Andy Murray crushed Ivan Ljubicic 6-3, 6-2, pouncing on the veteran's mistakes for a first career victory at the Rotterdam Open yesterday.
Andy Murray crushed Ivan Ljubicic 6-3, 6-2, pouncing on the veteran's mistakes for a first career victory at the Rotterdam Open yesterday.
Murray's only miscue in the first-round meeting came as he held a 5-0 lead in the second set, double-faulting on a match point to let the 29-year-old Ljubicic back in at 1-5.
But two games later, the Scot second seed restored order with the win which took his record on the season to 9-1, including a January title in Doha.
Easy
"I had lost two of three matches against him, so I was expecting a tough match," said the world number 4.
"But he had so many errors that it made things easier on me," he added.
Murray will face Italian Andreas Seppi, who knocked out Rafael Nadal here a year ago in Thursday's second round.
"If I serve like I serve did today (seven aces, four breaks of serve) there are not a lot of guys who can beat me.
"I lost to Seppi the only time I played him (Nottingham, 2006) and he beat Nadal here. I'm expecting a difficult match."
In Paris, Polish fourth seed Agnieszka Radwanska wasted no time at all in securing her place in the second round of the WTA Paris Open with a 6-1, 6-1 victory over Ukraine's Oxana Lyubtsova.
Radwanska, 19, looked a class apart right from the off against the 23-year-old qualifier, winning every single point on Lyubstova's second serve and sewing up victory in just under 49 minutes.
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