Venus Williams was eliminated from the French Open on Friday, losing in the third round of the clay-court major for the third straight year.

The third-seeded Williams, who reached the 2002 final at Roland Garros, lost to No. 29 Agnes Szavay of Hungary 6-0, 6-4.

The seven-time Grand Slam champion was playing for the third straight day. Szavay, the 29th seed from Hungary, stormed through the first set and then outplayed Williams in the second to set up a meeting with Dominika Cibulkova.

Ana Ivanovic, the defending champion, had little trouble in her match, advancing to the fourth round with a 6-0, 6-2 win over Iveta Benesova of the Czech Republic.

The Serbian has lost only eight games since being taken to a tiebreaker in her opening match by Italy's Sara Errani.

"(The) score doesn't indicate how hard I had to work for some points," Ivanovic said. "She started playing much, much better in the second set, and started hitting the ball much heavier. I just played really good and stayed in the moment and did what I had to do out there."

Michelle Larcher de Brito, the Portuguese teen prodigy, meanwhile saw her dream of becoming the youngest ever women's winner in Paris bite the dust.

At 16 years and four months the youngest player left in the women's draw, Larcher de Brito went down 7-6 (7/3), 6-2 to France's Aravane Rezai in a bad-tempered clash that saw the players trading barbs over the Portuguese player's ear-splitting on-court vocals.

Rezai complained on several occasions to the umpire that the high-pitched screams that accompanied her opponent's shot-making were putting her off.

"It's very disturbing, it's disturbing me," she told him before insisting he consult the Grand Slam supervisor on the issue. "Please, there is a limit, enough."

Larcher de Brito had annoyed Philippe Chatrier Court by shrieking not just as she hit the ball but also when Rezai sent shots long, and angered the crowd further by slamming her racket into the ground after losing points.

She had clawed her way back from a break down to force a tie-break against Rezai in the first set, but double faults let her down in that.

In the second, she quickly fell behind as her service game wobbled again and despite saving three match points at 1-5 down, she could do nothing to prevent 22-year-old Rezai reaching the fourth round for the first time in five attempts.

Earlier, Novak Djokovic reached the third round in the men's tournament, quickly completing his suspended match by easily winning the final set to complete a 6-3, 6-4, 6-1 win over Sergiy Stakhovsky of Ukraine

The fourth-seeded Djokovic won the first two sets on Thursday, but the match was stopped as darkness fell. He broke Stakhovsky to open the third set and had little trouble the rest of the way.

"It's not pleasant when you don't finish a match in one day," Djokovic said. "But I was lucky to come back and be two sets up."

Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany also advanced to the third round, beating 2003 French Open champion Juan Carlos Ferrero 6-4, 2-6, 6-4, 6-7 (3), 6-3 in another match suspended by bad light.