Baghdatis fired 11 aces and had the same number of winners in advancing to his fifth quarter-final of the year.
He’ll next play sixth-seeded Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia, who beat Somdev Devvarman of India 7-6 (11), 6-2.
Rainer Schuettler of Germany outlasted American Robby Ginepri 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 in their first meeting since 2003.
■SWISS OPEN
AP, GSTAAD, Switzerland
Seeded players Albert Montanes and Richard Gasquet each rallied from a set down to win on Wednesday.
Fourth-seeded Montanes from Spain, who is seeking a third title on outdoor clay courts this season, beat Austrian qualifier Andreas Haider-Maurer 3-6, 6-1, 6-0.
No. 7 Gasquet from France held serve throughout his second-round match on Wednesday to beat Daniel Brands of Germany 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-0.
In a match between unseeded players, Spain’s Daniel Gimeno-Traver had a 7-5, 6-4 win against Andreas Beck of Germany.
Gimeno-Traver next faces Igor Andreev of Russia or Switzerland’s Marco Chiudinelli, whose match was suspended by darkness with the score 6-6 in the third set.
Andreev won the first set 6-3, wasted a match point in the second set tiebreaker and lost serve when leading 5-3 in the decider.
■CROATIA OPEN
AP, UMAG, Croatia
Defending champion Nikolay Davydenko beat Stephane Robert of France 6-1, 6-2 to advance to the quarter-finals on Wednesday.
The top-seeded Russian will meet Juan Ignacio Chela of Argentina, who defeated Italian qualifier Simone Bolelli 7-6 (5), 6-7 (4), 6-1.
Juan Carlos Ferrero, last year’s finalist, downed Pablo Cuevas of Uruguay 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 for his 25th clay-court victory of the season, including two titles.
The former No. 1 will play Alexandr Dolgopolov of Ukraine, who beat Croatian wild card Franco Skugor 7-6 (1), 6-3.
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