PARIS, May 30: Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic gave themselves more work than anticipated in moving into the third round of the French Open on Wednesday.

Former champion Federer set a record with his 234th Grand Slam match win but only after wasting two matchpoints in a third-set tiebreak and having to play a fourth set to beat Romanian Adrian Ungur.

The third-seeded Federer eventually won 6-3, 6-2, 6-7, 6-3 on a sunny Philippe Chatrier court to pass Jimmy Connors’s professional-era record, having equalled it in the first round here.

World No 1 Djokovic, aiming to become the first man in 43 years to hold all four grand-slam titles at the same time, rattled off the first seven games before faltering against Slovenian Blaz Kavcic. He won 6-0, 6-4, 6-4.

In the third round, Djokovic will play French qualifier Nicolas Devilder while Federer will meet either Slovakian Martin Klizan or Frenchman Nicolas Mahut.

Women’s world No 1 Victoria Azarenka redeemed herself after narrowly avoiding first-round defeat when she easily beat German qualifier Dinah Pfizenmaier 6-1, 6-1 in her second match.

Eighth seeded Frenchwoman Marion Bartoli, a semi-finalist last year, hit 14 double faults on the way to a defeat by Croatian world No 50 Petra Martic.

The 21-year-old Martic reached the third round of a Grand-Slam for the first time with her fighting 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 victory.

Ana Ivanovic, the 2008 French champion  defeated Israeli Shahar Peer 6-2, 6-2.

US Open champion Samantha Stosur raced to a 5-0 lead before beating American world No 112 Irina Falconi 6-1, 6-4.

Argentine men’s ninth seed Juan Martin del Potro also reached the third round with a 6-7, 7-6, 6-4 victory over Frenchman Edouard Roger-Vasselin.

The French fans were delighted to see Gilles Simon win through 6-4, 6-1, 6-7, 1-6, 6-0 after a tough match with American wildcard Brian Baker.

Former champion Serena Williams shocked the French Open crowd on Tuesday, and herself, by losing to Virginie Razzano in the first round, her earliest exit from a Grand Slam in the 47 appearances she has made in an outstanding career.

Razzano was two points from defeat in the second-set tiebreak but battled back to knock out the fifth-seeded American 4-6, 6-7, 6-3 in two minutes over three hours.

Williams had been the pre-tournament favourite and her shock exit overshadowed Tuesday’s other events, with men’s fourth seed Andy Murray among those winning easily.

Williams, last up on the Philippe Chatrier showcourt at the end of another summery day, was supposed to swiftly dispatch local heroine Razzano and complete the second-round line-up.

Razzano, though, had other ideas. She woke up the drowsy fans with her battling play and, by the time she got to her eighth matchpoint in a 25-minute final game, the crowd were in a frenzy.

Results (prefix number denotes seeding): Men’s singles: Second round: 11-Gilles Simon (France) bt Brian Baker (US) 6-4, 6-1, 6-7 (4-7), 1-6, 6-0; 31-Kevin Anderson (South Africa) bt Horacio Zeballos (Argentina) 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-0; 7-Tomas Berdych (Czech Republic) bt Michael Llodra (France) 6-2, 6-3, 6-3; 22-Andreas Seppi (Italy) bt Mikhail Kukushkin (Kazakhstan) 6-7 (5-7), 6-2, 2-6, 6-1, 6-2; Nicolas Devilder (France) bt Michael Berrer (Germany) 7-6 (7-5), 6-4, 6-2; 3-Roger Federer (Switzerland) bt Adrian Ungur (Romania) 6-3, 6-2, 6-7 (6-8), 6-3; 9-Juan Martin Del Potro (Argentina) bt Edouard Roger-Vasselin (France) 6-7 (5-7), 7-6 (7-3), 6-4, 6-4; 21-Marin Cilic (Croatia) bt Juan Carlos Ferrero (Spain) 7-6 (7-4), 6-2, 6-3; 1-Novak Djokovic (Serbia) bt Blaz Kavcic (Slovenia) 6-0, 6-4, 6-4.

Women’s singles: Second round: Petra Martic (Croatia) bt 8-Marion Bartoli (France) 6-2, 3-6, 6-3; Sloane Stephens (US) bt Bethanie Mattek-Sands (US) 6-1, 6-1; 26-Svetlana Kuznetsova (Russia) bt Chan Yung-Jan (Taiwan) 6-4, 7-6 (7-4); 13-Ana Ivanovic (Serbia) bt Shahar Peer (Israel) 6-2, 6-2; Mathilde Johansson (France) bt 24-Petra Cetkovska (Czech Republic) 7-6 (7-1), 6-2; Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez (Spain) bt 20-Lucie Safarova (Czech Republic) 6-4, 7-5; 27-Nadia Petrova (Russia) bt Chanelle Scheepers (South Africa) 6-3, 6-3; 29-Anabel Medina Garrigues (Spain) bt Irena Pavlovic (France) 6-3 ,6-2; Aleksandra Wozniak (Canada) bt 31-Zheng Jie (China) 6-2, 6-4; 21-Sara Errani (Italy) bt Melanie Oudin (US) 6-2, 6-3; 6-Samantha Stosur (Australia) bt Irina Falconi (US) 6-1, 6-4; 15-Dominika Cibulkova (Slovakia) bt Vania King (US) 6-0, 6-2; 1-Victoria Azarenka (Belarus) bt Dinah Pfizenmaier (Germany) 6-1, 6-1. Tuesday’s remaining results: Men’s singles: First round: 13-Juan Monaco (Argentina) bt Guillaume Rufin (France) 6-2, 2-6, 6-2, 7-6 (7-3); 4-Andy Murray (Britain) bt Tatsuma Ito (Japan) 6-1, 7-5, 6-0; Lukas Rosol (Czech Republic) bt Carlos Berlocq (Argentina) 6-4, 7-5, 6-7 (6-8), 6-2; 12-Nicolas Almagro (Spain) bt Paolo Lorenzi (Italy) 6-3, 7-5, 6-4; Robin Haase (Netherlands) bt Ivan Dodig (Croatia) 6-2, 6-2, 6-1. Women’s singles: First round: Virginie Razzano (France) bt 5-Serena Williams (US) 4-6, 7-6 (7-5), 6-3; 9-Caroline Wozniacki (Denmark) bt Eleni Daniilidou (Greece) 6-0, 6-1; Jarmila Gajdosova (Australia) bt Magdalena Rybarikova (Slovakia) 6-3, 4-1 – Rybarikova retired; Irina Begu (Romania) bt Aravane Rezai (France) 7-5, 5-7, 6-2; 16-Maria Kirilenko (Russia) bt Victoria Larriere (France) 6-1, 6-2; 23-Kaia Kanepi (Estonia) bt Alexandra Panova (Russia) 6-3, 6-3; Melinda Czink (Hungary) bt Anne Keothavong (Britain) 6-1, 6-2.—Reuters