th-ranked Frenchman Florent Serra, 6-0, 6-2, 6-2 in just an hour and 34 minutes.

Roddick needed five match points and a bit more time to wear down the 54th-ranked German Michael Berrer 6-2, 6-2, 6-4 in one hour 58 minutes.

The big-serving American, a three semi-finalist here, will have a third round match against another German, Philipp Kohlschreiber, and is on track to meet Nadal in a blockbuster quarter-final.

Elsewhere, Russian fourth seed Nikolay Davydenko, who is at the centre of an investigation into a betting scandal following his defeat by Argentine Martin Vassallo Arguello in Poland last August, eased past Frenchman Nicolas Mahut 6-4, 6-0, 6-3.

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