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The five-times Australian Open champion raced out to an
opening 5-0 lead before Seppi, who beat Federer in four sets at
the same stage last year, finally held his own serve though the
Serb clinched the first set in 25 minutes in the next game.
Seppi, however, then rediscovered the form that troubled Federer
so much last year and it was only successive lengthy rallies of
20 and 32 shots in the 11th game of the second set that enabled
Djokovic to break, then serve out.
The pair remained on serve throughout an evenly matched third
set until Djokovic saved two set points in the tiebreak to set
up a fourth round clash with 14th seeded Frenchman Gilles Simon.
(Reporting by Greg Stutchbury; Editing by Alison Williams)
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