NEW YORK -- Once the rain stopped, the routs were on Thursday.

	Andre Agassi made quick work (66 minutes) of his second-round match.

Andre Agassi got his day's work out of the way quickly. So did fellow U.S. Open men's champion Lleyton Hewitt. Even unseeded Jan-Michael Gambill produced a lopsided score, upsetting ninth-seeded Carlos Moya.

Other than Gambill's 6-3, 6-3, 6-1 victory, his first over a top-10 player in 2002, the surprises were rather limited: fourth-seeded Yevgeny Kafelnikov lost to Dominik Hrbaty, and French Open champion Albert Costa was knocked off by Wayne Ferreira.

Action didn't get under way until 4 p.m., five hours late, forcing postponement of all scheduled doubles matches and creating a logjam of stars on court.

With Agassi's wife, Steffi Graf, and 10-month-old son, Jaden, watching in the stands, he beat Justin Gimelstob 6-0, 6-1, 6-1 in 66 minutes to move into the third round. Agassi, who won the Open in 1994 and 1999, had 27 winners to six for Gimelstob.

"It's nice not to spend more (time) than you need to,'' Agassi said. "You're glad you're not him. You're glad that it's not happening to you.''

Hewitt's 7-6 (7), 6-4, 6-1 victory over Noam Okun put the defending champion into a Saturday rematch against 25th-seeded James Blake, who defeated Nikolay Davydenko 6-3, 4-6, 6-1, 6-3 to reach the third round of a major for the first time.

Hewitt beat Blake in five sets at the 2001 U.S. Open in a second-round match tainted by remarks the Australian made that were perceived as racist. Hewitt demanded that linesman Marion Johnson be removed after calling two foot faults. Blake and Johnson are black.

"Look at him, mate,'' Hewitt said to the chair umpire, referring to Johnson. "Look at him and tell me what the similarity is.'' Hewitt later said "similarity'' referred to both faults being called by Johnson.

"We put it behind us the next day in the locker room,'' said Blake, who won his first career title last week in Washington. "Since then, I don't think we've really talked about it. We just moved on.''

The losses by Kafelnikov and Costa weren't complete shockers, despite the players' rankings.

Kafelnikov, who succumbed 6-3, 6-1, 6-1 to Hrbaty, has a match record barely above .500 this year, he had lost three straight matches coming into the Open, and said he'll retire if he helps Russia win the Davis Cup this year.

And the eighth-seeded Costa, a player whose best efforts always have come on clay, simply was worn down in a 1-6, 6-7 (11), 6-4, 7-5, 6-4 marathon against Ferreira.

Agassi might be 32, but he's in fantastic shape. And he knows how to deal with a rain delay, waiting until 2:30 p.m. to show up at the National Tennis Center "so I could just keep my feet up and keep my mind off it.''

He simply dominated Gimelstob, who twice has reached the Open's third round. It took Gimelstob 39 minutes just to win a game; by then, Agassi built a 6-0, 5-0 lead.

Then, trailing 3-1 in the third set, Gimelstob bent low for a crisp forehand volley winner to erase a break point. He celebrated by raising an index finger in the air and mocking himself by yelling, "That's one! One good shot!''

Two strong service returns by Agassi later, though, produced another break.

"The whole day is a tough situation,'' Gimelstob said. "You don't know if you're going to play, definitely not going to play, you might play, you might not play. That's probably one of the other reasons why it was so brutal, but way secondary to the fact that he was playing so well.''

Indeed. Agassi had 10 winners each on forehands and backhands, never faced a break point in the match, and lost just two points on his serve in the last set.

"Did we even play out there? It went so quickly, I don't even remember,'' Gimelstob said. "We didn't get rained out?''

Sorry, Justin.