French Open Seeds Fared

How the seeded players fared Friday at the French Open (seedings in parentheses):

Men

Second Round

Novak Djokovic (4), Serbia, def. Sergiy Stakhovsky, Ukraine, 6-3, 6-4, 6-1.

Philipp Kohlschreiber (29), Germany, def. Juan Carlos Ferrero, Spain, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4, 6-7 (3), 6-3.

Third Round

Rafael Nadal (1), Spain, def. Lleyton Hewitt, Australia, 6-1, 6-3, 6-1.

Andy Murray (3), Britain, def. Janko Tipsarevic, Serbia, 7-6 (3), 6-3, retired.

Victor Hanescu (30), Romania, def. Gilles Simon (7), France, 6-4, 6-4, 6-2.

Fernando Verdasco (8), Spain, def. Nicolas Almagro (31), Spain, 6-2, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (8).

Nikolay Davydenko (10), Russia, def. Stanislas Wawrinka (17), Switzerland, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2.

Fernando Gonzalez (12), Chile, def. Josselin Ouanna, France, 7-5, 6-3, 7-5.

Marin Cilic (13), Croatia, def. Radek Stepanek (18), Czech Republic, 6-1, 7-6 (4), 6-3.

Robin Soderling (23), Sweden, def. David Ferrer (14), Spain, 6-7 (5), 7-5, 6-2, 7-6 (5).

Women

Third Round

Dinara Safina (1), Russia, def. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (27), Russia, 6-2, 6-0.

Agnes Szavay (29), Hungary, def. Venus Williams (3), United States, 6-0, 6-4.

Ana Ivanovic (8), Serbia, def. Iveta Benesova (32), Czech Republic, 6-0, 6-2.

Dominika Cibulkova (20), Slovakia, def. Gisela Dulko, Argentina, 6-4, 6-2.

Li Na (25), China, def. Olga Govortsova, Belarus, 7-5, 6-1.