Andy Murray earns victory over Lorenzo Sonego in nine-year return to Toronto

Murray now faces both Felix Auger-Alissime, the house hero, or qualifier Max Purcell. Speaking after the match, the previous world No 1 admitted that the windy situations proved tough. “Yeah, really not pleasant to play,” he mentioned. 

“Really blustery, you know, changing direction during the point. We knew coming in it was going to feel uncomfortable, we hit on this court this morning and it’s been really breezy so I was expecting it but it just adds a bit of stress to the match.”

“It was a really tight first set, it was lots of opportunities each way and then yeah managed to sneak through the tiebreak and after that, he was obviously a bit disappointed and I relaxed a little bit.”