Andy Murray survives ankle injury scare to book third round spot

“I’ve just got to play on my terms and really be focused on my own service games to make sure I don’t have any lapses there”.

Murray plays American Sam Querrey in the third round in Melbourne.

“Two years ago I was up two sets to love and he came back”.

Kyrgios also picked up a pair of code violations, firstly for an audible obscenity and the second, which cost him a point penalty, for angrily sending his Yonex racquet spiralling late in the third set.

“It was a relief obviously”, he said. I served way better, too. “Just great to win”.

The combustible 21-year-old was booed off court and accused of giving up as he crashed out in the second round in a stormy five-set defeat to Italian Andreas Seppi on Wednesday, despite winning the first two sets.

“Maybe it was meant to be?” said Seppi. To start taking it more seriously.

Nick Kyrgios blamed his mental fragility for another spectacular meltdown that led to his shock second-round exit from the Australian Open last night.

No. 30 Pablo Carreno Busta had a 6-2, 6-4, 6-2 win over Kyle Edmund to move into a third-round match against either six-time Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic or Denis Istomin. “If I’m playing a guy on grass, I’ll try to watch matches of them playing on a grass court because it changes from surface to surface”.

“I did a couple of things in the off-season that I’m probably not going to do next time”.

“He’s an incredible player in the sport and is doing so well”.

“I was feeling fine all day and warming up but I was nervous once the match actually started”, said Federer, who is seeded 17, his lowest grand slam seeding since 2001.

The Canadian crowd favourite had a minor wobble midway through the first set before securing a convincing victory over her Chinese opponent, clearing the way for a contest against Pauline Parmentier or Coco Vandeweghe. “I don’t need to tell you where he’s beaten me”.

“I was injured back then and he obviously got booed because a little bit of his attitude”.

No. 19 John Isner, the highest-seeded United States player in the men’s draw, lost to Mischa Zverev 6-7 (4/7), 6-7 (4/7), 6-4, 7-6 (9/7), 9-7 and followed Johnson, Rubin and Harrison out.

After a week off, he took on the unsafe Illya Marchenko in the first round of the Open, recording a straight-sets win.

It is that kind of support that he gives all of the other British players, and Evans has seized his chance over the past year, guaranteeing a Top 50 ranking and a place in round three against Bernard Tomic. “Just have to wait and see”.

Having thrashed the 19-year-old Russian in the second set, he seemed to be cruising when he caught his toe on the court, ricked his right ankle and fell over backwards with a wince.

It was Murray’s 178th win in a Grand Slam match, joining Stefan Edberg at eighth on the list of match winners in the Open era.

Also, French Open champion Garbine Muguruza beat Samantha Crawford 7-5, 6-4 in a night match, while Venus Williams had a 6-3, 6-2 win over Stefanie Voegele and later withdrew from the doubles – she was scheduled to partner her sister, Serena.