ATLANTA: Big serving American Sam Querrey was bounced out of the Atlanta Open in the second round on Wednesday by Israel’s Dudi Sela 6-2, 6-4.
Despite notching eight aces to none and winning 86 percent of points on his first serve, ninth seed Querrey won just six of 26 second serve points to be ousted by the world No. 94.
It wasn’t the only shock of the second round with sixth seed Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan taken out by Slovakia’s world number 91 Lukas Lacko 5-7, 6-1, 6-4.
Lacko saved eight of 12 break points to catapult him towards victory as Istomin could only save one of seven.
In other second round matches fourth seed Canadian Vasek Pospisil beat qualifier Illya Marchenko of Ukraine 7-5, 6-3 to set up a date with Sela, while 21-year-old American Jack Sock took out New Zealand’s Michael Venus 6-4, 6-2 to advance to a third round encounter with Lacko.
Earlier Taiwan’s Lu Yen-Hsun, the seventh seed, completed the first round with a 6-4, 6-4 win over American Alex Kuznetsov. He faces German Benjamin Becker next.
MONACO DOWNS GARCIA-LOPEZ
GSTAAD (Switzerland): Juan Monaco of Argentina beat third-seeded Guillermo Garcia-Lopez of Spain 6-2, 2-6, 6-4 in the Swiss Open second round on Wednesday.
Argentine fifth seed Federico Delbonis was also sent packing by Brazil’s Thomaz Bellucci as the two-time former champion advanced 6-4, 6-4.
Second seed Marcel Granollers fared far better though with a comprehensive 6-1, 6-4 defeat of Swiss wild card Yann Marti while Spain’s Pablo Andujar beat Slovenian Blaz Rola 6-3, 6-3.
In a first-round match interrupted by darkness on Tuesday, Swiss wild card Henri Laaksonen defeated Gianni Mina of France 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (7-3).
BOJANOVSKI INTO QUARTERS
BAKU (Azerbaijan): Former champion Bojana Jovanovski of Serbia returned to the Baku Cup quarter-finals by beating Katarzyna Piter of Poland 6-3, 6-1 on Wednesday.
Jovanovski, the 2012 champ seeded fifth, will meet surprise Japanese qualifier Misa Eguchi on Friday.
Pauline Parmentier of France reached her first quarter-finals since 2012 after ousting eighth-seeded Jana Cepelova of Slovakia 7-6 (7-2), 6-4 in a match with 11 service breaks, and Shahar Peer of Israel, last year’s runner-up, defeated Vesna Dolonc of Serbia 3-6, 6-2, 6-3.
Published in Dawn, July 25th , 2014
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