Quarter-final Line-up Confirmed In Sydney

© Getty ImagesHewitt is a four-time former champion in Sydney.

The quarter-final line-up at the Medibank International Sydney was locked in on Wednesday, with all eight second-round matches decided at the ATP World Tour 250 hard-court tournament.

Fourth seed and local hero Lleyton Hewitt, a four-time former champion in Sydney, was in devastating form on Ken Rosewall Arena, outclassing Italian Andreas Seppi, 6-0, 6-2 in 55 minutes.  Having received a first-round bye, Hewitt handled the blustery conditions well and was very happy with his performance.

"I could see in the early stages the conditions were gonna be tough for all players out there today," said Hewitt, champion here in 2000-01, 2004-05.  "It was more trying to play the percentages, especially early on, and just get a feel for it out there, and I felt like I did that really well."

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Local representation remains strong with wildcard Peter Luczak's upset of No. 2 seed Tomas Berdych, 1-6, 6-4, 6-2.  Both players won 77 points throughout the match but 30-year-old Luczak finished in fine form, not allowing the Czech a single break point in the final set.

Marcos Baghdatis, Australian Open runner-up in 2006, reached the quarter-finals with a 7-5, 6-3 win over sixth-seeded Serb Viktor Troicki. Baghdatis was particularly effective on his first serve, winning 91 per cent of those points; he meets Hewitt for a place in the semi-finals.

"I served better than last time and was more solid, so it was a great victory today and I'm really happy," Baghdatis said.  "[I'm] more focused on the court, more positive, and [I'm] starting to feel a little bit the tactical game, my game and movement on the court, my routine.  It's a bit of everything that's getting into place."

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France's Richard Gasquet advanced to his second quarter-final of the Australian swing with a 6-2, 7-6(4) victory over No. 8-seeded German Benjamin Becker.

World No. 53-ranked Gasquet, a beaten quarter-finalist last week at the Brisbane International (l. to eventual champion Andy Roddick), repeated the result of their only prior meeting in this very event in the same round three years ago.

In the quarter-finals Gasquet will meet Italian Potito Starace, the beneficiary of Daniel Gimeno-Traver's retirement with a leg injury.  In their first-ever meeting, Starace was leading the Spanish lucky loser, 6-3, 3-2.

Mardy Fish, the lone American remaining in contention, easily accounted for Kazakhstan's Evgeny Korolev, 6-1, 6-2, in 59 minutes.  Fish fired eight aces to Korolev's one, saving the only break point he faced in the entire match.

Argentinian qualifier Leonardo Mayer, who saved five match points to beat No. 7 seed Igor Andreev on Monday, had an easier time of it against Uruguay's Pablo Cuevas, winning 6-4, 6-2.

France's Julien Benneteau edged American lucky loser Taylor Dent, 6-3, 5-7, 7-6(2) in two hours, 10 minutes.  Dent replaced third seed Stanislas Wawrinka, who withdrew due to a neck muscle strain.