Sports | US Open Nadal Prevails in Tough US Open Match Hard-serving Querrey fights back to test world's no.1 player By Neal Colgrass Posted Sep 1, 2008 6:17 PM CDT Copied Rafael Nadal, of Spain, celebrates a point during 6-2, 5-7, 7-6 (2), 6-3 win over Sam Querrey, of the United States, at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, Monday, Sept. 1, 2008. (AP Photo) Rafael Nadal overcame feisty American Sam Querrey today in a grueling fourth-round US Open match, 6-2, 5-7, 7-6 (7-2), 6-3. Nadal was cruising 6-2, 4-2 when Querrey rallied to take the second set and lead in the third. But Nadal recovered, easily winning the third-set tiebreaker and claiming victory despite 20 aces from the hard-serving Querrey. Now 42-1 over his last 43 matches, top-seeded Nadal moves on to another tough-serving American, Mardy Fish. Unseeded Fish landed in his first US Open quarterfinal match by toppling 32nd-seed French player Gael Monfils 7-5, 6-2, 6-2 today, the Sports Network reports. Read These Next Giuliani injured in high-speed highway crash. Iran's leaders ditched their phones. Their bodyguards didn't. It's an unexpected footnote in the life of Buford Pusser. A game of doorbell ditch turns fatal for 11-year-old. Report an error