Sixth seed Guillermo Coria outslugged Italy's Federico Luzzi 7-6 6-4 6-3 in a baseline-dominated second round match at the Australian Open on Thursday.
The Argentine world number nine and opponent Luzzi took almost three hours to complete the three-set match before Coria eventually booked his place in the last 32.
Coria needed all five sets to overcome Romania's Victor Hanescu in the opening round and appeared on course for another drawn-out clash against Luzzi after the first set lasted 74 minutes, with the tiebreak going to 22 points.
The eighth game of the second set typified the first two sets with Coria holding seven break points only for Luzzi to fight off each one in scrambling baseline rallies.
The former French Open finalist managed to break Luzzi in the 10th game of the set for a 2-0 lead before cantering away with the third to set up a clash with either 25th-seeded Frenchman Sebastien Grosjean or compatriot Juan Monaco.
