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2 slam winners knocked out

AFP, New York
Victoria Azarenka reached the fourth round while past Grand Slam champions Petra Kvitova and Svetlana Kuznetsova were ousted from the US Open in early upsets Saturday while Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer prepared for later third-round matches.
At the time this report was filed, Nadal had a one set lead and was 3-1 up in the second set against Croatian Ivan Dodig. Before that, two-time Australian Open champion Azarenka reached the fourth round of the US Open with a 6-7 (2/7), 6-3, 6-2 victory over French 26th seed Alize Cornet.
Czech seventh seed Kvitova, the 2011 Wimbledon champion who was reportedly hospitalised Friday, made 27 unforced errors and seven double faults to lose in only 65 minutes, falling to 81 st-ranked US wildcard Alison Riske 6-3,6-0.
Russian 27th seed Kuznetsova, the 2004 US Open and 2009 French Open champion, made 35 unforced errors in losing 7-5, 6-1 to Italy’s 83rd-ranked Flavia Pennetta, who had lost their five prior career matchups. Pennetta will next face Romania's Simona Halep.
Halep breezed into the fourth round at a Grand Slam for the first time by ripping Russian 14th seed Maria Kirilenko 6-1,6-0 in 51 minutes.
Second-seeded Nadal and Swiss star Federer, who will face French left-hander Adrian Mannarino, have never played each other on the Flushing Meadows hardcourts, but triumphs later would put them each in the round of 16 on a collision course for the last eight.
US 13th seed John Isnergets a chance to avenge a third-round US Open ouster last year when he meets German 22nd seed Philipp Kohlschreiber.
Britain's Daniel Evans, in his deepest Grand Slam run, tries to reach the last 16 against Spanish 19th seed Tommy Robredo. Evans would be the first qualifier in the US Open fourth round since Luxembourg's Gilles
Muller in 2008.
Spanish fourth seed David Ferrer will meet Russian-born Kazakh qualifier Mikhail Kukushkin while French eighth seed Richard Gasquet faces Russia's 32nd-seeded Dmitry Tursunov.
A day earlier on Friday, Australian warhorse Lleyton Hewitt battled to a five-set US Open win over Argentine sixth seed Juan Martin Del Potro Friday, relegating Andy Murray, Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams - all of whom moved into the third round - to supporting roles.
The 2001 champion defeated the 2009 winner, 6-4, 5-7, 3-6, 7-6 (7/2), 6-1. Hewitt, 32 years old and down at 66 in the rankings after a lengthy battle with injuries, served up a trademark warrior-like performance that recalled his golden days when he was world number one and Wimbledon champion.
It was his 32nd career five-set victory and gave him a third-round match-up with Russia's Evgeny Donskoy, the world number 102.