World number one Rafael Nadal advanced to the fourth round of the ATP and WTA hardcourt tournament on Monday with a 7-5, 6-3 triumph over Portugal's Frederico Gil.
In the round of 16, the Spanish star will face the winner of a later match between Swiss 16th seed Stanislas Wawrinka and Russian 20th seed Igor Andreev.
Nadal, who won the year's first Grand Slam event last January at the Australian Open, won 89 percent of his first serve points to just 57 percent for Gil.
Australian Samantha Stosur, ranked 42nd, continued her strong run into the quarter-finals by ousting French 20th seed Amelie Mauresmo 6-4, 6-4.
Stosur, who eliminated Russian world number two Dinara Safina in the third round, will next meet 11th seed Victoria Azarenka of Belarus, who defeated Hungarian 25th seed Agnes Szavay 6-2, 6-4.
US fifth seed Venus Williams ousted Polish 10th seed Agnieszka Radwanska 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 to reach the final eight.
Danish 13th seed Caroline Wozniacki upset fourth seed Elena Dementieva 7-5, 6-4, to reach the women's quarter-finals. She next faces another Russian, eighth seed Svetlana Kuznetsova, who beat compatriot Alisa Kleybanova 6-2, 6-1.
Others reaching the men's round of 16 included Argentina's sixth-seeded Juan Martin Del Potro, who beat Serbian Janko Tipsarevic 6-4, 6-1, and Serbian Viktor Troicki, who ousted Germany's Bjorn Phau 6-4, 6-3.
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