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A third round win served to Hewitt's serves
Lleyton Hewitt's straight sets victory in third round over Belgium's Olivier Rochus came as a breather after his survival act in the second round.
Lleyton Hewitt was able to get his breath back for the second week of Wimbledon after advancing to the last 16 with a straight sets win over Belgium's Olivier Rochus on Saturday.
Hewitt, the 2002 champion and sixth seed, won 6-1, 6-4, 6-4 to advance to a fourth round meeting with David Ferrer of Spain.
The Australian, who survived an energy-sapping five-set battle with Lee Hyung-Taik in the previous round, was delighted to get back to a more consistent level of performance.
"My serve especially was good," he reported. "I mixed it up well and although it went off in patches in the third set, I served well when I needed to.
"I felt I was putting lot of pressure on him right from the start. To have gone for five sets in today's heat would have taken a lot out of you. I had a tough one in the last round and it is nice to bounce back in this way."
