ranked Rafael Nadal, the man he usurped as world number one, Roger Federer, and pretender Andy Murray all marched into the last 16 at the Paris Masters on Wednesday with straight sets wins. Nadal swept past unseeded Frenchman Florent Serra 6-2, 6-4. Federer looked rustier in winning 6-4, 7-6 (9-7) against Swede Robin Soderling while Murray was little troubled by US hope Sam Querrey as he steamed through 6-2, 6-4 to book a meeting with Spaniard 15th seed Fernando Verdasco. Also advancing was US 11th seed James Blake who beat Italian Simone Bolelli 6-7 (8-10), 6-3, 6-4. Another winner was Argentine David Nalbandian, who beat German Nicolas Kiefer 7-6 (7-5), 6-3 to secure a third meeting in less than a month with Juan Martin del Potro. Next up for Nadal is Frenchman Gael Monfils. Elsewhere, French tenth seed Gilles Simon moved on to a meeting with US world number six Andy Roddick by coming back from 0-4 down in the second set to see off Russian Igor Andreev 6-3, 7-5. Russian sixth seed and 2006 champion Nikolay Davydenko ousted 2005 runner-up Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia 7-6 (7-5), 7-5 and next plays 2005 champion Tomas Berdych. Petrova in 2nd round Top-seeded Nadia Petrova breezed past Maria Mokh 6-1, 6-2 on Tuesday in the Bell Challenge. Petrova will face Varvara Lepchenko who beat Rossana De Los Rios 6-1, 6-3. Tamarine Tanasugarn of Thailand fell to Frenchwoman Severine Bremond 6-2, 7-6. Bremond will face the winner of the Angela Haynes-Stephanie Dubois match. Aleksandra Wozniak beat Edina Gallovits 6-4, 6-3 and will next play Carly Gullickson, who beat Romania's Ioana Raluca Olaru 7-6, 6-1. In other first-round matches: No. 7 Olga Govortsova beat Vania King 6-1, 2-6, 6-4, Galina Voskoboeva upset No. 8 Sofia Arvidsson 6-3 6-2; Melinda Czink defeated No. 9 Sabine Lisicki of Germany 6-2, 5-7, 6-3; and Nathalie Dechy dumped Anna-Lena Groenefeld 6-3, 6-1.
