Lleyton Hewitt has moved into the third round at Wimbledon with a straight sets win over Georgia's world No.45 Irakli Labadze.

Although Hewitt won 6-4 6-4 6-1, the match wasn't as easy as the score suggested with Labadze's power game troubling the seventh seed at times.

But his power brought Labadze as many wild errors as winners and Hewitt capitalised on his erratic game to progress to the next round.

Hewitt broke Labadze in the opening game of the match but that was the only one of eight break points he converted in the first set.

He just couldn't put Labadze away when he had him 15-40, 30-40 and 0-40 in successive games as the erratic Georgian pulled out the big serves and power strikes when it mattered to save himself time and again.

A double fault when Labadze tried to throw down a booming second serve ace on his fourth break point down in the second set gave Hewitt the edge.

Hewitt had no trouble on his serve and for the second match in a row did not look like dropping it.

He broke early in the third set to go 2-1 up when a 25-minute rain break interrupted play and the Georgian didn't win a game on their return.

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