Fish opens next-to-last tournament with upset of Troicki

He told the ATP website: “I was a little surprised at my level”.

Both players were guilty of wasting chances to take control in the opener as they immediately lost their serve after making breakthroughs, and it soon became clear that Murray was perhaps not timing shots from the back of the court as well as he has done recently.

Andy Murray has reached the third round of the Cincinnati Masters after coming through a hard-fought contest against Mardy Fish. He’s won a ton of matches.

The world number two saw his serve broken on four occasions during the match against the American before he eventually secured a 6-4 7-6 victory at the Lindner Family Tennis Center. Donaldson leads 7-5, 6-7 (2), 4-1 in the third set.

Wimbledon finalist Garbine Muguraza made an early exit thanks to Yaroslava Shvedova, who beat the ninth seed 6-4, 7-6 (7/0), while Timea Bacsinszky was another seed to exit early as Madison Keys pulled off a 6-4 6-3 win.

Andreas Seppi won through 6-3 6-3 win over Adrian Mannarino and Australian Bernard Tomic also advanced to the second round as he dismissed Ukraine’s Sergiy Stakhovsky 6-4 6-3. You never know. I certainly played well today. “The way I play my game, I’m always going to have more unforced errors, but I’m going to have more winners, too”.

Irina-Carmelia Begu got past Alize Cornet 6-4, 6-4 in the last singles match of the night. Gilles Mueller eliminated lucky loser Benoit Paire 7-6 (5), 7-6 (6), and Thomaz Bellucci topped Jiri Vesely 7-6 (5), 6-2.

Elsewhere Ivo Karlovic completed a 6-4 6-7(3) 6-2 win over 10th-seeded Gilles Simon of France while Portugal’s Joao Sousa claimed a 6-2 6-7(5) 6-2 win over Germany’s Philipp Kohlschreiber.

Qualifier Timea Babos shocked Sam Stosur to progress as a 7-4 (8/6), 4-6, 7-5 victor, Jelena Jankovic recovered to beat Madison Brengle 4-6, 6-4 6-2, Coco Vandeweghe dominated Yulia Putintseva 6-3, 6-2 and Karin Knapp toppled Ana Konjuh 7-5, 6-1.