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Video: Murray Turns Tide on Pospisil after Lung-Busting Rally


Andy Murray was made to work incredibly hard to get past Vasek Pospisil at the ABN Amro World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam today, but because of brilliant tennis like this Murray got through in straight sets, 6-3, 7-5.

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It took 32 minutes in the opening set for Murray to earn the first break point of the match, and Murray would take the 5-3 lead when Pospisil missed an aggressive forehand just wide.

Murray served out the set but things got a bit complicated for the world No. 4 immediately after.

He came up lame and grimacing after attempting a running backhand on the first point of the second set, but after some time he appeared to shake it off.

What Murray couldn’t shake off was the aggressive and athletic play of the Canadian. Murray would break to move ahead 3-2 in set two, but a resilient Pospisil would reply with a break to love to level at 3-all and another break to take a 5-3 lead.

But at set point in the next game, Murray put the screws to Pospisil on the above 30-stroke rally. After the point, umpire Cedric Mourier added insult to injury by tabbing Pospisil with his second time violation warning of the match, which meant that the Canadian would lose his first serve on the ensuing point.

"Obviously, the second set was a lot of momentum swings," said Murray, according to ATPworldtour.com. "I went up a break, was feeling good, but then I lost my serve to love in the next game. In the game after that I got broken to 15. Obviously, when he was serving for it he was in a great position. But we had a 30-shot rally on set point. It was a very physical rally, I was making him do more of the running and I think it took quite a lot out of him.”

Murray would follow through with the break, while Pospisil headed to his chair to give Mourier an old-fashioned x-rated berating.

The Canadian, though still battling, would not win another game. Murray, who struck 14 winners against 17 unforced errors on the day, would close affairs in 1:43, setting up a quarterfinal encounter with Gilles Simon.

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