London, England (Sports Network) - Last year's runner-up Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
was a third-round upset victim Thursday at the $785,000 Aegon Championships,
a grass-court Wimbledon tune-up.
Croat Ivan Dodig was unable to break the second-seeded Tsonga and struck six
fewer aces (11-5) than his French counterpart, but still knocked out the
former Australian Open runner-up in 7-6 (7-3), 3-6, 7-6 (7-5) fashion at The
Queen's Club.
Tsonga lost to Britain's Andy Murray in last year's finale here. The two-time
champion Murray exited the draw Wednesday at the hands of 2007 Queen's Club
runner-up Nicolas Mahut.
More Day-4 upsets came when ninth-seeded South African Kevin Anderson topped
fifth-seeded Spanish lefthander Feliciano Lopez 7-6 (12-10), 7-6 (9-7) and
former Queen's Club champ San Querrey of the United States bested eighth-
seeded Frenchman Julien Benneteau 6-3, 3-6, 6-3. The 2010 titlist Querrey will
encounter Dodig in Friday's quarterfinals.
Sixth-seeded Croat Marin Cilic avoided the upset bug by beating Czech Lukas
Rosol 7-6 (7-3), 6-2.
In some other third-round action, talented Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov downed
the aforementioned French Mahut 7-6 (7-3), 6-4 and capable Belgian grass-
courter Xavier Malisse dismissed Italian Simone Bolelli 7-6 (7-5), 6-3.
Dimitrov will face Anderson on Friday.
Taiwan's Yen-Hsun Lu was leading third-seeded Serbian star Janko Tipsarevic
6-3, 1-2 when played was called because of rain. And a match between 10th-
seeded Argentine David Nalbandian and France's Edouard Roger-Vasselin was
postponed until Friday due to inclement weather.
The Sports Network