MELBOURNE, Australia -- Three-time champion Andre Agassi took the simplest path to the third round, losing just one game in his second match at the Australian Open.

	Besides Andre Agassi, Yevgeny Kafelnikov was the only other Aussie champion in the field.

Lee Hyung-taik threatened Agassi for about three minutes, winning his first serve at love and holding three break points in the next. Agassi rallied and won 18 consecutive games for a 6-1, 6-0, 6-0 victory in 80 minutes Wednesday.

Lee was the first South Korean player to win an ATP Tour title in Sydney last Saturday, but he was no match for Agassi, who had no pity for Lee.

"I have way too much respect for my opponent to feel bad for him," he said. "I know how things can change out there, how quickly. My sign of respect is putting my head down and trying to go to work."

Asked if he could grade his game, Agassi didn't flinch at giving himself an "A."

"How could you not, really?" he said. "When you play a guy of Lee's ability, playing as well as he's been playing, to go out there and have a scoreline like that doesn't happen too often."

Three seeded men were ousted in late matches: Mark Philippoussis beat 11th-seeded Paradorn Srichaphan, Guillermo Coria upset 14th-seeded Guillermo Canas in an all-Argentina encounter, and Croatia's Mario Ancic downed 16th-seeded Sjeng Schalken.

Agassi faces left-handed Frenchman Nicolas Escude, seeded 29th, in the third round. Escude, a semifinalist here in 1998, rallied for a 1-6, 6-2, 6-2, 6-4 win over Belgian Christophe Rochus.

Carlos Moya became the highest-ranked man to fall so far, slumping to American Mardy Fish 3-6, 7-6 (8), 6-4, 4-6, 6-2.

Moya, French Open champion in 1998 and the Australian runner-up in '97, was seeded fifth after a resurgent 2002.

The 21-year-old Fish broke Moya in the fifth and seventh games of the deciding set and clinched match point on the Spaniard's feeble backhand.

Fourth-seeded Juan Carlos Ferrero, who lost to Lee in the Adidas International on Saturday, reached the third round by beating Jean-Rene Lisnard 6-0, 6-4, 6-2.

Yevgeny Kafelnikov, besides Agassi the only former men's champion in the field, lost 6-3, 6-3, 3-6, 4-6, 6-1 to Finland's Jarkko Nieminen. Kafelnikov won the Australian in 1999 and was runner-up in 2000. Kafelnikov didn't advance beyond the third round at a major last year and slipped to No. 27 in the rankings.

Struggling with blisters on his toes in the third set, he rallied to level at two sets apiece. But the fifth set proved too much for him.

French Open champion Albert Costa, seeded eighth, advanced with a 6-4, 6-7 (9), 6-2, 6-3 victory over Australian wild-card Scott Draper. Costa next plays Spain's Felix Mantilla, who ousted No. 27 Jan-Michael Gambill.

No. 12 Sebastien Grosjean, a semifinalist here in 2001, beat Karol Kucera 7-6 (2), 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (1). Wayne Ferreira beat Michel Kratochvil 6-2, 6-2, 7-5.