Isner wins, Roddick ousted in NC
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WINSTON-SALEM, NC (AP)
Defending champion John Isner overcame two rain delays to advance in straight sets, while Andy Roddick was eliminated from the Winston-Salem Open on Wednesday.
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The fifth-seeded Roddick, a former world No. 1 player now ranked 21st, fell to 81st-ranked Steve Darcis of Belgium 7-6 (8-6), 7-6 (7-3), in the final hard-court tournament before the US Open next week in New York.
Isner, born in nearby Greensboro, will face Belgium's David Goffin in a quarterfinal match Thursday. Goffin held off Poland's Lukasz Kubot 6-3, 1-6, 7-6 (7-5).
Yet getting on the court proved to be a challenge for Isner and Melzer — their match was pushed back by a nearly two-hour rain delay, then delayed an additional 45 minutes when it rained again during warmups.
However, Isner didn't show any signs of sluggishness, serving 14 aces — two coming on second serves — and breaking Melzer's serve twice in beating the left-hander for the first time in three tries.
''It's never easy playing at night, and the rain made it more difficult,'' Isner said. ''But I played well. I served well, and I hit my second serve especially well. All in all, I'm very happy with the match, and very happy I'm still alive.''
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FOXSports.com serves up the latest from the tennis world:Roddick had 13 aces, but the 2003 US Open champion struggled to find consistency with his ground strokes and Darcis' short game, whose drop shots caught Roddick flat-footed several times.
''I did not expect this,'' Darcis said. ''When I came here, I was not playing so good. But I had two good first matches, and here I play very good tennis. ... OK, Andy didn't play his best tennis, but for me it's a great win, especially before the US Open.''
Roddick smashed his racket after losing the first set, and argued with chair umpire Carlos Bernardes on a let serve call early in the second set.
''I served Ok, but I didn't return too well and I wasn't hitting the ball clean out there today,'' said Roddick, who had beaten Darcis in two previous meetings. ''If I don't lose serve, I should do fine, and I didn't. That just speaks to how far off the rest of my game was today.''
Darcis will play second-seeded Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic, who beat Jarkko Nieminen of Finland 6-3, 6-2.
Top-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France also advanced to the quarterfinals along with fourth-seeded Alexandr Dolgopolov of the Ukraine, sixth-seeded Marcel Granollers of Spain, and seventh-seeded Sam Querrey.
Tsonga defeated Sergiy Stakhowsky of the Ukraine 7-6 (7-1), 6-4; Dolgopolov beat No. 14 David Nalbandian of Argentina 6-3, 6-4; Granollers rallied to beat Latvia's Ernests Gulbis 4-6, 6-3, 6-2; and Querrey edged ninth-seeded Feliciano Lopez of Spain 6-3, 6-4.
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