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 | Murray started hard, but came to the turn of Wimbledon21-06-2011 |
Great hosts hope Andy Murray is the second round of Open tennis in the UK. Fourth-seeded Murray scored 13 aces in defeating Spaniard Daniel Gimeno-Traver with 4:6, 6:3, 6:0, 6:0. The match was a quarter in the history of "Wimbledon", which was played in open-top of the Central Court in London because of rain.
Briton started hard, but after 3-3 games won 15 straight, and with it the match.
"I started poorly, while he was hitting the ball very well and deservedly took the first set. It is good that I kept myself in the match and took the lead after the end of the second part leaped really well," said Murray, who finished with 45 winners.
59 th in the world Gimeno-Traver allowed until the first break in the eighth game of the second set, but by the end he was unable to oppose his rival, said Monday.
The Spaniard took medical timeout at 0:5 in the third because of a knee problem. He won only 15 points in the last two sets.
So after a little more than two hours Murray triumphed in the second round will face the winner of the match between Kamko Tobias (Germany) and blissful Kavchich (Slovakia).
Last year's finalist Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic had no problems in the first round. Sixth-seeded Berdych placed 12 aces and 32 winners shot success over Italian Filippo Volandri 6-2, 6-2, 6-1 in 94 minutes.
The next opponent of the Czech Julien Benneteau will be from France, which remove the difficult Belgian qualifier Ruben Bemelmans with 6:4, 6:2, 3:6, 4:6, 6:1. Benneteau scored 22 aces and 54 winners beats match that lasted 2:40.