Four-times champion Novak Djokovic and top seed Rafael Nadal have advanced to the third round of the weather-interrupted Canadian Open.
Djokovic, coming off his fourth Wimbledon title, beat Canadian wild card Peter Polansky 6-3 6-4 after heavy morning rain in Toronto delayed the ATP Masters 1000 match by about an hour.
The Serb had seven aces and never faced a break point in the one-hour 24-minute match, which just beat the afternoon delay.
"I thought I served well in the moments when I really need it," Djokovic said on Wednesday.
"I thought I found pretty good accuracy and angles with the first serve and also my second serve worked pretty well.
"Overall, my game was so-and-so. In the moments when I probably needed to step it up, I did."
Greece's Stefanos Tsitsipas set up a round of 16 showdown with Djokovic by knocking off seventh-seeded Austrian Dominic Thiem 6-3 7-6 (8-6).
Nadal, playing for the first time since a five-set loss to Djokovic in the Wimbledon semi-finals, topped France's Benoit Paire 6-2 6-3 in a night match after a series of stoppages due to rain.
The Spanish world No.1 faces Nick Kyrgios' first-round conqueror Stan Wawrinka after the Swiss came from behind to battle past Marton Fucsovics.
After losing the first set 6-1, wild card Wawrinka took the second 7-6 (7/2) to force a third.
The decider ended in a 22-game tiebreak, with the former world No.3 taking the set 7-6 (12/10).
German second seed Alexander Zverev, the winner last week in Washington, beat American Bradley Klahn 6-4 6-4 while fourth-seeded South African Kevin Anderson edged Russia's Evgeny Donskoy 4-6 6-2 7-6 (7-0).
Eighth-seeded John Isner beat France's Pierre-Hugues Herbert 7-6 (7-3) 6-2 but Italy's 14th seed Fabio Fognini, coming off a victory at Los Cabos, suffered a 6-3 7-5 (16-14) defeat to Canadian young gun Denis Shapovalov.
Karen Khachanov upset 12th-seeded Pablo Carreno Busta 6-4 7-6 (7-3), Ilya Ivashka toppled Ryan Harrison 7-6 (7-5) 6-4 and American Frances Tiafoe edged Canada's Milos Raonic 7-6 (7-4) 4-6 6-1.
Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina withdrew because of a left wrist injury.
Del Potro, who had a bye in the first round, was set to play Robin Haase, with the Dutchman instead facing lucky loser Mikhail Youzhny.
The Russian veteran battled hard in the first set but fell to Haase 7-5 6-2.
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