Nadal joins Murray as top seeds tumble
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June 12, 2010, Saturday
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TOP-SEEDED Rafael Nadal was beaten by fellow Spaniard Feliciano Lopez, and American Mardy Fish ended the run of defending champion Andy Murray at Queen's Club yesterday.
Nadal's grasscourt winning streak ended at 14 when he fell 6-7 (5), 4-6, the first time he has lost to Lopez since 2003.
Fish defeated third-seeded Murray 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (2) to reach the quarterfinals in a match continued from Thursday.
All of the top six seeds are out.
Murray, the third seed, was furious on Thursday evening when Fish walked off at 3-3 in the deciding set claiming the light was too poor to continue and his mood was not helped as he returned yesterday to lose.
"It wasn't particularly good, few rallies, lots of mistakes," Murray told reporters after his brief appearance on center court yesterday. "Today was a bit of a shoot-out. I played two or three bad points and lost the match."
The previous evening Murray had battled back from 0-3 down in the third and seemed to have regained the momentum when Fish packed up his rackets and walked off, leaving the Scot standing on the baseline without an opponent.
"The only reason he didn't want to play is because it's 3-3," Murray told umpire Cedric Mourier on Thursday. "Ten minutes ago when it was 3-1 he was quite happy. I have never known this before. It's ridiculous."
Murray said tournament supervisor Tom Barnes had apologized.
"I wasn't annoyed about the light so much as the fact that I wasn't consulted," Murray said.
Murray's third-round exit followed those of No. 2 Novak Djokovic, No. 4 Andy Roddick, No. 5 Marin Cilic and No. 6 Gael Monfils.
In Halle, Germany, Lleyton Hewitt became the first semifinalist at the Gerry Weber Open by beating Andreas Beck of Germany 7-6 (0), 6-1 yesterday.
Top-seeded Roger Federer eased into the quarterfinals by beating Alejandro Falla of Colombia 6-1, 6-2 on Thursday. The Swiss player needed just 52 minutes to overcome Falla, and will play Philipp Kohlschreiber after the German's 6-4, 7-5 win over Federer's compatriot Marco Chiudinelli.
Elsewhere, Maria Sharapova dispatched Kazakh qualifier Sesil Karatantcheva 6-2, 6-4 to reach the Aegon Classic semifinals in Birmingham yesterday.
Also, Kaia Kanepi of Estonia beat Michelle Larcher de Brito of Portugal) 6-2, 6-2; and top seed Li Na of China outlasted German Angelique Kerber 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 in the last eight.
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