Coria Misery Continues, Dulko Upset at ATP Acapulco

Top-seeded Guillermo Coria dropped his win-loss record to 3-3 on the year Tuesday at the ATP claycourt stop in Acapulco, while on the women's side three of the four seeds in action safely advanced.

The Top 10-ranked Argentine Coria was easily dismissed by Italian qualifier Alessio Di Mauro 6-2, 6-4, and has yet to advance past the third round in an event this season.

"I'm playing badly. Not just in this game but all year," Coria said. "I thought I could change the situation today, but it was very difficult. The court is very fast and he took advantage of his opportunities."

Seeded winners at the Mexican Open were (5) Jose Acasuso (d. (WC) S.Gonzalez), (7) Juan Ignacio Chela (d. Argentine countryman Monaco who retired in the third set with injury), and (8) Nicolas Massu (d. Berlocq).

No. 4 Filippo Volandri was another seeded casualty, getting bageled in the first set in a three-set loss to Spaniard Al Martin.

Winners in all-unseeded matches were Argentine Agustin Calleri (d. N.Lapentti), Serb Boris Pashanski (d. Minar from a set down), Spanish qualifier Nicolas Almagro (d. Vicente in three), and Peru's Luis Horna (d. Dlouhy).

In women's play Tuesday, three seeds advanced in (1) Flavia Pennetta (d. Ant. Serra Zanetti), (3) Klara Koukalova (d. Gubacsi), and (7) Anna Smashnova (d. Munoz Gallegos), while (4) Gisela Dulko was upset in straight sets by Frenchwoman Emilie Loit.

Unseeded winners on the day were Meghann Shaughnessy (d. Diaz-Olivia 1-and-0), Tathiana Garbin (d. Dominguez Lino), Natalia Gussoni (d. Ondraskova), Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez (d. Sromova), Laura Pous Tio (d. Sanchez Lorenzo from a set down), and Carla Tiene (d. Parra Santonja, bagel in the second).

On tap Wednesday for the women are Koukalova vs. Pous Tio, Pennetta vs. Garbin, Gagliardi vs. Loit, Martinez Sanchez vs. Benesova, Castano vs. Shaughnessy, Bohmova vs. Gussoni, Tiene vs. Groenefeld, and Ani vs. Smashnova.

The men's schedule Wednesday on the dirt is (Q) Almagro vs. (5) Acasuso, Sabau vs. (2) Gaudio, (3) Moya vs. Montanes, (Q) Di Mauro vs. Pashanski, (8) Massu vs. Daniel, Calleri vs. A.Martin, Behrend vs. (7) Chela, and (Q) Marin vs. Horna.