Murray breaks again. His best game of the match so far.He then holds to 30

7-6(3) 4-1*

Job done, poor serving but helped by even poorer serving by Falla in set 2 (26% to Andy's 38%). Some excellent defence, some poor forehands into the net. Andy said it was cold and playing slow. His knee is sore due to change of surface and break since Wimbledon. Lucky that Falla dropped his level as this could have been quite tricky.

At least another win.

I would expect some break after Wimbledon. But these soreness problems and his comments seem to suggest he hasn't done much at all since Wimbledon. I hope in fact he has been putting in a fair amount of work, since I though he'd realised in the last few months that he is best when he really does put in the work and practice.

First serve % very poor, but that's not a big story.   Was just looking at the bottom of these listed in the Rioch ATP Matchfacts 1st Serve Percentage for this year, which contain some strartling information  :

69	Hewitt, Lleyton	56	27
70	Robert, Stephane	56	25
71	Fish, Mardy	55	39
72	Murray, Andy	54	32
73	Baghdatis, Marcos	52	40

Yes, there is someone worse than Andy this year !

( Rather further up includes  Nadal 69%, Davydenko 67%, Djokovic 63%, Fed 62 %  Sod 60%  )

I had a look at the Rioch ATP Matchfacts 1st serve percentage statistics for this year, and on the list of 73 players there is someone who should be ashamed.

Step forward, Marcos Baghdatis !     Yes, he has a worse first serve % than Muzza.

I did do a paste and give more info on earlier post which may or may not reappear, since it looks like some posts containing links need to get past admin at the moment.

Oh ta.  I see it now 

I just got a message saying something like that it would need approved by Admin and then just saw no evidence of any post.  I'd noticed someone else mentioning needing approval re links so I guessed this was just some new thing.