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| Sam Querrey narrowly avoided an upset in the first round of the Great Ocean Road Open in Melbourne. File photo by Paul Bauman |
The 6-foot-6 (1.98-meter) Querrey, now based in Las Vegas, hammered 15 aces and committed five double faults.
Laaksonen reached the doubles final in the $100,000 Fairfield (Calif.) Challenger in 2018 with Harri Heliovaara of Finland.
Querrey, ranked No. 51 after climbing to a career-high No. 11 in 2018, is scheduled to play Italy's Stefano Travaglia, ranked No. 71, for the first time. Travaglia edged Roberto Carballes Baena of Spain 2-6, 7-5, 7-6 (2) on Monday.
The Australian Open, the year's first Grand Slam tournament, is scheduled for Sunday through Feb. 21 in Melbourne.
ATP Tour — Mackenzie McDonald, a 25-year-old product of Piedmont in the San Francisco Bay Area, and Tommy Paul of Delray Beach, Fla., defeated Andres Molteni of Argentina and Hugo Nys of Monaco 6-4, 6-2 in the first round of the Murray River Open in Melbourne.
Paul won the singles title in the $108,320 Tiburon (Calif.) Challenger in 2019. Tiburon is on the other side of San Francisco Bay from Piedmont.
WTA Tour — Third-seeded Ena Shibahara, 22, and Shuko Aoyama of Japan lead Ankita Raina of India and Rosalie Van Der Hoek of the Netherlands 6-2, 1-1 in the second round of the Yarra River Classic in Melbourne.
Shibahara, a 22-year-old native of Mountain View in the Bay Area, and Aoyama received a first-round bye.
UTR Pro Tennis Series — Taylor Ng, 25, of Collingswood, N.J., defeated Priya Nelson, 15, of Sacramento, Calif., 6-3, 6-1 in the final of the third-place playoff in Newport Beach, Calif.
In the fourth-place final in the $25,000 singles-only tournament, Mika Ikemori, a high school sophomore from Huntington Beach in the Los Angeles area, beat Hind Abdelouahid, a former Saint Mary's standout from nearby San Jose, 7-6 (4), 3-0, retired.
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