Roger Federer hits a return to Peter Polansky, in Toronto.

Roger Federer launched his North American hard court campaign and bid for an 80th career title in im-pressive style blowing past Canadian Peter Polansky 6-2 6-0 and into the third round of the Rogers Cup.

Seeing his first action since an epic five-set loss to Novak Djokovic in the Wimbledon final, Federer lacked sharpness at times but still barely worked up a good sweat on a balmy summer evening needing just 52 minutes to dispose of the Canadian wild card.

“I was happy, I started well and that’s always helpful to play more freely,” said Federer, a two-time winner this season.

“I think I could have served better at times but other than that, already in practice I felt I was moving well.

“Didn’t feel so good hitting the ball yet. Wasn’t quite getting used to the surface and now the last few days have been much better and I’m happy that in the match it kind of all worked really well.”

Federer, who will celebrate his 33rd birthday tomorrow, has reached the final four times winning the title twice, and a Canadian hat-trick would give the second seeded Swiss a milestone 80th career title.

The 17-time grand slam winner sits third on the all-time title list behind only Ivan Lendl (94) and Jimmy Connors (109).

Third seed Stan Wawrinka made it a perfect evening for the Swiss as he rallied for a 4-6 6-3 7-6 win over determined French qualifier Benoit Paire.

It was, however, a terrible day for the local contingent with all four home-grown players seeing action knocked out.

Vasek Pospisil, a semi-finalist in Canada a year ago who was playing his first match since losing Sunday’s Citi Open final in Washington, fell 7-5 7-5 to 12th seeded Frenchman Richard Gasquet.

Joining Pospisil and Polansky at the exit were compatriots Frank Dancevic, a 5-7 6-0 6-3 loser to Donald Young and Brayden Schnur, who dropped a 6-3 6-3 decision to Andreas Seppi.

Latvian 11th seed Ernest Gulbis had smooth passage on another stormy day at the Rexall Tennis Centre easing past Portugal’s Joao Sousa 6-3 6-4 while Italian 16th seed Fabio Fognini strolled past Russian Mikhail Youzhny 6-2 6-4.

Meanwhile, Andy Murray made light work of Nick Kyrgios as he cruised into the third round of the Rogers Cup with a 6-2 6-2 victory over the Australian, yesterday.

Kyrgios produced his career highlight by knocking Rafael Nadal out of Wimbledon this summer but he was unable to dent Murray’s challenge in Toronto.

Murray dominated the match with his serve, producing seven aces in the two sets to book a clash with Richard Gasquet in the next round.

It was Murray’s first match since failing to defend his Wimbledon title with a last-eight exit from the All England Club last month.

Second round: Djokovic bt Monfils 6-2 6-7 7-6.