Del Potro gets first win in US
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February 10, 2011, Thursday
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JUAN Martin del Potro won his first match in the United States since claiming the 2009 US Open title, beating Teymuraz Gabashvili 6-3, 6-2 in the SAP Open in San Jose, California, on Tuesday.
Querrey played only six matches in 2010 because of a right wrist injury, dropping to 448 in the rankings. The Argentine has won in the first-round at each of his three tournaments this year, but lost in the second round of the previous two, including to Marcos Baghdatis at the Australian Open.
Del Potro's opponent in round two here will be Slovakia's Lukas Lacko, who earned his first career win against a top-20 player - at the 12th attempt - by beating third-seeded American Sam Querrey 7-6 (6), 6-3.
The loss by the 17th-ranked Querrey was one of three by seeded players in the first round on Tuesday. Earlier in the day, big-serving Canadian Milos Raonic upset fourth-seeded Belgian Xavier Malisse 6-3, 6-4, and sixth-seeded Benjamin Becker of Germany lost to Lithuania's Richard Berankis 6-3, 7-6 (2).
This is the third straight loss to open the year for Querrey, who lost his first match of the year in Sydney to Alexandr Dolgopolov and fell in the first round of the Australian Open to Lukasz Kubot.
The American quickly left the court as soon as the match ended and went right out of the arena without changing, refusing to do a postmatch interview despite a request from the tournament organizers.
This marked the second straight year Querrey has lost his first three matches. He ended that drought last year by making a run to the semifinals in San Jose before losing a third-set tiebreaker to Andy Roddick and winning the following week in Memphis for his first of four tournament wins.
Querrey played only six matches in 2010 because of a right wrist injury, dropping to 448 in the rankings. The Argentine has won in the first-round at each of his three tournaments this year, but lost in the second round of the previous two, including to Marcos Baghdatis at the Australian Open.
Del Potro's opponent in round two here will be Slovakia's Lukas Lacko, who earned his first career win against a top-20 player - at the 12th attempt - by beating third-seeded American Sam Querrey 7-6 (6), 6-3.
The loss by the 17th-ranked Querrey was one of three by seeded players in the first round on Tuesday. Earlier in the day, big-serving Canadian Milos Raonic upset fourth-seeded Belgian Xavier Malisse 6-3, 6-4, and sixth-seeded Benjamin Becker of Germany lost to Lithuania's Richard Berankis 6-3, 7-6 (2).
This is the third straight loss to open the year for Querrey, who lost his first match of the year in Sydney to Alexandr Dolgopolov and fell in the first round of the Australian Open to Lukasz Kubot.
The American quickly left the court as soon as the match ended and went right out of the arena without changing, refusing to do a postmatch interview despite a request from the tournament organizers.
This marked the second straight year Querrey has lost his first three matches. He ended that drought last year by making a run to the semifinals in San Jose before losing a third-set tiebreaker to Andy Roddick and winning the following week in Memphis for his first of four tournament wins.
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