In the second set, it went like Murray’s success did not come from his own brilliance in the court but rather Haase’s incompetence as he looked completely lost of every return made by the British. Murray faced just the one break point all match, and hit 25 winners to 11 unforced errors.
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“I’m very happy with the way I’ve played now in the first two matches”. He’s won a couple of good matches.
“But the wristband actually hit the chairman of Wimbledon”.
LONDON, July 2 (Reuters) – When a totally off-balance Andy Murray fashioned the most improbable lob victor to break Robin Haase in the first set on Thursday the Dutchman must have known that his 2015 Wimbledon journey was going to end sooner rather than later.
Haase, ranked 78th in the world, pushed Murray all the way at last year’s U.S. Open and took him to five sets at the same tournament in 2011.
The official then handed it as a gift to the Duchess of Cornwall who was sitting next to him.
Some devour strawberries and cream, others splash out on a Pimm’s or an official towel, but Prince Charles’ wife Camilla went home from Wimbledon on Thursday with an Andy Murray sweatband.
Kvitova continued her title defense with another quick 6-2 6-0 win over Kurumi Nara of Japan.
The momentary blip was eventually that and nothing more though, as Murray recovered to finish the set off with another ace, leading by two sets with an hour and four minutes gone.
The game was easier than Tuesday’s first round win.
“Of course there will be maybe only a handful of fans for me, but I’m here to play my game and hopefully entertain the crowd as well”, Haase said.
The British No. 1 powered past the Dutchman 6-1 6-1 6-4 in 88 brutal minutes to book his place in the Wimbledon third round.
Wozniacki, who has never got beyond the last 16, next takes on Italian 31st seed Camila Giorgi.
Germany’s Angelique Kerber improved from a hard-fought opening set to dispatch Russia’s Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 7-5 6-2.
Makarova joined third seed Simona Halep, seventh seed Ana Ivanovic and Carla Suarez Navarro, seeded nine, in failing to get beyond the second round.
Hewitt, the 2002 singles champion who is competing at the All England Club for the final time, and Kokkinakis came back to edge Marin Draganja and Henri Kontinen 6-7 (6), 3-6, 7-6 (1), 6-2, 8-6 in the first round of singles.
“I’m playing well this year and last year”. The Swiss-Indo pair however, faltered on the clay court falling early in both Stuttgart and Madrid and then were ousted in the French Open quarterfinals by Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Lucie Safarova.
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Seven-time victor Roger Federer won 86% of points at the net and made a rare between-the-legs shot from the baseline to defeat Sam Querrey of the United States 6-4 6-2 6-2. Robin Haase (NED) 61 61 64 [6] Tomas Berdych (CZE) vs. Nicolas Mahut (FRA) [10] Rafael Nadal (ESP) vs. Dustin Brown (GER) [12] Gilles Simon (FRA) d.
