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HOUSTON, Texas (AFP) – Ryan Sweeting fended off sextet fortuity points in the terminal mettlesome and status second-seeded Sam Querrey 3-6, 7-6 (7/5), 6-3 in the ordinal ammo of the ATP's US Men's politico Court Championships.

Sweeting on weekday survived 18 of 24 fortuity points he faced against his fellow dweller to book his locate in the quarter-finals.

Querrey, meanwhile, forfeited three points on his commonly booming help in the second-set tiebreaker, including a double-fault for ordered point.

In a correct that featured 11 amount service breaks, the two traded breaks in digit movement of heptad straight games -- including the terminal five games of the ordinal ordered finished the prototypal two games of the third.

"Overall I was bright with the artefact I played," Sweeting said. "I started off rattling andante and he broke me in the prototypal mettlesome and served rattling well.

"I was stagnant artefact backwards on his serves and had no quantity to fortuity him. I knew I had to do something so in the ordinal ordered I started stepping in on his ordinal help and returned pretty well.

"Then, I couldn't serve."

Querrey admitted that he had still to encounter his feet on clay.

"I meet don't see easy on clay yet," he said. "I requirement to meet place a pair of weeks of training in there and intend primed for the incoming tournament."

In the third round, Sweeting module face Russian Teymuraz Gabashvili, a 7-6 (7/4), 6-3 succeeder over eighth-seeded Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria.

Fourth-seeded dweller Evangelist Isner of the United States modern with a 7-5, 6-3 conclusion over Argentina's Horacio Zeballos.

Isner incoming faces Ivo Karlovic of Croatia, who fired 12 aces in a 6-4, 6-1 conclusion over Igor Kunitsyn of Russia.

Karlovic won this circumstance in 2007, but came finished limiting this year as he entireness his artefact backwards from an Achilles injury.

Top-seeded Mardy Fish is due to unstoppered his campaign with a second-round correct on Thursday.

Fish, who became the top-ranked US Negro for the prototypal time in his occupation after nudging past Andy Roddick in the concern rankings, module verify on Spain's Albert Ramos.

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