MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) – Wimbledon champion Roger Federer routed teenage wild-card entry Todd Reid 6-3, 6-0, 6-1 on Saturday to advance to the fourth round of the Australian Open.

Federer, seeded second, dropped serve in the fifth game of the first set, then reeled off 14 consecutive games to win the first two sets and take a 4-0 lead in the third.

The 22-year-old Swiss star won eight of the last nine points to finish off the match in 74 minutes.

Reid, 19, struggled through the second round, vomiting during a grueling five-set win over Armenia’s Sargis Sargsian.

Federer didn’t give him any reprieve, firing 31 winners and earning his third straight-sets win in three rounds to match his best performance in the season-opening Grand Slam event.

“I played well, had my difficulties in the start, but it went better in the end,” Federer said. “I’m just happy to be again through to the fourth round. I hope I can go better this time.”

Federer will face the winner of a night match between Australia’s Lleyton Hewitt, a former U.S. Open and Wimbledon champion, and 17-year-old Spaniard Rafael Nadal.

French Open champion Juan Carlos Ferrero played Sweden’s Joachim Johansson later Saturday.

On the women’s side, No. 2 Kim Clijsters faced Dinara Safina and No. 3 Venus Williams played No. 25 Lisa Raymond.

While Federer was relentless against Reid, top-ranked Andy Roddick was just as ruthless against Taylor Dent on Friday night.

Dent did little but chase balls nonstop during a humbling 71 minutes of tennis, losing 6-2, 6-0, 6-2 to Roddick.

Dent called the loss “without question, the worst tennis experience of my entire life.”

“I wasn’t tanking out there. I was busting my butt … it was embarrassing, absolutely embarrassing,” he said.

Dent found relief nowhere: Roddick punished him on the court; a heckler berated him from the stands.

“The lady said, ‘Come on, Taylor, I paid a lot of money for these seats,”‘ Dent recalled. “I said, ‘It’s costing me a lot of pride to stay out here.”‘

Roddick was hardly about to spare his friend and potential U.S. Davis Cup teammate.

“The thing is you’re so paranoid that – OK at least the way my mind works – you’re up a break in the third, he breaks back, you’re on serve, it’s a battle again,” Roddick said.

Defending champion Andre Agassi was equally overpowering. The eight-time Grand Slam champ routed Sweden’s Thomas Enqvist 6-0, 6-3, 6-3 to extend his winning streak in the Australian Open to 24 matches – spanning titles in 2000, ’01 and ’03.

“I feel like I did everything I was looking to do,” said the fourth-seeded Agassi, 5-5 in matches against Enqvist.

Top-ranked Justine Henin-Hardenne survived her first serious challenge, losing her serve twice in the second set before taking four consecutive games to beat Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-2, 7-5.

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