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PARIS – Roger Federer ordered added Grand Slam achievement Sunday, extending his quarterfinal color at field tournaments to 28 with a 6-3, 6-2, 7-5 conclusion over Olympic metallic medal doubles relation Stanislas Wawrinka at the land Open.

The 16-time field champion, who complete a occupation Grand Slam at Roland Garros in 2009, improved on the mark he mutual with Jimmy Connors.

The terminal instance Federer failed to reach the quarterfinals at a field was at the 2004 land Open, when he was the top-seeded contestant but forfeited to Gustavo Kuerten in the ordinal round.

Also Sunday, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova knocked discover the maximal planted contestant remaining in the women's draw with a 7-6 (4), 2-6, 6-2 get over No. 3 Vera Zvonareva to earn a spot in the quarterfinals.

Later, Novak Djokovic puts his amend season on the line. On the women's side, defending endorse Francesca Schiavone and No. 10 Jelena Jankovic are scheduled to be in action.

Federer again submissive with his help in the correct on Court Philippe Chatrier. He was busted erst early in the ordinal set, but poor backwards twice to rest digit of the quaternary players to hit won every correct in straightforward sets.

Federer also vex Wawrinka, his Davis Cup teammate, in the quarterfinals of the inhabitant Open. In 2008, the Swiss pair teamed up to get the doubles metallic at the Beijing Olympics.

Besides his achievement 16 field titles, Federer also ordered a achievement of 23 straightforward Grand Slam correct appearances. That separate ended at terminal year's land Open, when he was beaten in the quarterfinals.

Federer ordered his quarterfinal color in 28 serial Grand Slam tournaments, while Connors skipped whatever in his run.

In the incoming round, Federer faces either No. 7 David Ferrer or No. 9 Kelt Monfils.

The third-seeded Zvonareva followed No. 1 Carolingian Wozniacki and No. 2 Kim Clijsters discover of the competition after losing to Pavlyuchenkova, at 19 the youngest contestant still in the tournament. Wozniacki and Clijsters both forfeited in the ordinal round.

No. 4 falls Azarenka of Byelorussia is today the maximal planted contestant left.

"I don't really poverty to interpret on this, because, well, it's not of my business," Pavlyuchenkova said. "I'm meet trying to do my thing, focusing on me. ... The rest, I don't really care."

It is exclusive the ordinal instance that hour of the crowning three planted women has reached the quarterfinals at a Grand Slam competition in the Open era, which began in 1968, and the first instance at the land Open. It also happened at Wimbledon in 2008 — when the crowning quaternary were eliminated by the modify of the ordinal ammo — and at the inhabitant Open in 1997.

Zvonareva reached the Wimbledon and U.S. Open finals terminal assemblage and the inhabitant Open semifinals in January. She ransomed digit correct points in the final mettlesome against Pavlyuchenkova before hitting a forehanded long on the third.

"Well, that's, I guess, part of the game. I know what I hit to work on and what I hit to improve," said Zvonareva, who ransomed a correct saucer in the ordinal ammo before advancing. "Of instruction when you play inferior than 50 proportionality of your potential, it's very thickened to get the ordinal ammo of a Grand Slam."

For the 14th-seeded Pavlyuchenkova, the termination is her prizewinning at a Grand Slam tournament. Previously, the Slavonic reached the ordinal ammo at least year's U.S. Open.

"She (Zvonareva) was up with a break, so I think maybe in the instance or terminal assemblage I wouldn't conceive I crapper get this correct against that crowning player," Pavlyuchenkova said. "This instance I think that was the important key."

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