Defending champion Rafael Nadal has entered the third round of the Men's Singles at the French Open tennis championships. In Paris yesterday, the Spaniard handed out a bruising lesson to highly-rated Austrian Dominic Thiem with a 6-2, 6-2, 6-3 victory. Eight-time winner Nadal, bidding to be the first man to clinch five Roland Garros titles in a row, had been expected to face a severe test from the 20-year-old world number 57. Nadal will now face either Leonardo Mayer of Argentina or Russia's Teymuraz Gabashvili. Nadal's compatriot David Ferrer, the fifth seed and last year's runner-up, cruised past Italy's Simone Bolelli 6-2, 6-3, 6-2 and next faces either Italy's Andreas Seppi or Juan Monaco of Argentina. In another match, Donald Young, the former world junior number one, made the third round for the first time by beating Spanish 26th seed Feliciano Lopez 6-3, 7-6, 6-3.Looking to make the most of the shock defeats of top seeds Serena Williams and Li Na in the women's draw, Serbsixth seed Jelena Jankovic, eased past Japan's Kurumi Nara 7-5, 6-0. In other results, Sloane Stephens, the 15th seed and top American following the defeat of defending champion Williams, saw off Slovenia's Polona Hercog 6-1, 6-3. Russian 27th seed Svetlana Kuznetsova, the champion in 2009, beat Italy's Camila Giorgi 7-6 , 6-3.In Women's doubles yesterday, fifth seeds Sania Mirza and Cara Black entered the second round. The Indo-Zimbabwean pair recorded a 6-3 6-3 win over Slovakia's Daniela Hantuchova and Israel's Shahar Peer. They will next play the Canadian-Polish combine of Gabriela Dabrowski and Alicja Rosolska