Fifth seed Nikolay Davydenko continued his smooth ride through the U.S. tennis Open in New York with a straight sets third-round win over fellow Russian Dmitry Tursunov.
The 26th seeded Tursunov stretched him to a tiebreak in the second but Davydenko won it 7-3. He claimed an early break in the third to go 3-1 ahead and closed it off efficiently.
Davydenko, a semi-finalist in New York for the last two years, could run into four-times champion Roger Federer in the quarter-finals.
The Russian will next face either Nicolas Almagro of Spain or Gilles Muller of Luxembourg.
