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American Sam Querrey is into the final of the Heineken Open tennis after a comeback 3-6 6-3 7-6 victory over second seed David Ferrer.
Querrey lost the first set and broke Ferrer when the Spaniard was serving for the match in the third set to win 7-4 in the third set tiebreak.
Ferrer showed his trademark speed around the court and retrieving skills, and appeared likely to overcome Querrey, whose first serve percentage was well down on what it was in his quarterfinal victory over Nicolas Almagro yesterday.
But Querrey produced the goods when it mattered and did not lose a point on his serve in the tiebreaker.
Games went with serve until the eighth game of the first set, when a Querrey double fault gave the Spaniard a break and he converted his second set point the next game.
Querrey came out firing in the second set and broke Ferrer in the fourth game, prompting the usually calm second seed to earn a warning for smashing his racket twice.
Ferrer broke back in the seventh game but Querrey broke again in the eighth, and fired two aces when successfully serving for the set.
The third set looked to be going Ferrer's way for most of the set. He broke in the second game and though broken in the third, Ferrer broke again in the fourth.
But Ferrer could not hold his serve in the ninth game of the last set and was unable to cope with Querrey's serve in the tiebreak.
Querrey, the sixth seed, will play either Juan Martin Del Potro of Argentina or Robin Soderling of Sweden in the final.
- NZPA
