World number one Novak Djokovic swept regally into the third round of the Australian Open on Wednesday before being forced to deny any involvement in the tennis match-fixing scandal that has dogged the first three days of the grand slam.<br />The Serbian defending champion granted Quentin Halys a 100-minute audience on Rod Laver Arena before despatching the French teenager 6-1 6-2 7-6(3) but he enjoyed a less comfortable ride in the post-match media conference.<br />Alerted to a story in an Italian newspaper suggesting his loss to now-retired French player Fabrice Santoro in Paris in 2007 was fixed, the 28-year-old denied it point blank.<br />"It's not true," he said when told he had been accused of deliberately losing.<br />"What it is to say?<br />I've lost that match."<br />"Anybody can create a story about that match or for that matter any of the matches of the top players losing in the early rounds, I think it's just absurd."
