After stopping in the second round of Wimbledon, Andy Murray moved to the US to attend Hall of Fame Open. This is the grass award in the ATP 250 category, held in Newport.
At Hall of Fame Open, Murray is showing good performance. Last night 13/7, the world's No. 1 has just defeated Max Purcell to officially win tickets to the quarterfinals. Notably, Purcell has just won the championship in Wimbledon content of the men's doubles.
Entering set 1, Murray started not good. After successfully defending the first gaming game, he lost 2 consecutive breaks in games 3 and 5 and was led 1-5.
Until the second half of Set 1, Murray plays better. He won white 2 games 8 and 9 to reclaim 1 break. At the game 10 decided, the world's No. 1 saved 4 set-point and had 2 opportunities to break the game of Purcell but failed, thereby losing 4-6 in this set.
Sang game 2, Murray loses the break right in game 1. However, he did not leave the script in set 1 repeat. Immediately after Game 3, the Scottish player had an impressive upstream.
Accordingly, Murray won white 3 consecutive games of 4, 5 and 6, which won 2 breaks. Coming to Game 8, he continued to win the break to win the 6-2 gap in this set. The ratio is therefore 1-1 balance, bringing 2 players into set 3.
In this set, Murray completely owned the game. He has 3 times to win the break to defeat Purcell with a score of 6-1. The Wimbledon champion has only 1 game winning in this set and accepted to lose.
Defeating Purcell with score 4-6, 6-2 and 6-1, Murray has written his name in the quarterfinals of Hall of Fame Open. Here, his opponent will be Alexander Bublik, the player is ranked 42nd on the ATP rankings.
