WASHINGTON -- Even before Ryan Harrison broke his racket by spiking it on the Citi Open court or screamed "Oh, my God!" in exasperation, top-seeded Juan Martin del Potro was feeling pretty good about the way things were going Thursday. And they kept improving for the 2009 U.S. Open champion. Back in action after nearly a month off, del Potro won twice in a span of about 7 1/2 hours to reach the Citi Open quarterfinals. Del Potro started by winning a rain-postponed match against 107th-ranked American Harrison 6-1, 7-5, then returned to the court under the lights at night to defeat 14th-seeded Bernard Tomic of Australia 6-3, 6-3. Each lasted about 70 minutes. "Really good day," del Potro said, smiling as he leaned back in his chair and stretched out his legs. "The match against Tomic was a little better than the first one." Del Potro, who received a first-round bye, is 11-1 at the hard-court tournament in Washington, where he won titles in 2008 and 2009. The Argentine, No. 7 in the ATP rankings, hadnt competed since July 5, when he was eliminated in five sets by No. 1 Novak Djokovic in 4 hours, 43 minutes, the longest semifinal in Wimbledon history. "I was training hard before coming here," said del Potro, who will face No. 7-seeded Kevin Anderson, also a winner twice Thursday. Anderson eliminated James Duckworth 6-3, 3-6, 6-4, then beat Mardy Fish of the United States 7-6 (2), 6-1. Before that match finished, Fishs withdrawal from next weeks tournament in Montreal was announced; the event said he pulled out for personal reasons. "Its hard for me, right now, to come out and just play every single week," said Fish, who has missed time the past two seasons while dealing with a heart condition. "I still know I have a long ways to go to get back to where Id like to be and where I was, maybe, 12 months ago," he added. The other mens quarterfinals are No. 8 John Isner against No. 16 Marcos Baghdatis, No. 3 Tommy Haas against No. 11 Grigor Dimitrov, and Marinko Matosevic against Dmitry Tursunov. Matosevic beat No. 4 Milos Raonic of Canada 7-5, 7-6 (7); Baghdatis surprised No. 2 Kei Nishikori of Japan 6-1, 6-2; the 35-year-old Haas finished off a second-round match suspended overnight in the third set, then also won Thursdays last match, 6-4, 4-6, 7-5 against No. 13 Ivan Dodig, wrapping it up after midnight. Del Potro said his left knee felt fine; he wasnt wearing any sort of wrap the way he did at the All England Club after hyperextending it on a fall during a match. "You never know" how the knee will hold up, said del Potros coach, Franco Davin. "For now, its OK." Harrison was ranked inside the top 50 last season and is widely seen as the next top American male player. "He has good potential. He serves well. He plays well on hard courts. But sometimes he looks young," said del Potro, who was a couple of weeks shy of his 21st birthday when he won the U.S. Open. "Hes still 21. He needs to learn a few things to become a better player in the future." Harrison trailed 4-0 after only 11 minutes. Both men hit serves at the considerable speed of 130 mph, but the difference was that once the ball was in play, del Potros groundstrokes were far more consistent. "Sometimes you go out there and for whatever reason, its not feeling as well as you want it to," said Harrison, 0-18 against top-10 players. "The best guys, whenever they see someones off, they just press you, and they just make you feel like youre under duress all the time." After pushing a forehand long to get broken at 3-0, Harrison smashed his equipment, earning a warning from the chair umpire for racket abuse. During a particularly rough stretch from late in the first set to early in the second, Harrison dropped 13 consecutive points, a drought that ended right after he dumped a backhand in the net, looked to the sky and yelled. From there, he played evenly against del Potro, until getting broken in the last game. Del Potro thinks Harrisons histrionics help foes. "Its easier for us, because we ... (see) our opponent really, really low," del Potro said. Three other American men joined Harrison on the way out: No. 6-seeded Sam Querrey, Jack Sock and Tim Smyczek. In womens action, the only seeded player to lose was No. 8 Madison Keys of the United States, who failed to convert two match points and bowed out against Monica Niculescu 6-1, 2-6, 7-6 (6). The womens quarterfinals are No. 1-seeded Angelique Kerber vs. No. 7 Magdalena Rybarikova, No. 3 Ekaterina Makarova vs. Niculescu, No. 4 Alize Cornet vs. Sorana Cirstea, and Andrea Petkovic vs. Paula Ormaechea. 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The Goldeyes dropped that game 2-1. “They were two good baseball games,” said Goldeyes manager “(Champion) gave us all we could handle, but we got some solid at-bats and timely hitting. The pitching was good all day and Salamida gave us a great start.” The Goldeyes started the scoring in the third inning. Fehlandt Lentini began the inning with a single and a stolen base. He would be driven in on a Tyler Graham single to give Winnipeg an early 1-0 lead. They would add another run in the next inning when Ray Sadler hit an opposite field solo home run. It was Sadlers team-leading 16th of the season and his sixth as a member of the Goldeyes. Winnipeg would break it open in the fifth with a pair of runs. Amos Ramon started it off with an run scoring chopper that bounced past a drawn in Sioux Falls infield. Then, with the bases loaded, Sadler picked up another RBI on a sacrifice fly that scored Ramon. 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The Goldeyes were held to one run on only three hits as the Fish fell 2-1 to the Canaries in a game that was completed on Sunday afternoon after the first 3 1/2 innings were played in the rain on Saturday night. Sioux Falls had a 1-0 lead heading into Sunday afternoon after Nick Van Stratten singled home Anthony Trajano in the top of the third. The Canaries extended the lead to 2-0 when Stephen King scored on a Cory Morales single. Winnipeg cut the lead to 2-1 in the fifth when Luis Alen walked, went to second on a single by Fehlandt Lentini, went to third on a sacrifice bunt by Tyler Graham and scored on a ground out by Amos Ramon. But that was it. Kyle Vazquez, Jordan Whatcott, Chris Allen and Alan DeRatt combined to hold Winnipeg to only three singles and put a halt to the Goldeyes four-game winning streak. Whatcott (1-6, 5.89 ERA) was the winning pitcher for the Canaries while Pete Gehle (4-6, 4.71 ERA) suffered the loss for Winnipeg. DeRatt (2.97 ERA) picked up his 18th save of the year. ' ' '
