London: Australia's Lleyton Hewitt upset American Sam Querrey 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 Thursday at the Queen's Club grass-court tournament. In a matchup between two former Queen's champions, the 19th-ranked Querrey saved five break points in the first set but failed to convert five in the second. The 82nd-ranked Hewitt won the only break point of the final set to advance to the quarterfinals.
Top-seeded Andy Murray beat Frenchman Nicolas Mahut 6-3, 7-6 (4) to advance to the third round. The match had been suspended by rain at 2-2 in the first set on Wednesday. Murray saved all three break points and broke Mahut twice. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga struggled to a 6-3, 6-7 (2), 6-3 victory over Edouard Roger-Vasselin.
Defending champion Marin Cilic saved a match point before cruising past Spanish qualifier Feliciano Lopez 4-6, 7-6 (5), 7-5. Lopez held a match point at 5-2 in the final set when Cilic double-faulted, but he couldn't capitalize. The fifth-seeded Croat swept the final five games. American Denis Kudla reached his first ATP tour quarterfinal with a 6-1, 6-3 win over Kenny De Schepper of France.
Hewitt, a four-time Queen's winner, will play Juan Martin del Potro after the 2009 U.S. Open champion topped British wild card Daniel Evans 6-0, 6-3. The third-seeded Argentine lost only eight points in the first set. Del Potro returned to competition after a respiratory virus caused him to miss the French Open....
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10:51 PM, Jun 13, 2013
London: Sam Querrey earned his 200th career singles victory by beating Aljaz Bedene of Slovenia 7-6 (11), 5-7, 7-6 (5) in a rain-interrupted match at the Queen's Club grass-court tournament on Tuesday. The sixth-seeded American saved a match point in the third set before winning the second-round contest, which endured four rain delays and took more than five hours to complete. Bedene fell heavily while hitting a cross-court forehand winner...
11:23 PM, Jun 11, 2013
Paris: Roger Federer swept qualifier Pablo Carreno Busta on Sunday in the first round of the French Open, 6-2, 6-2, 6-3. Playing at Roland Garros for the 15th year in a row, Federer earned a big roar from the center court crowd after he closed out the victory with a picturesque backhand winner. Federer lost only seven points on his first serve and was broken just once by Carreno Busta....
08:09 PM, May 26, 2013
Nice, France: Second-seeded Gilles Simon of France and third-seeded Sam Querrey of the United States were eliminated in the quarterfinals of the Open de Nice on Thursday. Spaniards Alberto Montanes and Pablo Andujar and Frenchmen Gael Monfils and Edouard Roger-Vasselin reached the last four. Wild-card entry Roger-Vasselin beat Querrey 3-6, 7-6 (2), 6-1. The Frenchman broke Querrey twice in the final set to lead 5-1 before converting his first match...
08:54 AM, May 24, 2013
Boise, Idaho: Even an ankle injury couldn't stop world No. 1 Novak Djokovic from dominating Sam Querrey 7-5, 6-7 (4), 6-1, 6-0 to give Serbia an insurmountable 3-1 lead in this Davis Cup quarterfinal at the Taco Bell Arena on Sunday. At 1-1, 30-40 and a second breakpoint opportunity on Querrey's serve, the world No. 1 twisted his right ankle off a forehand and fell to the ground. Wincing in...
08:21 AM, Apr 08, 2013
Third-seeded Sam Querrey of the US double-faulted on the last two points of the third-set tiebreaker to lose to qualifier Ernests Gulbis of Latvia 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (4) at the Delray Beach International Championships on Thursday. ...
12:06 PM, Mar 01, 2013
2nd match between Xavier Malisse and Daniel Munoz-De La Nava was level at 2-2 in the first set when rain stopped play. ...
09:37 AM, Feb 28, 2013
Third-seeded Sam Querrey moved into the second round of the Delray Beach International Tennis Championships when fellow American Michael Russell retired with a left leg injury while trailing 6-2, 2-2 Monday. ...
09:46 AM, Feb 26, 2013
Denis Istomin took advantage a sluggish John Isner to eliminate the third-seeded American 6-4, 6-3. ...
09:42 AM, Feb 20, 2013
John Isner produced 32 aces as he beat Thiago Alves while Sam Querrey hit 15 aces to brush aside Thomaz Bellucci. ...
08:45 AM, Feb 02, 2013
Sam Querrey's booming serve carried him past long-time rival Jesse Levine 6-4, 7-6 (5) on Thursday and into the semi-finals of the Heineken Open. ...
11:05 AM, Jan 10, 2013
Ferrer rallied to beat Taiwan's Lu Yen-hsun 6-4, 2-6, 6-3 in a hard-fought match to advance to the quarter-finals. ...
04:02 PM, Jan 09, 2013
Fourth-seeded Querrey beat Belgian wild card Olivier Rochus 7-5, 6-3. ...
12:45 PM, Jan 09, 2013
Paris: World number two Novak Djokovic was knocked out in the second round of the Paris Masters after slumping to a 0-6 7-6 6-4 defeat against American Sam Querrey on Wednesday. Serbia's Djokovic, who will replace Swiss Roger Federer as the world number one next Monday, breezed through the opening set before losing control. Querrey was trailing 2-0 in the second set but dramatically improved after bagging his first game...
10:24 PM, Oct 31, 2012
Valencia: David Ferrer cruised to an easy 6-4, 6-2 victory over fellow Spaniard Albert Ramos to reach the quarter-finals of the Valencia Open on Thursday. Ferrer, seeded No. 1 at the indoor tournament, used an effective serve plus four breaks of his 47th-ranked opponent in a much easier match after a labored first-round victory. The fifth-ranked Spaniard next faces Nicolas Almagro, who defeated American Sam Querrey 6-4, 6-7 (4), 6-0....
02:33 PM, Oct 26, 2012
Shanghai: Tenth-seeded Marin Cilic of Croatia moved into the second round of the Shanghai Masters on Monday with a 7-5, 6-3 win over Lukasz Kubot of Poland. Cilic hit eight aces and broke Kubot four times to wrap up the win in 1 hour, 33 minutes. American Sam Querrey also advanced with a 6-3, 6-1 win over Chinese wild-card entry Li Zhe. The 22nd-ranked Querrey jumped out to a quick...
04:07 PM, Oct 08, 2012
Gijon, Spain: David Ferrer and Nicolas Almagro maintained their near-perfect clay court records in the Davis Cup to give Spain a commanding 2-0 lead over the United States in their semi-final. Ferrer put the hosts ahead in the best-of-five series with a 4-6, 6-2, 6-2, 6-4 win over Sam Querrey before Almagro beat John Isner 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 to leave the defending champions one point away from their...
11:53 PM, Sep 14, 2012
New York: American Sam Querrey won his first-round match in four sets in his return to the US Open. The 27th-seeded Querrey beat Yen-hsun Lu of Taiwan 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-4, 7-5 in just over 3 hours on Tuesday. He missed the tournament last year because of right elbow surgery. Querrey reached the round of 16 at Flushing Meadows in his previous appearance in 2010 to match his best Grand...
03:23 AM, Aug 29, 2012
