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Tennis-Round-up of Day Three at Wimbledon

LONDON, June 29 (Reuters) - Round-up of third day of Wimbledon on Wednesday (all times GMT): DJOKOVIC OVERCOMES MANNARINO IN STRAIGHT SETS Men's number one seed Novak Djokovic sealed his third-round spot after he comfortably beat Adrian Mannarino of France 6-4 6-3 7-6(5). Champion Djokovic sweeps past Mannarino FEDERER POWERS TO EASY WIN OVER WILDCARD WILLIS Men's third seed and seven-times Wimbledon champion Roger Federer beat Britain's world number 772 Marcus Willis 6-0 6-3 6-4. Federer plays cameo role to end Willis fairytale RADWANSKA RACES TO VICTORY Women's third seed and 2012 Wimbledon finalist Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland stormed into the second round with a 6-2 6-1 victory over Kateryna Kozlova of Ukraine. Radwanska settles in for afternoon of TV tennis [nL4N19L46D THIEM BREEZES PAST MAYER Men's eighth seed and 2016 French Open semi-finalist Dominic Thiem beat Germany's Florian Mayer 7-5 6-4 6-4 to move into the next round. Young pretenders Thiem, Zverev map out path to summit KVITOVA BEATS CIRSTEA Women's 10th seed and twice Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova breezed past Romania's Sorana Cirstea 6-0 6-4 to move into the second round. Former champion Kvitova in a hurry to reach round two BERDYCH BATTLES PAST DODIG Men's 10th seed Tomas Berdych came through a tough match against Croatia's Ivan Dodig 7-6(5) 5-7 6-1 7-6(2) to move into the second round. Coachless Berdych battles to four-set win at rain-hit Wimbledon TOMIC WINS IN FIVE SETS Men's 19th seed Bernard Tomic battled past Spain's Fernando Verdasco 4-6 6-3 6-3 3-6 6-4 in a rain interrupted match to move into the second round. (Compiled by Nivedita Shankar and Simon Jennings in Bengaluru, editing by Ed Osmond)