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30 January 2009
The American, who has never won the title at Roland Garros, failed to land a game in the first set.
Although she fared better in the second, 29th seed Szavay ended up a 6-0 6-4 winner on Suzanne Lenglen court.
Top seed Dinara Safina recovered from a testing start to race to a straight-sets victory over fellow Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.
The world number one needed just an hour and seven minutes to post a 6-2 6-0 victory on Court One, and will now play France's Aravane Rezai in round four.
Sixteen-year-old Portuguese Michelle Larcher de Brito was forced to defend her loud shrieking and grunting after she fell to a 7-6 (7/3) 6-2 loss to Rezai.
Reigning champion Ana Ivanovic continued her ruthless streak at Roland Garros with a straight-sets thrashing of Iveta Benesova.
The Serbian's 6-0 6-2 win over the Czech, ranked 35 in the world, means she has yet to drop a set at this week.
Former world number one Maria Sharapova recovered from a dreadful start to advance into round four.
The Russian, who is ranked 102 in the world after having shoulder problems for the past year, beat Kazakhstan's Yaroslava Shvedova 1-6 6-3 6-4.
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