On a Friday filled with marathon matches, top seed Andy Murray avoided a similar fate by breezing into fourth round of the Australian Open in Melbourne with a 6-4, 6-2, 6-4 win over No. 29 seed Sam Querrey. "I thought I did pretty good today,” said Murray, who admitted his right ankle his right ankle felt better. “The start of the match was hard [as] Sam came out serving big. He was really going for his shots. The end of that first set was important. He had a break point at 3-4. When I saved that and broke the next game, the momentum was with me. I started to serve a bit better and put a lot more returns back...
World No. 1 Andy Murray suffered an injury scare on Wednesday night at the Australian Open when he rolled his right ankle during a 6-3, 6-0, 6-2 victory over qualifier and #NextGenATP teenager Andrey Rublev. Murray, a five-time runner-up at Melbourne Park, will next meet American No. 31 seed Sam Querrey, who lost only three of his first service points to beat 17-year-old Australian wild card Alex De Minaur 7-6(5), 6-0, 6-1 in one hour and 48 minutes. “I played pretty well tonight,” said Murray. “It was better than the first match. I was hitting the ball a bit cleaner [and] I was hitting through the court more. [There were] more winners. I was able to get myself up to...
Top seed Andy Murray came up against a determined Illya Marchenko on Monday at the Australian Open in Melbourne, but the Brit passed his first-round challenge with a solid 7-5, 7-6(5), 6-2 win. "I don't think it was the best match, to be honest," said Murray. "The conditions there were pretty different to what we've been practising [in]. Last week's been pretty cool… [I] didn't serve that well either. So you end up having to work really hard on a lot of your service games when it's like that. It just was tough." Murray was unable to serve out the first set at 5-3, but regrouped by breaking the Ukrainian at 6-5 to grab the early advantage. Marchenko continued to...
For several reasons, this year's Australian Open should be a much different experience for Andy Murray than the 2016 edition. The most obvious reason is the number next to Murray's name: 1. Murray, playing in his 12th Australian Open, is the top seed at a Grand Slam for the first time. The Scot ascended to No. 1 in the Emirates ATP Rankings last season at the BNP Paribas Masters in Paris in November. Closer to home, Murray should have a more peaceful stay in Melbourne this January. Twelve months ago, his wife, Kim Sears, was pregnant and could have gone into labour at any point during the tournament. She gave birth to their daughter, Sophia Olivia, a week after Murray...