Defending champion Svetlana Kuznetsova was dumped out of the French Open in the third round on Friday after losing 6-3, 2-6, 6-4 to 30th-seeded Russian compatriot Maria Kirilenko.<br /><br />  <table style="width: 94px; height: 139px" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="94" align="right" border="1">  <tbody>  <tr>  <td><img alt="" src="/imagedata/2010/may/kuznetsova.jpg" border="0" /></td></tr>  <tr>  <td>  <p align="center"><span style="font-size: 8pt">Svetlana Kuznetsova </span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>Kirilenko, the world number 30, will face Italian 17th seed Francesca Schiavone for a place in the quarter-finals.<br /><br />Swedish fifth seed Robin Soderling reached the last 16 yesterday with a 6-4, 7-5, 2-6, 6-3 win over Spanish 29th seed Albert Montanes. Soderling, the runner-up to Roger Federer in 2009, will face either Croatian 10th seed Marin Cilic or Argentina's Leonardo Mayer for a place in the quarter-finals. <br /><strong><br />Nadal, Federer up</strong><br />Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal lifted the gloom with the Spanish claycourt king setting up a clash with Lleyton Hewitt.u00a0 Federer eased past German qualifier Julian Reister 6-4, 6-0, 6-4 to reach the fourth round and will tackle Stanislas Wawrinka for a place in the quarter-finals.<br /><br />Nadal beat Argentina's Horacio Zeballos.

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Defending champion Svetlana Kuznetsova was dumped out of the French Open in the third round on Friday after losing 6-3, 2-6, 6-4 to 30th-seeded Russian compatriot Maria Kirilenko

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