Andy Murray flying at Surbiton as Brit into quarters to again up his top-10 declare

Murray had stormed through his opening match towards Hyeon Chung, needing an hour and 10 minutes to ease previous the previous prime 20 participant. He confronted one other first-time opponent in Yunchaokete, who got here by way of qualifying to achieve the second spherical.

The second seed took an early break to steer 4-2 however the world No 173 wasn’t going to let Murray run away with one other match and broke straight again. Murray had a set level on Yunchaokete’s serve at 5-4 however couldn’t convert it and grew annoyed on the again finish of the set.

“I don’t know what’s going on with my game,” the world No 43 shouted. But he managed to regroup and stormed by way of the tiebreak to take the opener 7-6(1). It was a troublesome opening set, lasting only a minute lower than Murray’s complete opening spherical.

Yunchaokete continued to fend off the 36-year-old as he saved two break factors early within the second set. Murray saved venting his frustration as he did not convert one other break level on the qualifier’s serve.

There was a quick break when Murray was 0-30 up at 3-3 as a spectator fainted. But play rapidly resumed and the Brit was lastly in a position to get a long-awaited break. Murray averted getting concerned in a cat-and-mouse sport as he saved a break again level and managed to shut out a straight-set victory.

“It is hard to put numbers on it, but yes, I would fancy myself against a lot of them. Last year I won against Nick Kyrgios who made the final of Wimbledon, I won against Stefanos Tsitsipas – it is probably not his favourite surface but he is one of the best players in the world,” he mentioned.

“And I was a set all with Matteo Berrettini in the final of Stuttgart, who is quite clearly in the top few grass-court players before I hurt my abs.”