Argentine clay-courter Jose Acasuso ousted second-seeded American Andy Roddick in five sets in Thursday's second-round action at the 2005 French Open. Roddick's loss left the men's draw without any Americans in the third round for a second straight year. Acasuso struck winner after winner to engineer a remarkable comeback after dropping the first two sets. The Argentine slugger wound up with a 3-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 8-6 decision after 3 hours, 21 minutes of hard-hitting tennis on Court Lenglen. Roddick also lost in the second round here a year ago, when diminutive Frenchman Olivier Mutis stunned the powerful star. Roddick took the first two sets with relative ease on a hot Day 4 in Paris, but Acasuso mounted his comeback in the third by recording his first service break of the afternoon to capture the stanza at 6-4. The world No. 62 Argentine breezed through the fourth set, setting the stage for a deciding fifth. Things were tight in the final set until Acasuso drilled a backhand winner to break Roddick and assume a 7-6 edge. The Argentine served to close out the bout, which he did with one final forehand winner. Acasuso set up his match point with a forehand smash into an open court. The 22-year-old Acasuso piled up 84 winners, including 37 on the backhand and 20 aces, while the 22-year-old 2004 Wimbledon runner-up Roddick settled for 13 aces among his 48 winners. The Argentine broke Roddick's big serve four times, while a disappointed Roddick notched three breaks in the tough setback. Nine Americans entered the field of 128 here, but all nine are gone after only four days of action at the year's second Grand Slam event. Several seeds avoided upsets, including Australian Open champion Marat Safin, 2004 French Open runner-up Guillermo Coria and 2003 Roland Garros winner Juan Carlos Ferrero. The third-seeded Safin improved to 9-0 in Grand Slam action this year by coming back to beat Czech qualifier Lukas Dlouhy 6-7 (6-8), 6-3, 7-5, 6-1. Safin's third-round opponent will be the former Roland Garros titlist and former world No. 1 Ferrero. An eighth-seeded Coria got past injured Novak Djokovic 4-6, 6-2, 3-2, as the Serb retired in the third set due to an illness. Coria lost to fellow Argentine Gaston Gaudio in last year's French Open final and was a finalist at the recent clay-court Masters Series tournaments in Monte-Carlo and Rome, where he succumbed to hot Spaniard Rafael Nadal in a pair of finals. Up next for the speedy Coria will be dangerous Austrian lefthander Jurgen Melzer. The 32nd-seeded Ferrero, seeking his third trip to the final here in four years, waltzed past Czech Jan Hernych 6-4, 6-4, 6-2. Ferrero titled here two years ago and was the 2002 runner-up to his fellow Spaniard Albert Costa. In other top-16 action, No. 9 Argentine Guillermo Canas handled Spaniard Albert Montanes 6-1, 6-3, 6-4, No. 12 Russian Nikolay Davydenko overcame Belgian Olivier Rochus 3-6, 7-5, 6-2, 6-3 and No. 15 Spaniard Tommy Robredo routed big Belgian Dick Norman 6-4, 6-2, 6-4. Davydenko has won his last seven matches, having titled on red clay in Austria last week. Other seeded winners on Day 4 were No. 21 German Tommy Haas, No. 27 Italian Filippo Volandri and No. 28 German Nicolas Kiefer. Haas got past injured American Vincent Spadea 6-4, 6-3, as Spadea retired with a back injury, while Kiefer stopped French crowd favorite Arnaud Clement in five sets. Mild upsets came when Spaniard David Sanchez dropped No. 19 Swede Thomas Johansson 6-3, 3-6, 4-6, 7-6 (7-4), 6-4 and Melzer dropped 29th-seeded Russian Mikhail Youzhny 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (7-5). Johansson was the Aussie Open champion in 2002. Additional second-round wins came for Russian Igor Andreev, Frenchman Paul- Henri Mathieu, Argentine Mariano Puerta and Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka, who outlasted American James Blake in five sets. The third round will commence Friday, including matches for world No. 1 Roger Federer, the sizzling Nadal and the reigning Roland Garros champion Gaudio. The U.S. Open and two-time defending Wimbledon titlist Federer will battle 25th-seeded Chilean strongman Fernando Gonzalez, while the fourth-seeded Nadal will face 30th-seeded Frenchman and fellow 18-year-old Richard Gasquet and the fifth-seeded Gaudio will encounter Spanish veteran Felix Mantilla. Other interesting matchups will pit 10th-seeded Argentine David Nalbandian against 18th-seeded Croat Mario Ancic, 14th-seeded Carlos Moya versus fellow Spaniard Fernando Vicente and 16th-seeded Czech Radek Stepanek against 23rd- seeded French favorite Sebastien Grosjean. Nalbandian was a semifinalist here a year ago, while the former world No. 1 Moya was the 1998 winner in Paris.