Surbiton crowd handled to a couple antique Andy Murray tennis at ATP Challenger Excursion as he defeats international No 125 Jurij Rodionov from Austria to e-book a second-round date with both Radu Albot or a qualifier; Murray didn’t lose his serve in any respect within the fit and broke Rodionov 4 instances
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Andy Murray made a robust get started on the Surbiton Trophy
Andy Murray has made a robust get started in his first grass-court fit of the season, defeating Jurij Rodionov 6-2 6-1 within the first around of the Surbiton Trophy.
In Murray’s first talk over with to Surbiton since 2004, the highest seed got here thru in flying colors in opposition to Austria’s Rodionov.
It used to be the 35-year-old’s first fit on grass since his All England Membership go out to Denis Shapovalov final July and whilst final summer time he used to be simplest ready to play 5 suits at the floor, the Surbiton Trophy is about to be one in all 3 tournaments he performs in forward of this yr’s go back and forth to Wimbledon.
The double Wimbledon champion had performed within the ATP Challenger Excursion tournament again in 2004 however so much has took place within the resulting 18 years
A two-hour prolong to court cases came about because of rain but if the sunshine bathe eased off, the gang had been handled to a couple antique Murray tennis with an array of winners, drop pictures and trademark ‘come on’ shouts in 58 mins of play.
He had elected to skip the French Open to start out his arrangements for Wimbledon early and gained a rousing reception from the ones within the 604-seater Centre Court docket.
It didn’t take lengthy for the Scot to make his mark with an ace first up and Murray used to be ready to wreck Rodionov within the fourth recreation following a excellent backhand crosscourt winner.
In his first fit in nearly 4 weeks, the three-time Grand Slam winner confirmed no indicators of rustiness and clinched a moment spoil quickly after to wrap up the primary set in 28 mins.
With Chelsea midfielder and tennis fan Ruben Loftus-Cheek amongst the ones in attendance, Murray’s self assurance at the grass confirmed in the beginning of the second one set with a very good lob securing a spoil early on.
Rodionov, who has already received two Challenger occasions this yr, did play his section in an entertaining first-round tie with a handful of spectacular winners himself.
The most important grasp via Murray within the 5th recreation from deuce maintained his merit and with the heavens able to open once more, a an important moment spoil went the way in which of the highest seed.
It allowed the Briton to serve for the fit which he duly did to start out his newest season on grass in normally emphatic model.
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