Holder Querrey makes smooth start at Queen's
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Querrey, who beat compatriot Mardy Fish to win the Wimbledon warm-up event last year, made few forays to the net on the pristine center court lawn but had enough power from the baseline to dominate his opponent.
The 25-year-old Spaniard, along with the other top seeds, was given a bye in the first round and will start on Wednesday against India's Somdev Devvarman or Australia's Matthew Ebden.
Nadal's French Open semi-final victim Andy Murray, seeded two at Queen's, is expected to play on home turf although he is yet to make a decision on the ankle injury sustained in Paris.
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From then on it was plain sailing, even if he seemed reluctant to sharpen up his volleys.
"Coming out the first day with the brand new grass was a little bit slippery, but it felt good," Querrey, who reached the last 16 at Wimbledon last year where he lost to Andy Murray, told reporters.
"I had a few jitters but I thought I served really well and moved well. I was pretty happy for my first grass court match of the season."
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After the early rain cleared on a chilly day in west London, Spain's Feliciano Lopez, who beat Nadal in the quarter-finals here last year, overcame Russia's Dmitry Tursunov 7-6 6-3 to set up a clash with four-times champion Andy Roddick.
Frenchman Nicolas Mahut's first singles match on London grass since last year's freakish 11-hour 183-game epic defeat by American John Isner was a rather less memorable affair.
Mahut, runner-up to Roddick in 2007, beat British junior Oliver Golding 6-3 6-4 and will face Spanish seventh seed Fernando Verdasco next.
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(Reporting by Martyn Herman; Editing by Alan Baldwin)