World No 1 Novak Djokovic cruised into the fourth round of the Miami ATP Masters and WTA tournament on Sunday with a 6-2, 6-4 victory over India's Somdev Devvarman. Djokovic remained on course for a third straight title on the hard courts of Key Biscayne - a fourth overall - and will battle German veteran Tommy Haas for a place in the quarter-finals.
The 25-year-old Serbian, who won the title in 2007, 2011 and 2012, had little trouble against Devvarman, who has fallen to 254th in the world after a near-seven month absence last season with a shoulder injury. Djokovic, who saw a 22-match winning streak halted in the semi-finals at Indian Wells last week, hasn't lost to a player outside the top 100 since 2010. Devvarman never looked like reversing that trend against the Serbian, who has reached the final in Miami every time he has made it past the second round.
"Considering the wind, it was a nice day," Djokovic said. "Conditions not so great. It was very difficult to kind of get into the rhythm because you couldn't really serve at your 100 percent and you had to go more for precision and you had to put twice as much effort in the step adjustments. In other men's action, third-seeded David Ferrer of Spain continued his dominance of Italian Fabio Fognini with a 6-1, 7-5 victory. In the late match, Austria's Jurgen Melzer rallied to beat Tobias Kamke 6-7 (3/7), 6-3, 6-4.