An improved performance from Andy Murray saw a comfortable
straight sets win, over Frenchman Edouard Roger-Vasselin. On his second
appearance on the Hisense Arena. Murray was rarely troubled and saw out the match
in 1hour 58 minutes with a score 6-1 6-4 6-4.
It was obvious from the start that Roger-Vasselin didn’t have
the weapons to hurt Murray from the baseline unlike in the Brit’s opening match
against Ryan Harrison. The Frenchman was quick to surrender his opening service
game, as Murray took control early with his solid ground strokes squeezing the
errors from his opponent to take the set 6-1.
Murray was then quick to break early in the second and
looked to have the match over and done with. But Rodger-Vasselin dug deep by
raising his game finding success at the net to get a foot hold in the match.
Murray s dominant serving saw him drop just three points on serve in the second
set, but had to settle for the single break needing to be more ruthless only
converting 1 in 8 break points when a couple of errors crept into his game.
The third set was similar to the second, as a patient Murray
got his reward by not dropping serve throughout an ideal match. Murray later
said “I served well and didn’t give to many opportunities”. Next for Murray
lies another Frenchman in Michal Llodra who put out Alex Bogomolov Jr in a five
sets.
Tomorrow on the Rod laver Area Rafael Nadal takes on Slovakian
qualifier Lukas Lacko followed by Rodger Federer against six foot ten Ivo Karlovic
while on the woman’s side Caroline Wozniacki, Victoria Azarenka and defending champion
Kim Clijsters are all in action.
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