Andy Murray recovers from wobble to beat Andreas Seppi – Wimbledon 2015

Andy Murray reached the last 16 at Wimbledon today with a win over Andreas Seppi, the final score reading 6-2 6-2 1-6 6-1 in the Brit’s favour.

Giant Croatian Karlovic stands between 2013 Wimbledon champion Murray and an eighth consecutive SW19 quarter-final appearance.

Utilising his booming serve will be Karlovic’s game-plan again, the veteran having fired down 136 aces in three matches so far.

The Swiss-Indian pair of Martina Hingis and Sania Mirza breezed into the second round of Wimbledon after a 6-2, 6-2 straight set victory over Zarina Diyas and Zheng Saisai on Thursday. “He gave it a few good cracks”, said Murray.

Ahead of his fourth-round match against Croatia’s Ivo Karlovic on Monday, the Scot revealed that he fell asleep watching Heather Watson’s narrow loss to Serena Williams – despite really being “into” the match.

Just as they had for Seppi, the trainer’s magic hands had the desired effect as a rejuvenated Murray claimed an instant break back before holding serve to love. “He’s served very well so my returns will have to be on if I want to get through that one”.

“It was like a 10-15 minute break”.

“Once I had the treatment, I served much better and way harder”, said Murray, who joked that it was not “that pleasant” to have 90kg of Sniteman lying on top of him and rocking his body from side to side to release the tension.

On a day when Murray threw his wristband into the crowd in celebration of his win and the sweaty item headed for the tender grasp of the Duchess of Cornwall – who was saved the embarrassment of going for the catch by the chairman Philip Brook – it was perhaps a sign of changing times.

The British number one was now in real trouble, requiring an intensive bout of treatment to his shoulder at the changeover, but once again the break in play benefited the injured party.

Seppi called the trainer first for a troublesome ankle, and the break in play seemed to bother both players.

Asked about his thoughts on the use of time-outs, McEnroe said: ‘I’m not a big believer in it. I think that’s part of what players take pride in if they can break someone down, and it’s got completely out of control. And then when he [Seppi] took the injury time out, I cooled down a little bit and I threw in a couple of double faults in that game and slowed down my serve a bit.

Asked whether restrictions should be placed on time-outs, Murray added: “It’s a tough one to say”.

Ex- Wimbledon champion John McEnroe was less than impressed when Seppi, followed by Murray, stopped play to call for a physiotherapist during Saturday’s game.

The world No. 3 has a dominant record against Karlovic, winning all five of their previous encounters, including a second-round meeting at Wimbledon three years ago.

‘There are a lot of different skills that you have to train in tennis and you are not playing on the same surface every time.