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Querrey wins, Stephens shocked

SAM Querrey made a triumphant start to his first event since stunning top-ranked Novak Djokovic at Wimbledon, rallying on Tuesday to reach the third round of the ATP-WTA Citi Open in Washington.

The 28-year-old American outlasted compatriot Bjorn Fratangelo 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-4, avenging a first-round French Open loss in May and spoiling his rival’s 23rd birthday in the first hardcourt event on the road to the US Open.

“Even without the Novak win, it would have been tough,” Querrey said. “It was one of those matches you have to fight through and I’m happy I fought through the way I did.”

Eighth seed Querrey downed Djokovic in the third round on Wimbledon grass, ending the Serb’s 30-match major win streak on his way to his first career grand slam quarterfinal after 10 years of trying, where he lost to Canada’s Milos Raonic.

“I feel the same, maybe a little cooler,” Querrey said. “I’m confident. Beating Novak or not, I’m feeling confident.”

Next up for Querrey is Ukrainian 11th seed Alexandr Dolgopolov, who edged Australian Jordan Thompson 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (4).

On the women’s side, Japan’s Risa Ozaki beat second-seeded defending champion Sloane Stephens 6-2, 6-1. The 136th-ranked Asian standout needed only 56 minutes to rout the 23rd-ranked American.

“I would say (it was) all me. She played a solid match but I helped a lot,” Stephens said. “It just sucks. One of those days. It was really bad. Hopefully I just pull myself together and do better next week.”

Fifth-seeded Eugenie Bouchard was upset by Italy’s Camila Giorgi, 7-5, 6-4, marking the fourth time in the Canadian’s past 10 tournaments that she lost her opening match. She most recently reached the round of 32 at Wimbledon before losing to Dominika Cibulkova.

Puerto Rican third seed Monica Puig outfought France’s Oceane Dodin 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 to advance. She could face Aussie top seed Samantha Stosur in the semifinals.

“I don’t like to think that way,” Puig said. “In reality I’m still one of the up and comers. I don’t think I’m one of the favorites.”

In Sanford, California, Americans Alison Riske and 17-year-old wildcard CiCi Bellis each upset a ranked opponent on Tuesday at the Bank of the West Classic.

Bellis was down a break in the second set but rallied to beat sixth seed Jelena Ostapenko of Estonia 6-4, 6-4 for her first win over the year on the WTA tour.

Riske came back to oust No. 8-seeded compatriot Varvara Lepchenko 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (4), a semifinalist here in the last two years. Riske won five straight games in the second set and the first three points of the third-set tiebreaker.

Poles Urszula Radwanska and Magda Linette won afternoon matches and each will face an opponent with a first-round bye. Radwanska goes up against second-seeded Slovak Cibulkova and Linette faces top-seeded Venus Williams.




 

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