NEWPORT (Rhode Island), July 9 American Sam Querrey breezed to a 6-3, 6-2 win over Spain's Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo in the first round of the rain-plagued 500,000 ATP Hall of Fame Tennis Championships on Wednesday.

Third seeded Querrey advanced on a day when rains and then a lack of light forced a number of matches to be suspended.

Germany's Philipp Petzschner also advanced by beating Horacio Zeballos of Argentina, 6-4, 6-7 (4-7), 6-2, and Nicolas Mahut, of France, beat American Amer Delic 6-4, 6-4.

Fifth-seeded Frenchman Arnaud Clement was upset by unseeded American Alex Bogomolov 1-6, 6-3, 6-4.
Other matches which were started but halted are seventh-seeded Kevin Kim leading France's Sebastien Grosjean 6-4 heading to the second set; Samuel Groth leads Ricardo Mello 7-5, 0-3.

Results (prefix number denotes seeding)

First round 3-Sam Querrey (US) bt Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo (Spain) 6-3, 6-2; 6-Philipp Petzschner (Germany) bt Horacio Zeballos (Argentina) 6-4, 6-7 (4-7), 6-2; Alex Bogomolov Jr (US) bt 5-Arnaud Clement (France) 1-6, 6-3, 6-4; Nicolas Mahut (France) bt Amer Delic (US) 6-4, 6-4.

WOZNIACKI INTO QUARTERS

BASTAD (Sweden) Top-seeded Caroline Wozniacki breezed past Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic 6-4, 6-2 on Wednesday to reach the Swedish Open quarter-finals.

The ninth-ranked Dane, who has not dropped a set in the clay-court tournament, will face Maria Kirilenko next. Kirilenko beat sixth-seeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-2, 6-3.

Gisela Dulko of Argentina outlasted Sorana Cirstea of Romania 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (5).

Results

Second round 2-Dominika Cibulkova (Slovakia) bt Nuria Llagostera Vives (Spain) 6-1, 6-1; 1-Caroline Wozniacki (Denmark) bt Petra Kvitova (Czech Republic) 6-4, 6-2; Maria Kirilenko (Russia) bt 6-Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Russia) 6-2, 6-3; 7-Carla Suarez Navarro (Spain) bt Ellen Allgurin (Sweden) 6-1, 6-4; Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez (Spain) bt Angelique Kerber (Germany) 6-3, 6-2; Gisela Dulko (Argentina) bt 5-Sorana Cirstea (Romania) 6-3, 4-6, 7-6(5); 3-Flavia Pennetta (Italy) bt Masa Zec Peskiric (Slovenia) 6-1, 6-2; Alla Kudryavtseva (Russia) bt 8-Iveta Benesova (Czech Republic) 6-2, 6-4.

CORNET STUNNED

BUDAPEST (Hungary) Shahar Peer of Israel upset defending champion Alize Cornet of France in straight sets in the second round of the $220,000 Budapest GDF Suez Grand Prix in Budapest on Wednesday.
Peer jumped ahead 5-1 in the first set before losing her serve, but did not allow Cornet much of a comeback and quickly closed out the set 6-2. The second set was even more lopsided and ended 6-0.

Results

Second round Edina Gallovits (Romania) bt 3-Sybille Bammer (Austria) 4-6, 7-5, 6-2; Shahar Peer (Israel) bt 2-Alize Cornet (France) 6-2, 6-0; Petra Martic (Croatia) bt Mariya Koryttseva (Ukraine) 6-3, 6-2; 6-Alona Bondarenko (Ukraine) bt Raluca Olaru (Romania) 6-4, 4-6, 6-4.

First round 1-Patty Schnyder (Switzerland) bt Andrea Petkovic (Germany) 7-6(3), 6-3.—Agencies