The British tennis player beat his American rival Denis Kudla in straight sets (6-3, 6-2) for the first round of the ATP 250 in San Diego. Now Murray will have to face the second top seed of the contest, the Norwegian Casper Ruud.
Andy Murray He was presented with another great opportunity to add confidence, after several weeks with results that he himself described as “disappointing.” However, the Scotsman reached the quarterfinals at Metz after defeating Ugo Humbert and Vasek Pospisil a few days ago. In this premiere, Dunblane’s had to cross with Kei Nishikori, but his rival ended up changing a few hours after the duel.
For its part, Denis Kudla He just entered the box as Lucky Loser, after the loss of Nishikori, despite having lost in the last round of the qualifying phase against the Italian Gaio. In his previous tournament, the 29-year-old American reached the semi-finals of the Cary 2 Challenger.
Murray debuts with everything
The game started with a lot of parity, without a clear dominator appearing in the first games. Murray showed absolute confidence when serving, especially when he could play with his first serve, winning almost 90% of those points. The first break would appear at 4-3, in favor of the British himself, who celebrated euphorically. Without doubting the definition, Andy closed the set 6-3.
Again a similar panorama for the second sleeve, with a struggling start. But again Murray managed to unbalance the score when he was 2-2, to begin to approach the victory step by step. Kudla could not find precision, and suffered more and more his turns to serve, unable to narrow the differences in the numerical. Things would become irreversible after a second break for the British. Finally, The former world No. 1 sealed the victory with a resounding 6-2.
