Murray eases into second round at the Open
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09/01/2010 -
Flushing Meadows, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Former runner-up Andy Murray was an
easy opening-round winner Wednesday at a very hot U.S. Open.
The fourth-seeded Murray mauled helpless Slovakian Lukas Lacko 6-3, 6-2, 6-2
in 1 hour, 51 minutes on yet another scorching day in the Big Apple. The
British star doused Lacko with the help of six service breaks in the
predictable encounter at Ashe Stadium, where the on-court temperature soared
over 100 degrees for a third straight day.
Murray was the 2008 U.S. Open runner-up to Swiss icon Roger Federer and also
lost to Federer in this year's Australian Open title tilt.
Up next for Murray will be rising 6-foot-5 Jamaican Dustin Brown.
An eye-catching upset came when tough French lefthander Michael Llodra ousted
seventh-seeded Wimbledon runner-up Tomas Berdych 7-6 (7-3), 6-4, 6-4 in 2
hours, 26 minutes. Llodra required a trainer to work on his foot during the
second set, but the Frenchman returned to the court, unfazed by the ailment.
The stunned Berdych was unable to break Llodra's quality serve on Day 3.
The 6-foot-5 Berdych reached the semifinals at the French Open back in June
and landed in his first career Grand Slam final at the All England Club in
July, losing to world No. 1 superstar Rafael Nadal.
American teenager Ryan Harrison, making his U.S. Open debut, upset 15th-seeded
former top-five star Ivan Ljubicic 6-3, 6-7 (4-7), 6-3, 6-4, while 20th-seeded
American Sam Querrey got past fellow American Bradley Klahn 6-3, 4-6, 7-5,
6-4. Ljubicic was a Masters event champion at Indian Wells earlier this season
who struggled against the intense heat and the 18-year-old Harrison. Querrey
is a four-time champion on the ATP World Tour this year.
Fourteenth-seeded Spaniard Nicolas Almagro came from behind to best Italian
Potito Starace 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 7-6 (7-5), while 25th-seeded Swiss Stanislas
Wawrinka waltzed past Kazakhstan's Mikhail Kukushkin 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 at the USTA
Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.
Additional opening-round wins came for the aforementioned Brown, Ukrainian
Sergiy Stakhovsky, Romanian Victor Hanescu and Spaniards Marcel Granollers and
Guillermo Garcia-Lopez. The hot Stakhovsky, who topped Aussie Peter Luczak in
four sets on Wednesday, is fresh off his hardcourt title in New Haven last
week.
The 2010 U.S. Open titlist will claim at least $1.7 million.
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