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Andy Murray beats Pablo Cuevas to advance to China Open quarter-finals | Andy Murray beats Pablo Cuevas to advance to China Open quarter-finals |
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Andy Murray strolled into the quarter-finals of the China Open on Thursday with a straightforward victory over Pablo Cuevas. Fresh from winning the Shenzhen Open four days earlier, Murray was in fine form in Beijing, needing one hour and 20 minutes to beat the Uruguayan 6-2, 6-2. | |
Murray won the first set with the minimum of fuss and the start of the second set mirrored the first when Murray broke twice and held his own serve to surge into a 4-0 lead. Cuevas then broke back before holding his serve to reduce the deficit to 4-2. | |
Annoyed at losing two successive games, Murray upped the ante by breaking Cuevas for the fifth and final time in the next game before holding serve to win the second set and wrap up victory in convincing fashion. Murray will meet Marin Cilic for a place in the semi-finals on Friday after the Croatian beat João Sousa 6-3, 6-3. | |
The world No2 Rafael Nadal sailed into the quarter-finals with a 6-3, 6-4 win over the German qualifier Peter Gojowczyk. The Spaniard, returning from a wrist injury, won 85% of his first service points and took an hour and 45 minutes to seal victory and set up a meeting with Martin Klizan at the ATP 500 event. | |
The Slovak was leading 6-2, 3-0 when the seventh seed Ernests Gulbis retired because of a right shoulder injury. | |
The third seed Tomas Berdych moved up a place to seventh in the race to the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals in London after his 6-3, 6-4 victory against the wildcard Viktor Troicki despite a poor serving display. The Czech managed to make only 32% of his first serves and meets the eighth seed and big server John Isner in the quarter-finals. | |
Elsewhere on Beijing’s blue hard courts, the Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov beat the Spaniard Pablo Andújar 6-4, 6-4. Dimitrov now plays the world No1 Novak Djokovic. | |
The Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova upset the seventh seed Angelique Kerber in three sets, while Petra Kvitova also reached the quarter-finals without hitting a ball after the American Venus Williams withdrew with a viral illness. | |
The two-times champion Kuznetsova dropped the first set but prevailed 2-6, 6-4, 6-3 in battle that complicates her German opponent’s hopes of qualifying for the season-ending WTA Finals in Singapore. | |
Kerber is ninth in the race for next month’s event featuring the top eight players and could have improved her position with a better showing in China. | Kerber is ninth in the race for next month’s event featuring the top eight players and could have improved her position with a better showing in China. |
The second seed Simona Halep, one of four players to have already secured a place in the Singapore event, battled past Andrea Petkovic of Germany with tie-breaks separating the pair in two of the three low-quality sets. | The second seed Simona Halep, one of four players to have already secured a place in the Singapore event, battled past Andrea Petkovic of Germany with tie-breaks separating the pair in two of the three low-quality sets. |
The Romanian, who produced 91 errors, fought for more than two and half hours to tame Petkovic 7-6 (4), 5-7, 7-6 (1) and reach the last eight where she will meet Ana Ivanovic, who defeated Sabine Lisicki 6-3, 7-5. | The Romanian, who produced 91 errors, fought for more than two and half hours to tame Petkovic 7-6 (4), 5-7, 7-6 (1) and reach the last eight where she will meet Ana Ivanovic, who defeated Sabine Lisicki 6-3, 7-5. |
The Italian Roberta Vinci prevailed in a three-setter, upstaging the 12th seed Ekaterina Makarova 6-1, 0-6, 7-5. | The Italian Roberta Vinci prevailed in a three-setter, upstaging the 12th seed Ekaterina Makarova 6-1, 0-6, 7-5. |