Few players have won on three surfaces.  Sure, we look at the best of the best, at players like Nadal and Federer who have either won career Slams or may win career Slams.  But the average top 100 player does well to win maybe a dozen matches in their careers.  It’s not easy when you are not in the top 10, and yet fans look at low-ranked players with disdain, somehow willfully denying that they aren’t in the top 100 of whatever they do.

Sam Querrey won a hard court event over John Isner in Memphis, then a clay event over John Isner again in Belgrade.  Now, he’s won a grass event over Mardy Fish at Queen’s.  Although this event carries as much weight as Memphis or Belgrade, it generally draws a much better crowd because there’s so few tournaments and weeks prior to Wimbledon.  Few ATP 250 events draw Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, and Andy Murray.  And fewer still, with such a strong field. find none of them in the semifinals.

Querrey and Fish held serve in the first set until it went to tiebreak where Querrey won.  In the second set, Fish had a break in the middle of the set, but Querrey broke back, and then had a 0-40 on Fish’s next serve and won there as well, to take the second set 7-5.

Querrey hopes to go a few rounds deep at Wimbledon to finally do well at a Slam.  In the meanwhile, he can take pride in winning 3 tournament titles on 3 different surfaces.  Only Rafa has won more tournaments, and he won all of them on clay.

Another week, and then Wimbledon!