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3/27/09 2:13 AM | Ricky Dimon
Sam Querrey erases Gilles Muller in the first round of the Sony Ericsson Open on Thursday afternoon. Next up for Querrey is Feliciano Lopez.
Sam Querrey did not need his serve for once to pocket a victory. In a matchup of big servers, Querrey prevailed in routine 6-4, 6-3 fashion despite putting in less than half of his first deliviers.
It helped that Muller also struggled on serve. The 25-year-old Luxembourgian surrendered a break early in the first set and that proved to be enough for Querrey, who won all 13 of his first-serve points in the opening frame of play. Querrey, despite not making a high percentage of first serves, fired seven aces and did not face a break point.
The 6'6'' American connected on a dismal 38 percent of his first offerings in set two, but he overcame it by saving two break points. Muller's serve also never came around, and Querrey broke twice more, the second of which finished off the match in one hour and six minutes.
Querrey finished with two-double faults and nine aces--a modest ace count by his standards. The performance was good enough to earn the 47th-ranked player in the world a second-round date with No. 32 seed Feliciano Lopez. Lopez leads their head-to-head series 1-0, but the only meeting came in a dead Davis Cup rubber last fall on the clay courts of Spain.
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