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Fish squirms off the hook in LA.

by on Jul.31, 2009, under Mardy Fish, Sam Querrey

Mardy-Fish-LA-Open-2009_2340973Second seed Mardy Fish saved three match points against Australia’s Chris Guccione before booking his place in the quarter-finals of the LA Open.

Guccione won the first set on a tie-break and had three chances to clinch victory in the second breaker.

However, Fish held firm and levelled matters before pushing on to win after an early break of serve in the deciding set.

He finally wrapped up a 6-7 (3/7) 7-6 (14/12) 6-4 success after two hours and 22 minutes on court.

Fish will tackle Leonardo Mayer for a place in the semis, after the Argentinian knocked out fifth-seeded Russian Igor Kunitsyn 7-6 (7/5) 6-7 (7/9) 6-3.

Elsewhere in the second round, fourth seed Dudi Sela reached the last eight with a 6-4 3-6 6-1 win over American Robert Kendrick.

Next up for the Israeli is sixth seed Sam Querrey, who beat fellow American Ryan Sweeting 6-3 6-7 6-3.

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