tennis roundup Saturday’s results

Farmers Classic

LOS ANGELES

Sam Querrey has defeated Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia 6-7 (7), 7-6 (7), 6-4 to reach the Farmers Classic final for the second consecutive year. Querrey needed 2 hours and 47 minutes to put away Tipsarevic at the Los Angeles Tennis Center on the UCLA campus. The Serb failed to convert a match point in the 10th game of the second set, then blew a 5-1 lead in the tiebreaker. Querrey reeled off six straight points, helped by a few big serves, to win the tiebreaker when Tipsarevic netted a backhand. The American will try to defend his title against either top-seeded Andy Murray or No. 4 seed Feliciano Lopez of Spain in today’s final.

The American will try to defend his title against either top-seeded Andy Murray or No. 4 seed Feliciano Lopez of Spain in today’s final.

Bank of the West Classic

STANFORD, CALIF.

Victoria Azarenka reached the final of the Bank of the West Classic, defeating top seed Samantha Stosur 6-2, 6-3. Azarenka, seeded eighth and ranked 18th in the world, will play the winner of No. 5-seeded Maria Sharapova and No. 3 Agnieszka Radwanska.

Croatia Open

UMAG, CROATIA

Potito Starace of Italy beat eighth-seeded Juan Ignacio Chela of Argentina 6-7 (4), 6-3, 6-2 to reach the Croatia Open final. Starace was still seeking his first ATP title, three years after appearing in his last final.

Istanbul Cup

ISTANBUL

Third-seeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova has advanced to the final of the Istanbul Cup with a 7-6 (1), 2-6, 7-5 win over Australian Jarmila Groth. She will play fellow Russian Elena Vesnina, who upset sixth-seeded Andrea Petkovic of Germany, 1-6, 6-0, 7-6 (2). The No. 29-ranked Pavlyuchenkova fended off strong serving from Groth, who had 11 aces. The victory gives the Russian her best showing since she won her first WTA Tour singles title at the Monterrey Open in Mexico in March. Vesnina trailed in the third set before pulling out victory. She had lost seven straight matches before arriving in Istanbul.

Swiss Open final

GSTAAD, SWITZERLAND

Frenchman Richard Gasquet has beaten Yuri Schukin of Kazakhstan 6-3, 6-4 to advance to the final of the Swiss Open against Nicolas Almagro of Spain. The seventh-seeded Gasquet, the 2006 champion, had little trouble against the 147th-ranked Schukin, who was playing his first career semifinal on Gstaad’s outdoor clay. The second-seeded Almagro beat countryman Daniel Gimeno-Traver 7-6 (7), 3-6, 6-3.

Associated Press