adminSHANGHAI. — Andy Murray overcame a late hiccup to reach the Shanghai Masters tennis tournament second round and world number 553 Wang Chuhan caused a major shock when he knocked out 15th seed Fabio Fognini in straight sets on his ATP World Tour debut yesterday.
Murray, ninth in the race to London as he seeks to break into the elite top eight who will play in the season-ending ATP Finals in November, overcame Russian Teymuraz Gabashvili 6-1, 7-5.
The Briton broke his opponent three times to run away with the first set but was broken twice in the second and had to dig deep to avoid a decider and set a second-round clash with Jerzy Janowicz.
“I started the match well, he wasn’t in much of a rhythm at the beginning,” Murray, who was 3-5 down in the second set before reeling off the last four games, told Sky Sports.
“I was dictating a lot of the points. I was using good variety. At the beginning of the second set, I played a sloppy game on my serve. He gained some confidence from that and started playing better.” — SuperTennis
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