Blake wins in upset at Brisbane

Blake had his serve broken just once in 15 games in the 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 win over Querrey, who was seeded fifth. Blake won 54 percent of the points but service breaks in each set proved to be the difference in the tight match.

Sixth-seeded Jurgen Melzer was also ousted, losing 7-5, 6-1 to Matthew Ebden in just more than an hour. Ebden has 12 aces and won all but eight points in 10 service games.

Third-seeded Gael Monfils and No. 4-seeded Tomas Berdych played more to form with wins Tuesday. Monfils was pushed to a third set but never dropped serve in a 7-6 (7-1), 6-7 (5-7), 6-2 win over Taylor Dent and Berdych breezed by Nick Lindahl 6-2, 6-4.

Also Tuesday, Marcos Baghdatis was a 7-5, 7-5 winner over Mardy Fish; Carsten Ball knocked off Mischa Zverev 7-5, 6-1; Oleksandr Dolgopolov Jr. beat Bernard Tomic 6-4, 6-4; and Florent Serra survived a 6-7 (3-7), 7-6 (7-5), 7-5 marathon against Julian Reister that took 2 hours, 40 minutes.

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