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Coric hit seven aces to Baez's one and finished
with a 16-5 advantage in total winners in the 81-minute match.
Baez was just one of nine seeded players to lose his Round of 32
match on Tuesday.
Lucky loser Zachary Svajda took down No. 3 seed Francisco
Cerundolo 6-4, 6-4; David Goffin of Belgium eased past No. 5
seed Luciano Darderi of Italy 6-2, 6-4; China's Juncheng Shang
beat No. 7 seed Mariano Navone of Argentina 7-5, 6-3; Brazil's
Thiago Seyboth Wild upset No. 8 seed Nuno Borges of Portugal 7-6
(2), 6-2; and qualifier Learner Tien outlasted No. 9 seed Fabian
Marozsan 6-2, 6-7 (1), 7-6 (2).
Belgium's Zizou Bergs rallied past sixth-seeded Tomas Martin
Etcheverry of Argentina, 4-6, 7-5, 6-3.
Italian No. 10 seed Lorenzo Sonego and French No. 12 seed Arthur
Rinderknech avoided the carnage, winning their matches in
straight sets. But Spanish wild card Pablo Carreno Busta
defeated Kazakh 13th seed Alxander Shevchenko 6-2, 6-2 in just
69 minutes, and Christopher Eubanks beat No. 14 seed Hugo Gaston
6-1, 6-4 in just 56 minutes.
No. 15 seed Pavel Kotov advanced with a 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 win over
Frenchman Alexandre Muller.
In evening action, No. 11 Alex Michelsen of the United States
downed Hungary's Marton Fucsovics 7-6 (3), 6-4, and No. 17 seed
Roman Safiullin of Russia topped France's Corentin Moutet 6-1,
7-5.
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