Federer, Nadal, Roddick move into Rogers Masters quarters

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08/10/2007 - Montreal, QC (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Top-seeded and defending champion Roger Federer, second-seeded former winner Rafael Nadal and American Andy Roddick were among Thursday's third-round winners at the $2.45 million Rogers Masters -- the sixth of nine Masters Series events this year.

The world No. 1 Federer dispatched helpless Italian qualifier Fabio Fognini 6-1, 6-1 in a mere 45 minutes on Day 5. The super Swiss has now won his last 14 matches in Canada.

The reigning Wimbledon, U.S. Open and Australian Open champion Federer defeated France's Richard Gasquet in last year's Rogers Masters finale in Toronto. This event alternates between Montreal and Toronto each year.

Federer also captured this event in Toronto in 2004.

Nadal had to come from behind in order to beat talented Frenchman Paul-Henri Mathieu 3-6, 6-3, 6-2. The reigning three-time French Open champion Nadal was the Montreal titlist in 2005.

For the better part of two sets, Mathieu was the better player against Nadal on Thursday, but the powerful Spaniard turned things around in the second stanza and then dominated the third to advance in 2 hours, 42 minutes.

The fifth-seeded Roddick, who notched the 400th match win of his ATP career, whipped Marcos Baghdatis 6-2, 6-3 in just over an hour.

Last year's U.S. Open runner-up Roddick, fresh off his title last week in Washington, DC, titled here in Montreal in 2003 and was the 2002 and 2004 runner-up in Toronto.

Roddick currently leads in the standings for the U.S. Open Series, which links 10 summer events to the U.S. Open, creating a cohesive, six-week summer tennis season for the ATP and WTA Tour's professional tournaments in North America. It runs for six weeks and culminates with the U.S. Open.

Third-seeded Serbian Novak Djokovic and fourth-seeded Russian Nikolay Davydenko joined the parade into the quarterfinals, as Djokovic dumped 2003 Montreal runner-up David Nalbandian of Argentina 6-2, 6-3, while Davydenko held off his 14th-seeded fellow Russian Mikhail Youzhny 7-6 (10-8), 6-3 at Uniprix Stadium.

An upset came when dangerous Czech Radek Stepanek took out 12th-seeded German Tommy Haas 6-3, 2-6, 6-2. Stepanek, who captured a U.S. Open Series event in Los Angeles three weeks ago, will meet Davydenko here on Friday.

Australian Lleyton Hewitt also advanced after he defeated Slovakian Dominik Hrbaty 6-7 (10-12), 7-6 (8-6), 7-5 while Canadian Frank Dancevic downed Spaniard Fernando Verdasco 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 to move on.

Federer will match up against Hewitt, while Nadal takes on Dancevic on Friday. Roddick will play Djokovic.

The 2007 Rogers Masters titlist will collect $400,000.

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