King and Querrey

King and Querrey ~~~
Last year's champions at the ITF Grade 1 in Carson California made an impression a few hours to the east this spring at the Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells. My Mobile story might be brief today due to rain, so I'm providing links to articles about each of them. The Querrey story has a few errors (he was a qualifier in San Jose, not a wild card; he's actually 1-2 versus top 100 ATP players in the past month, as he beat Garcia-Lopez in the Dallas Challenger), but lots of good quotes.

Lisa Dillman of the Los Angeles Times (registration required) zeroed in on Vania King's amateur status and the perspective of her brother Phillip, who won Kalamazoo two years in a row, beating Fish and then Ginepri in the finals, but decided to finish college before joining the ranks of professionals. He's now playing in Pro Circuit events, but feels he may have lost precious time. It's not a regret heard often (I shouldn't have gotten that degree at Duke), but it certainly provides Vania with an alternate viewpoint.