Tennis: Isner reaches quarter-finals

NEWPORT: Top-seeded John Isner won through to the quarter-finals of the $500,000 Hall of Fame Championships by beating France’s Arnaud Clement in straight sets. Isner took the second-round match 7-6, 6-4 by winning 80 per cent of his first serve points. “When I get off to an early break, that’s when I feel like I’m in control,” he said. “I feel like I play my best when I’m ahead. It didn’t happen in the first set, but it did in the second.” Isner will next face American compatriot Alex Bogomolov in the semi-finals.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 8^th, 2011.