Former world number one Lleyton Hewitt has tipped Roger Federer to set a new Grand Slam record at Wimbledon.

Hewitt eased into the second round of the AEGON Championships with a straight sets victory over Eduardo Schwank as the Australian began his bid to win the Queen's Club tournament for the fifth time in his career.

Hewitt, ranked 49th in the world, raced into a 6-1 first-set lead over his Argentinian opponent in 22 minutes.

The Australian, who has won six of his 27 career titles on grass, gave Schwank, ranked 109, little opportunity to get into the game which was concluded after 44 minutes when Hewitt took the second set 6-0.

Hewitt still harbours hopes of winning the title for the first time since 2006 but with Wimbledon looming, the focus was also on Roger Federer's record-equalling Grand Slam success in the French Open.

The win put him level with Pete Sampras on 14 Grand Slam titles and Federer's latest triumph has already made him favourite to regain the Wimbledon title this summer.

"It was an amazing achievement," said Hewitt. "His record speaks for itself. From what I saw of the match yesterday, he played his best tennis in the final.

"There was a lot of pressure and expectation on him. He came out and played one of his best matches. I think coming to Wimbledon is probably his favourite tournament of the year, so he's going to be feeling pretty confident.

"When Pete won that many, I think everyone thought that it was an unbelievable achievement and it was going to take someone a long time to do it.

"Roger's obviously an exception, though, to do it as quickly as he has.

"Roger is still the favourite for Wimbledon. He hasn't done too much wrong. Even though last year he lost, he only just lost.

"He was probably only a point or two away from winning and Rafa Nadal probably played the best grass court match he could ever play.

"Roger's going to be the one to beat. But Andy Murray has got a good chance, no doubt about that, both here and Wimbledon.

"He's number three in the world at the moment and plays extremely well on this surface."

While Hewitt cruised through to the next round, Britain's two wild card entries suffered defeats.

Both Josh Goodall and Jamie Ward found the opposition too tough and went out in straight sets.

Goodall lost to Luxembourg left-hander Gilles Muller 6-3 7-6 after squandering four chances to secure the second set.

"I felt I should have won the second set," said Goodall. "I was 6-3 up in the tie break. I'm not playing unbelievable tennis but I felt I should have won that set. At this level you have to win the point.

"If I can keep on getting myself in these sort of tournaments, then I think eventually I can get over the hill and get used to it."

British number four Ward found the power of Cypriot wild card entry Marcos Baghdatis too much to cope with and went down 6-2 6-3.

But the 22-year-old Middlesex player, ranked 220 in the world, has already set his sights on getting a wild card entry into this year's Wimbledon.

"At the end of the day, it's up to them, up to the All England Club," said Ward. "I hope I've done enough all year round and my recent results have been enough to push for one."

Elsewhere on the opening day, Spanish left-hander Feliciano Lopez overcame American Robert Kendrick 7-6 (7/3) 7-6 (7/3).

It was Lopez's first victory at the Queen's Club in four attempts and he showed glimpses of the form that propelled him to the quarter-finals at Wimbledon last year.