(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-03-17 13:46

INDIAN WELLS, California - Andy Roddick crashed out of the Pacific Life Open on Sunday while second-seeded Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova advanced after a battling 6-1 4-6 6-3 win over Slovakia's Dominika Cibulkova.

Russia's Maria Sharapova celebrates winning a point during her match against Greece's Eleni Daniilidou at the Pacific Life Open tennis tournament in Indian Wells, California March 16, 2008. [Agencies]

American Roddick, the sixth seed, was beaten 6-4 6-4 by Germany's Tommy Haas in a second-round match after Kuznetsova came back from an error-prone second set to seal victory against Cibulkova in one hour, 48 minutes.

Much smoother progress was made by Swiss world number one Roger Federer and Australian Open champion Maria Sharapova who won their respective matches in straight sets.

Federer, fully recovered from a bout of mononucleosis (glandular fever), crushed Spaniard Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6-3 6-2 and Sharapova maintained her perfect start to the year by sweeping past Eleni Daniilidou of Greece 7-5 6-3.

World number three Kuznetsova, who lost to Slovakian Daniela Hantuchova in last year's final, was relieved after booking her place in the fourth round of the women's draw at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden.

"I just stopped a little bit and lost my concentration," the Russian told reporters of her slump midway through the match.

"I have to figure out how to start playing better earlier after being 5-0 down in the second set. I didn't want to go to the third set 6-0 down so I changed that to give me the key to play better in the third."

Kuznetsova, initially dominating the baseline exchanges, cruised through the opening set after breaking her opponent in the second and sixth games.

However, the Russian inexplicably began to over-hit her groundstrokes and was broken in the second and fourth games of the second set to trail 0-5.

LEVELLED MATCH

She mounted a fightback to close to 4-5 but Cibulkova again broke in the 10th game to level the match.

Kuznetsova, a runner-up this year in Sydney and Dubai, upped her game in the third set to book a place in the next round against Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki.

The 17-year-old Dane, who won the 2006 Wimbledon junior title, brushed aside Aiko Nakamura of Japan 6-0 6-2 in 53 minutes.

In the men's draw, 2003 U.S. Open champion Roddick was swept aside in 85 minutes on the Stadium Court.

Haas, a former world number two whose career has featured a series of injuries and surgeries, broke in the ninth game to take the opening set.

He delivered successive backhand passes down the line to break Roddick again in the seventh game of the second set before serving out in the 10th to wrap up victory.

The 29-year-old Haas will next meet 30th-seeded Spaniard Fernando Verdasco, who beat Victor Hanescu of Romania 4-6 6-4 6-3.

In other men's matches, 11th-seeded Briton Andy Murray came from a set down to beat Austria's Juergen Melzer 3-6 6-3 6-3 and Russian Mikhail Youzhny, the 13th seed, beat Gilles Simon of France 7-5 6-4.

Later on Sunday, women's title-holder Hantuchova was scheduled to play Zheng Jie of China in an evening match.