It was a mixed day for the seeded players at the BB&T Atlanta Open. 2009 U.S Open Series champion and ninth seed Sam Querrey was upset by Dudi Sela 6-2, 6-4. The Israeli’s return game was too good for Querrey who managed only 53 percent of his first serves in and could only stand by and watch as Sela won 77 percent of points on his second serve.
The other upset seed was sixth seeded Denis Istomin who was beaten 5-7, 6-1, 6-4 by 91st ranked Lukas Lacko in a context that saw ten breaks of serve.
Seeds who did make it through to the last eight were Vasek Pospisil (4), who beat Illya Marchenko 7-5, 6-3, and Yen-Hsun Lu (7) who beat American Alex Kuznetsov 6-4, 6-4.
Jack Sock also made it through to his fifth ATP quarter-final of 2014 when he beat 349th ranked Michael Venus 6-4, 6-2. Sock will face Lacko in the next round.
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