Marin Cilic

Sam Querrey, the 6-foot-6 20-year-old from Thousand Oaks, signs autographs after winning his third-round match on Saturday at the U.S. Open.

Top-seeded Spaniard Fernando Verdasco was an easy third-round winner, while second-seeded Croat Ivo Karlovic went by way of the upset Wednesday at the $708,000 Pilot Pen Tennis event, a final U.S. Open tune-up.

The fourth-seeded Karlovic will play thirdseeded Fernando Verdasco of Spain, who beat Marin Cilic of Croatia 6-3, 6-1. Monfils struggled with a shoulder …

In the day’s other quarter-finals Spanish third seed Fernando Verdasco beat Frenchman Gilles Simon 6-3 2-6 6-3, while Croatia’s Marin Cilic swept past Swede …

5 Croats made it through to the last 16 yesterday, the first time it’s happened in any ATP event but the big shock was; Ivo Karlovic wasn’t among them.