Richard scored a convincing 6-3 6-3 6-1 victory against World Number 9 Janko Tipsarevic. Richard's winner/unforced errors ratio was 33-8! His next opponent is David Ferrer.
The first few games already set the tone. At 2-1* Richard had delivered 6 winners. He broke the Serb in the sixth game and took the set without the slightest hesitation. In the second set, Richard broke Tipsarevic in his first and last service game to win 6-3. In the final set, Tipsarevic seemd to have given up and Richard was 4-0 quickly.
A couple of nice winners brought the rebreak for the Serb, but Richard was unimpressesed, rebroke straight away and served out the match.