Raonic and Tomic ease way into final 16
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Milos Raonic and Bernard Tomic had straight-sets wins while Sam Querrey needed a long third-set tiebreaker on Tuesday to move into the last 16 at the Citi Open in Washington DC.
Canadian Raonic, seeded fourth, beat qualifier Sam Groth 7-5, 6-4 while Groth’s Australian compatriot Tomic breezed past Belgian David Goffin 6-1, 6-3.
It was a far tougher assignment for American Querrey, who edged Uzbek Denis Istomin 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (9).
“It was stressful out there,” said Querrey, who began his post-match news conference with a hearty yawn. “Just happy to get through it.”
Querrey’s opponent in the round-of-16 will be Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov, who defeated Belgian veteran Xavier Malisse 7-6 (4), 6-4.
One seeded player who will be going no further is Ukraine’s Alexandr Dolgopolov, who was beaten 6-3, 7-6 (4) by India’s Somdev Devvarman.
In first-round matches, former world No. 1 Lleyton Hewitt lost 6-3, 7-5 to America’s Ryan Harrison and local wildcard Jack Sock beat Croatia’s Igor Sijsling 6-4, 6-2, setting up a second-round clash with second-seeded Kei Nishikori of Japan.
On the women’s side, top-seeded Angelique Kerber cruised past Irina Falconi 6-2, 6-3 in the first round.
Kerber will face the winner of Melanie Oudin and Anastasia Rodionova in the next round.
In Carlsbad, California, Carla Suarez Navarro used a strong return game for a 6-4, 6-3 win over Sachie Ishizu in the first round of the Southern California Open on Tuesday.
The eighth-seeded Spaniard took advantage of Ishizu’s serve by breaking her on both opportunities in the first set, then breaking her serve four more times in the second to advance.
British teenage sensation Laura Robson beat Japan’s Ayumi Morita, 4-6, 7-5, 6-2.
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