Andy Murray

Andy Murray battled back from a set down and survived three match points to claim a dramatic tie-break victory over Lorenzo Sonego at the Qatar ExxonMobil ...

He rolled the dice at the end, and it looked like he had the momentum. "We never played together, or practised with each other before, so I didn't know exactly how the match was going to go and it took a while to get used to his game. "He's a very aggressive player, takes a lot of chances, but it's high-risk tennis.

The British veteran came from a set down to overcome his Italian counterpart 4-6 6-1 7-6[4] and set up a clash with German fourth seed Alexander Zverev in the ...

The third set was a much tighter affair, albeit with a few shanked forehands from Murray - one of which gave Sonego two match points in the 10th game - but the steadfast Scot saved both of them. Sonego could have very well capitulated at the start of the third set after ceding a break point to Murray in the opening game, but the 27-year-old's resilience came to the fore as he fought back to hold. Sonego at least managed to avoid a bagel with a hold to love in the sixth game, but an ace down the T from Murray brought up three set points for the three-time major winner, who once again relied on the cross-court forehand at the net to force a third set.

Double Wimbledon and Olympic men's singles champion follows up his dawn epic in Australia by saving three match points to win in Qatar.

[He then came from two sets down to beat home hope Thanasi Kokkinakis](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tennis/2023/01/20/caledonian-cyborg-andy-murray-adds-another-glorious-episode/) in the subsequent match in Melbourne, which finished shortly after 4am. “He’s not quite yet back to the level he was in the middle of last year.” Murray saved the first match point via a steady 18-shot rally, and then fired down a pair of big serves to stave off the next two. “He had a bad injury at the French Open last year,” said Murray of Zverev. He still loves chiselling out these sorts of wins through sheer bloody-mindedness, even as he walks awkwardly between points at the age of 35. Sonego was in full flow at this stage.

Murray set up a Qatar Open second round clash with Alexander Zverev after he fought back to defeat Lorenzo Sonego 4-6, 6-1, 7-6(4). In the deciding set ...

[Tennis News](https://www.tennis365.com/category/tennis-news/) [ATP Tour](https://www.tennis365.com/category/atp-tour/) [WTA Tour](https://www.tennis365.com/category/wta-tour/) “He had a bad injury at [Roland Garros] last year and is just coming back from that. [News](https://www.tennis365.com/category/news/) However, Murray came back strong in the second set, exploding out to a 5-0 lead and proving unstoppable due to his relentless aggression and precise baseline shots from the wings. Later, he overcame a two-set deficit to triumph over Thanasi Kokkinakis in a thrilling second-round battle that went on into the small hours. At the Australian Open in January, he similarly survived a match point before defeating Sonego’s compatriot Matteo Berrettini in his opening round appointment. He rolled the dice at the end, and it looked like he had the momentum. “He’s obviously one of the top players in the world,” said Murray of Zverev. “It was really tough,” said Murray post-match. “He’s a very aggressive player, takes a lot of chances, but it’s high-risk tennis.

With this point Murray closed the game. Tennis TV · @TennisTV. ·. Follow. WHAT A MATCH @andy_murray saves 3 match points en route to a 4-6 6-1 7-6 ...

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The Scot saved three match points to win 4-6 6-1 7-6 (4) on Monday.

“He (Zverev) was one of the top players in the world and had a bad injury at the French Open last year and is just coming back from that. “He rolled the dice at the end and it looked like he had the momentum and then, thankfully in the mid-part of that tie-break, he made a couple of mistakes and I managed to turn it around. I didn’t know exactly how the match was going to go and took a while to get used to his game.

Andy Murray saved more match points against an Italian as he fought back to beat Lorenzo Sonego at the Qatar ExxonMobil Open.

The world No.70 will now face fellow Olympic champion Alex Zverev in the next round. The double Wimbledon champion, now 35, won seven of the last eight points to win another thriller in two-and-a-half hours. He is a very aggressive player and takes a lot of chances, plays high-risk tennis.

Andy Murray now faces Alex Zverev after another escape act, which saw him rescue three match points at 4-5 in the decider when it looked like he was being ...

'It was really tough, it took a while to get used to his game,' said Murray. Andy Murray defeated Lorenzo Sonego in his first game since the Australian Open in January and Liam Broady is also through after defeating Oleksii Krutykh

The Scot saved three match points to win 4-6 6-1 7-6 (4) on Monday.

“He (Zverev) was one of the top players in the world and had a bad injury at the French Open last year and is just coming back from that. “He rolled the dice at the end and it looked like he had the momentum and then, thankfully in the mid-part of that tie-break, he made a couple of mistakes and I managed to turn it around. I didn’t know exactly how the match was going to go and took a while to get used to his game.

Down three match points late in the third set, Great Britain's Andy Murray rallied to beat Italy's Lorenzo Sonego 4-6, 6-1, 7-6 (4) in the first round of ...

Andy Murray showed his trademark fighting spirit as he fended off three match points on his way to beating Lorenzo Sonego at the Qatar Open. Murray says he is ...

But I lost in the second round to, in my opinion, a very good player, [Tallon Griekspoor], who played well that week.” “A few weeks ago I used to still get signals from my foot. I used to, once in a while, still get pain. “I pushed myself physically really hard since the end of last season. “So that was really positive for me. “I feel like a strength of mine in those moments is that I’m able, because I’m concentrating really hard in those moments, is that my decision-making on the court improves because of that.”