Friday, October 6 2006 14:37 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Tokyo: World number one Roger Federer produced a near flawless display to demolish defending champion Wesley Moodie on yesterday (Oct 5,2006) and reach the Japan Open quarter-finals.

The Swiss top seed, who was forced to work hard to beat Serbian qualifier Fernando Vicente on Wednesday, raced to a lopsided 6-2, 6-1 victory over the 73rd ranked South African.

"I was expecting a really tough match because he (Moodie) is somebody who is famous for his good serve and volley and he played really well last year here," said the 25-year-old.

"I expected to have maybe more of a struggle today than yesterday. That I came through so convincingly, for me it's quite surprising," he said.

"But I played great, I picked up the serves really well, and came up with some incredible shots," he said.

Moodie, who captured his first and only career title a year ago here, got off to a flyer with three straight aces in the second game of the first set.

But from there on the 27-year-old struggled. His serve-and-volley game collapsed and he failed to engineer a single break opportunity.

Federer, who set an Open Era record of a 56-match hard court winning streak earlier this year, settled into his game and never looked troubled.

Once he broke Moodie's serve in the sixth game of the first set to lead 4-2, there was only ever going to be one winner.

"He hit great serves (at the beginning). I tried to make sure that at least I got the racket on it," said Federer.

"My reaction time got faster throughout the match and I got to read (the court) better, but at the beginning, and I've never played him before, it was hard," he said.

Japan's wild card entrant Takao Suzuki earned a place against Federer when he staved off several match points in the second set before beating Alexander Waske of Germany 6-7 (4/7), 7-6 (12/10), 6-1.

Earlier, France's Youlia Fedossova led the charge into the women's singles quarter-finals by beating local hope Akiko Morigami 4-6, 7-5, 6-3.

Former world doubles number one Ai Sugiyama of Japan joined Fedossova in the last eight when she defeated American Vania King 6-4, 5-7, 7-5.