Summary Murray saved all three break points against him and broke Mahut twice.
LONDON (AP) - Top-seeded Andy Murray beat Frenchman Nicolas Mahut 6-3, 7-6 (4) on Thursday to advance to the third round of the Queen s Club grass-court tournament. The match had been suspended by rain at 2-2 in the first set on Wednesday.
Murray saved all three break points against him and broke Mahut twice. Murray will be among the top contenders at Wimbledon, which starts on June 24.
In a matchup between two former Queen s champions, Australia s Lleyton Hewitt upset sixth-seeded American Sam Querrey 5-7, 6-3, 6-4.
Querrey saved five break points in the first set but failed to convert five in the second. Hewitt won the only break point of the final set to advance to the quarterfinals.
Hewitt, a four-time Queen s winner, will play Juan Martin del Potro after the 2009 U.S. Open champion overwhelmed British wild card Daniel Evans 6-0, 6-3.
The third-seeded Argentine lost only eight points in the first set. Evans offered more of a challenge in the second but dropped serve to trail 4-2 and never recovered. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga struggled to a 6-3, 6-7 (2), 6-3 victory over Edouard Roger-Vasselin.
Defending champion Marin Cilic saved a match point before beating Spanish qualifier Feliciano Lopez 4-6, 7-6 (5), 7-5 in a contest that lasted 2 hours, 23 minutes to reach the last eight.
Lopez held a match point at 5-2 in the final set when Cilic double-faulted, but the fifth-seeded Croat swept the final five games.
American Denis Kudla reached his first ATP tour quarterfinal with a 6-1, 6-3 win over Kenny De Schepper of France.
