Seventh seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga impressed again as he moved into round three of the US Open.
The Frenchman was a comfortable winner in the first round and he looked in good nick once more on Friday as he eased to a 7-5 6-3 6-4 victory over Finn Jarkko Nieminen.
Tsonga, last year's Australian Open runner-up, broke once in each set and saved the only break point he faced as he won in an hour and 49 minutes.
The limited Nieminen fought well in the first set but cracked serving to stay in it at 5-6.
From that stage you always sensed Tsonga would emerge victorious and so it proved.
Nieminen could not handle the Frenchman's big serve - he could win just four points on his first delivery in the match - and was powerless to prevent Tsonga setting up a last-32 meeting with either Julien Benneteau or Viktor Troicki.
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