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Federer, Djokovic reach third round

Associated Press

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Roger Federer and Marat Safin rolled to easy victories Wednesday against first-time opponents to reach the Australian Open's third round, where the familiarity factor will be much higher: They'll be playing each other. "I'm happy to be playing Marat; we have fought some battles," Federer said after ousting error-prone Evgeny Korolev of Russia 6-2, 6-3, 6-1 in just 86 minutes. "We had the epic in 2005." That was a semifinal thriller here that Safin won in a 9-7 fifth se ...

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