ATLANTA -- Andy Roddick was hoping Nicolas Mahut would be the first to flinch in a first-set tiebreaker. Cheap NHL Jerseys . It didnt take long for Roddick to get his wish. "He missed a pretty easy to ball in the tiebreaker to make it 3-all," Roddick said. "From there, I played pretty solid." Roddick beat the Frenchman 7-6 (4), 6-3 in the second round of the Atlanta Open on Wednesday night after rain delayed the tournament 4 1/2 hours. Roddick, who will play Michael Russell in the quarterfinals, broke Mahut in the ninth point of the tiebreaker and held serve to take a tough first set. "The first tiebreaker is so big," Roddick said. "Theres not much between you, and whoever loses it has a long road (back). I was fortunate to get up on that one." Russell, at 34, is the oldest player in the main draw, but he outlasted No. 5 seed Kevin Anderson of South Africa 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-4 to reach his first ATP World Tour hard-court quarterfinals since February 2011. No. 8 seed Go Soeda of Japan beat Russias Igor Kunitsyn 6-1, 7-5. Their match began at 4 p.m., but when the rain hit 25 minutes later, the order of play was changed. Soeda and Kunitsyn had to wait 7 1/2 hours for Russell and Anderson to finish before their match could restart. Soeda led the first set 3-0 before play was stopped. The match, which lasted 1 hour, 31 minutes, ended at 1:28 a.m. No. 3 seed Kei Nishikori of Japan held off Lithuanias Ricardas Berankis 6-4, 6-7 (7), 6-4 in a match that ended at 1:47 a.m. Roddicks victory avenged a four-set loss to Mahut at the French Open on May 27. It was Roddicks earliest exit from a Grand Slam tournament since 2007 and his first loss to Mahut in five career matches. "I thought about it a little bit, but the conditions are so different," Roddick said. "Im not real comfortable on clay. I dont think thats a secret. Obviously coming back here on home turf on a surface Im very comfortable on is just a different scenario." No. 1 seed John Isner and No. 2 seed Mardy Fish, Atlantas two-time defending champion, will play their second-round matches on Thursday. Though Roddick didnt have to wait nearly as long as some of the players to get on the court, the damp conditions were hardly to his liking. He and Mahut occasionally slipped as they tried to reach for shots. "I expressed my concern," Roddick said. "It was heard by the supervisor. He agreed with my sentiment and told me to play on." Russell and Anderson began their match at 4 p.m., but they had to wait nearly five hours before resuming. In the tiebreaker, Anderson held serve to take the 11th point and broke Russell to win the first set. Russell, though, held his composure to avenge a loss to Anderson in Atlanta last year. Isner will face Ruben Bemelmans of Belgium in the last singles match on Thursday. Fish will play Luxembourgs Gilles Muller in the second afternoon match. 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"Normally I start matches serving well, so I was not too nervous." The No. 21-seeded Raonic fired 20 aces, converted 93 per cent of his serves and had three service breaks while holding his serve throughout. Raonic had 44 winners and made just eight unforced errors. Raonic was playing at the All-England Club for the first time since slipping and hurting his hip in a second-round match against Gilles Muller at last years tournament. He was forced to retire from that match and remained sidelined until October after requiring surgery. Raonic said hes been more cautiouss on turf ever since. Cheap NFL Jerseys. "If I start slipping on the grass now, I stop going for my shots quite as much," he said. "Thats the difference between now and last year. "I had a match point Tuesday and if it had not been wet I could have pushed for it and gotten to the ball a bit earlier." With the win, the six-foot-five Raonic faces the six-foot-six Querrey in a battle of big men. But Raonic said the two players dont use the same strategy. "Querrey hits big but we play different games with different patterns," said Raonic, who hasnt competed against Querrey but has rallied with him in the past. Querrey defeated Canadian Vasek Pospisil 7-5, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-4 on Tuesday night. But Raonic said hes confident ahead of the showdown. "I can hit all the sports, serve in different patterns," he said. "Im returning well, that will be the key in this match." Raonic and Aleksandra Wozniak of Blainville, Que., are the only Canadians left at Wimbledon. Wozniak opened with a 6-2, 7-5 win over Russian Vera Dushevina. Wozniak plays her second-round match Thursday against Chinas Zheng Jie, who she beat at the French Open last month. ' ' '