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  • Ginepri, Querrey lead American charge into Auckland second round

    1/12/09 4:35 PM | Ricky Dimon
    Ginepri, Querrey lead American charge into Auckland second round Americans Robby Ginepri and Sam Querrey advance at the Heineken Open on Monday with straight-set victories. Viktor Troicki joins them in round two with a win over Igor Kunitsyn.

    Sam Querrey d. Daniel King-Turner 6-4, 7-5

    New Zealand's Daniel King-Turner received a wild card into Auckland's Heineken Open, and although he went down to Sam Querrey in the first round, he made the most of it. King-Turner, ranked 463rd in the world, gave the sixth-seeded American all he could handle for one hour and 14 minutes. Querrey started to get on a roll at 3-3 in the first set, breaking for 4-3 before serving out the opening frame of play. He then broke right away in the second set, but gave it back while serving for the match at 5-4. In the end, however, Querrey's experience proved to be too much and he broke right back for 6-5. This time didn't let a chance to have the match on his racket slip away and he served it out. "He definitely played well," Querrey said of his opponent. "I was here last year and saw him then so I knew he was a dangerous player."

    Robby Ginepri d. Jose Rubin Statham 6-2, 6-3

    Querrey was joined in the second round by fellow American Robby Ginepri, who also faced a wild card from New Zealand. Jose Rubin Statham, however, did not fare quite as well as King-Turner. The 414th-ranked player in the world went down easily in the first set, as Ginepri finished things off 6-2 with his second break of the match. King-Turner recovered and even broke serve to lead 3-2 in the second, but that seemed to wake Ginepri up and the No. 51 player in the world won the last four games of the match. Ginepri could face compatriot John Isner, who qualified for the main draw, in the second round.

    Viktor Troicki d. Igor Kunitsyn 6-1, 6-2

    Viktor Troicki had already clobbered Igor Kunitsyn once in their careers, last summer in the semifinals of the Legg Mason Classic in Washington, D.C. Troicki had even less trouble on Monday, dispatching the Russian 6-1, 6-2 in just 53 minutes. The Serb broke serve twice in each set and never dropped his own serve. He fired 11 aces and saved all four of the break points he faced, two in each set. In the second round Troicki could meet Victor Hanescu, to whom he lost last week in Doha.

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