Top seed Stan Wawrinka on Tuesday cruised past Albert Ramos-Vinolas of Spain 6-1, 6-1 in the Geneva Open second round.
The French Open champion spent just 53 minutes on court against his 53rd-ranked opponent in preparation for his defense of the French Open title next week.
Wawrinka is to play another Spaniard in the quarter-finals, 43rd-ranked Pablo Carreno Busta, who beat compatriot Inigo Cervantes 6-2, 6-4.
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In a first-round match, defending Geneva Open champion Thomaz Bellucci of Brazil also won easily, 6-1, 6-1 against Mikhail Kukushkin of Kazakhstan.
Rajeev Ram of the US beat Russian qualifier Evgeny Donskoy 7-6 (7/5), 4-6, 6-3, while Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan ousted Florian Mayer of Germany 6-2, 6-3.
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Third-seeded Kevin Anderson won for only the third time this year in reaching the Nice Open quarter-finals on Tuesday.
Anderson, who received a wild card at the clay-court tournament, hit seven aces and broke Diego Schwartzman of Argentina twice to win 7-6 (7/4), 6-3.
The 20th-ranked South African has been struggling with various injuries, and underwent ankle surgery in March. He is to take on fifth-seeded Joao Sousa or Victor Estrella Burgos in the next round.
Also, seventh seed Andreas Seppi needed longer than 2 hours, 30 minutes to rally past Daniel Munoz de la Nava 6-7 (4/7), 7-5, 6-4 after saving a match point at 4-5 in the second set.
He is to be up against Paul-Henri Mathieu in the second round.
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