For some reason, Andreev gives Federer trouble.  Apparently, Andreev trains a fair bit with David Ferrer, and his team has said that Andreev’s game is huge in practice.  He almost never misses, and he has a huge forehand.  But there’s practice and there’s real matches.

Federer didn’t look bad, by any means.  He’s playing his usual aggressive self, taking high risk shots and then making magic out of nothing, but Andreev was able to keep up.  Federer is just so used to this that we ekes out victories anyway.  Federer won the match 7-5, 7-6.

Djokovic, on the other hand, took a page out of Nadal’s book.  Andrey Golubev is a talented player, but he was bageled in the first set, 6-0.  Golubev did better in the second set, keeping it close at 6-4, but still lost.

American Ryan Harrison, who seems like a serious guy when it comes to tennis (in an intellectual sort of way), had a good win over Guillermo Garcia-Lopez.  Harrison has struggled getting past the early rounds against higher ranked players.

Melzer, Gasquet, Cilic, Llodra, Chela, Belluci all won.  Indeed, all the seeds won today except one, and that was Garcia-Lopez losing to Harrison.  This is impressive given that there are 32 seeds.  It’s hard enough for the top 16 seeds to move on, let alone the seeds between 16 and 32.

Raonic just took the first set over Mardy Fish who had his own set point earlier but couldn’t convert.  Raonic appeared to have back issues and had a trainer come out.  However, he resumed play and managed to win the first set.  Raonic shows some inconsistency in his game, making rookie mistakes, but spaces them out well enough that he doesn’t lose his serve.

Play resumes tomorrow with third round matches.