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| Andy Murray downs Teymuraz Gabashvili at Shanghai Masters | Andy Murray downs Teymuraz Gabashvili at Shanghai Masters |
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| Andy Murray was made to work hard before claiming a straight-sets victory over Russia’s world No55, Teymuraz Gabashvili, to reach the second round of the Shanghai Masters. | Andy Murray was made to work hard before claiming a straight-sets victory over Russia’s world No55, Teymuraz Gabashvili, to reach the second round of the Shanghai Masters. |
| The 27-year-old Scot, seeded 11th, triumphed with a 6-1, 7-5 win in an hour and 25 minutes as he moved closer to qualifying for the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals in London. | The 27-year-old Scot, seeded 11th, triumphed with a 6-1, 7-5 win in an hour and 25 minutes as he moved closer to qualifying for the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals in London. |
| After sailing through the first set Murray started to struggle in the second, trailing 5-3 at one point to the Georgia-born qualifier before he struck back to set up a second-round meeting with Poland’s Jerzy Janowicz. | |
| Murray told Sky Sports: “I started the match well and he wasn’t in very much of a rhythm at the beginning and I was dictating a lot of the points and using good variety, and that helped. | Murray told Sky Sports: “I started the match well and he wasn’t in very much of a rhythm at the beginning and I was dictating a lot of the points and using good variety, and that helped. |
| “At the beginning of the second set I played a sloppy game on my serve and he gained some confidence from that and started playing better. He was timing the ball a lot better in the second set and I had to find a way to get through in the end. | “At the beginning of the second set I played a sloppy game on my serve and he gained some confidence from that and started playing better. He was timing the ball a lot better in the second set and I had to find a way to get through in the end. |
| “I started using a variety again at the end of the second set. I was using a lot more high balls up to his backhand and that was pushing him back off the baseline and I was able to dictate the points. It was a good start for me … but there’s still some work to be done.” | “I started using a variety again at the end of the second set. I was using a lot more high balls up to his backhand and that was pushing him back off the baseline and I was able to dictate the points. It was a good start for me … but there’s still some work to be done.” |
| Murray moved up to ninth place in the race to reach the ATP Tour Finals as he followed up his tournament win in Shenzhen with a semi-final defeat by Novak Djokovic in Beijing last week. | Murray moved up to ninth place in the race to reach the ATP Tour Finals as he followed up his tournament win in Shenzhen with a semi-final defeat by Novak Djokovic in Beijing last week. |
| Only the top eight in the standings at the end of the regular season are guaranteed a place at the O2 from 9-16 November, with Murray currently trailing eighth-placed Milos Raonic by 175 points. Djokovic, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal have already qualified. | Only the top eight in the standings at the end of the regular season are guaranteed a place at the O2 from 9-16 November, with Murray currently trailing eighth-placed Milos Raonic by 175 points. Djokovic, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal have already qualified. |