2010 China Open, Andy Murray and David Ferrer breeze into second round
The top ranked Brit, Andy Murray prevented both break points he faced and smashed a total of ten aces for a two setter victory over his French tennis foe, Paul Henri Mathieu at the 2010 China Open Men’s Competition on Tuesday. The final match score was 6-2,
6-3.
Andy dropped a total of nine points on serve in registering his fourth straight victory over Paul, who dropped to a career mark of 10-47 versus the top ten players. It was Andy’s first clash since last month when he was defeated by Stanislas Wawrinka in
the fourth round of the United States Open in New York.
Murray after the match while commenting on his game said, "I thought I did well. I started the match good and did not give him any chances really except in the second set, at 3- 2, I think, was the only game where he had a couple of break points on my serve.
It was a good first round”.
The Scott further added, “I felt like I was pretty out of breath when there were some lengthy rallies. I have been quite ill the previous week. I started feeling better today, but I have not practiced that much on the surface".
The twenty-three year old Murray is attempting to grab his sixteen ATP World Tour crown this week and his second trophy in 2010. Earlier in August, Murray won the Rogers Cup after getting the better of both Rafael and Federer. He enjoys a match record of
35-13 this year.
Meanwhile, David Ferrer, who is seeded number eight to win the title in Beijing, toppled Denis Istomin from Uzbekistan in two sets on Tuesday. The final match score was 6-4, 6-1. The clash concluded in a time period of sixty four minutes in Beijing.
David won eighty-one percent of service points to advance at the 2010 China Open. He made his way into the semi final round earlier at the Malaysian Open last week in Kuala Lumpur where he defeated the world number seven Tomas Berdych before falling at the
hands of Andrey Golubev.
In other action, World number eighteen, Marcos Baghdatis from Cypriot was bundled out by Alexandr Dolgopolov in two sets on Tuesday. The final match score was 6-4, 6-4. The clash concluded in a time period of eighty four minutes in Beijing. Marcos, as a
result of this loss has dropped to a match record of 39-24 on the season.
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