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LAS VEGAS, Nevada: Unseeded American Sam Querrey captured his first
career ATP title on Sunday, beating South African qualifier Kevin
Anderson in three sets to win this $500,000 hardcourt tournament.
Querrey, ranked 66th in the world, fired 12 aces
en route to a 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 victory over the 175th-ranked Anderson.
Querrey, 20, bettered his match record to 12-6
this year and became the second American to capture an ATP title in
2008.
The other is Andy Roddick, who won in San Jose
last month and Dubai on Saturday.
I started playing better as the match went
on, said Querrey, who broke Anderson to lead 5-3 in the second
set and in the fifth game of the third.
It takes a little time to get into rhythm
against a guy who hits it so hard and heavy. He was just bombing it
in there.
Querrey reached his first career final with a
7-5, 6-2 semifinal victory over fourth-seeded Guillermo Canas of
Argentina.
In February, Japanese teenager Kei Nishikori won
the title in Delray Beach as a qualifier. Last week, lucky loser
Sergiy Stakhovsky of the Ukraine captured his first career crown in
Zagreb.
-- AFP
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