Murray falls in 1st match in the USA

Not a glorious start of the American summer for Andy Murray.

The Scott was seeded no.1 in Washington to immediately crash out in the opener at the hands of world no.53 Teymuraz Gabashvili.

The key moment was when Andy failed to serve out the match when he was 5-4 in the decider to be immediately broken back and then lose 6-4, 3-6, 7-6(4) after 2 hours and 432 minutes. Match Stats.

Murray: I didn’t return well

Andy commented “I normally back myself to return a little bit better than I did. I think in the tie-break I don’t think I put one return in the court when he was serving. I feel like I didn’t do a good enough job of putting enough first serve points in the court. It’s  obviously a disappointing match to lose but it wasn’t like I was blown off the court in a match that I had no chance of winning. I feel like I put myself in a position to win the match. It was the first hard-court match for four-and-a-half months with only four or five days of preparation so I was happy with how I moved and did certain things on court.”

Next stop Montreal…