Hewitt moves into Queen’s Club quarters

LONDON: Lleyton Hewitt continued his giant-killing run as the Australian moved into the quarter-finals with a 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 victory over American sixth seed Sam Querrey.

Hewitt is a four-time champion at the pre-Wimbledon warm-up event, but thoughts of a record fifth crown were some way from the former world number one's thoughts when he arrived at the start of the week.

The 32-year-old is well into the twilight of his career and his lowly 82nd position in the world rankings reflects that diminished status.

But the former Wimbledon champion has always thrived on grass and he produced one of his best performances of 2013 to brush aside the highly-regarded Grigor Dimitrov in the second round before cutting big-serving Querrey down to size on Thursday.

Hewitt will face former US Open champion Juan Martin del Potro or British wildcard Daniel Evans in the last eight.

Czech second seed Tomas Berdych maintained his strong start to the tournament as he progressed to the quarter-finals with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Slovenian 16th seed Grega Zemlja.

World number six Berdych, a Wimbledon finalist in 2010, next faces defending champion Marin Cilic or Feliciano Lopez.

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, the French fourth seed, finally won his delayed second round tie against compatriot Eduoard Roger-Vasselin.

Tsonga, fresh from his first semi-final appearance at the French Open, was pushed hard before eventually winning 6-3, 6-7 (2/7), 6-3 in a tie postponed on Wednesday due to rain.(AFP)