Andy Murray rolls past Nikolay Davydenko into the second round – Wimbledon Championships 2012
Great Britain’s only hope, Andy Murray, made a great start to his campaign at the All England Club, as he beat the former world number three, Nikolay Davydenko of Russia, in straight sets in the first round of the Wimbledon Championships
in London on Tuesday. The Brit dropped just six games in the entire encounter, sealing it 6-1, 6-1, 6-4 in only an hour and 35 minutes.
Davydenko started by holding his serve in the opening game to move ahead 1-0 but he was unable to claim even one more till the end, getting broken three times and losing six in a row to go down 1-6.
In the second set, Murray grabbed lead from the start, claiming a breakthrough in the second game and holding his following serve to go up 3-0. The Brit hit another blow in the sixth and capitalised on the double break to finish
it with the same score line 6-1.
Davydenko lost his opening serve and the subsequent game to trail 0-2 in the third set but still it was the most competitive one of the three, as he managed to claim four games in it. However, the Russian could not cut Murray’s
lead till the end and lost it 4-6.
Murray banged in a total of 10 aces and committed only one double fault in the match. The fourth ranked player had a low first serve percentage of 67 but he had an impressive conversion rate, as he sealed 33 of the 40 first and
15 of the 20 second delivery points.
The Brit stated in the post match conference, "It was a good start, and I knew obviously when I drew him I was going to need to start the tournament well, playing good tennis.”
Questions were raised about Murray’s chances at the Wimbledon after he faced an early defeat at the hands of low ranked player, Nicolas Mahut, at the AEGON Championships.
He added, “Since Queen’s I’ve been itching to get going and I’m glad to get out of the blocks quickly. I was hitting the ball very cleanly from the beginning and I hit my slice very well, which is important against Davydenko. I
settle into matches a bit quicker than I used to. The last couple of weeks have been hard. I’ve been desperate to get going because there’s so much talk. It’s never easy playing in the first round at Wimbledon.”
Murray will either take on Ivo Karlovic of Croatia or Israel’s Dudi Sela in the round of 64.
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