Ryan Harrison, a sometimes hot-tempered 19-year-old from Louisiana kept playing his fight-from-behind tennis Friday at the Farmers Classic at the Los Angeles Tennis Center at UCLA.
Harrison lost the first set then came back to beat 27-year-old veteran Yen-Hsun Lu of Taipai, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.
In two of his three matches this week, Harrison has lost the first set and been down a break in the second. Against Lu, who upset American Andy Roddick two years ago at Wimbledon, Harrison earned a warning from the chair umpire after one of his angry racket tosses and often was mumbling to himself. It is as if Harrison needs to light his emotional spark with a flint made of temper.
In the 2-hour, 24-minute quarterfinal match, Harrison finally seized control with a service break in the seventh game of the final set that came, in part, because Harrison controlled his service returns, keeping the strokes in the court and starting rallies instead of trying for instant winners. He solidified his 4-3 lead by holding serve in a nine-point eighth game where he was down 0-30 and got back to 30-30 with a 117-mile-per-hour ace.
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