Miami Masters: Murray beats Etcheverry to avenge Australian Open defeat and make third round

Andy Murray advanced to the third round of the Miami Open by defeating Argentinian Tomas Martin Etcheverry, the No 29 seed, 7-6, 6-3 at the Hard Rock Stadium.

It is the first time in over seven months that Murray has recorded back-to-back wins and also means that he has avenged his flat first-round defeat at the Australian Open at the start of the year.

Murray, ranked No 62, will face Tomas Machac next.

Ahead of his victory, Andy Murray edged out Italian Matteo Berrettini (4-6, 6-3, 6-4).

Miami Masters 1000, other second-round results (Hard Rock Stadium, hard, USD 10.404.205, most recent results first):

• Martin Landaluce vs. Ben Shelton
• Yannick Hanfmann vs. Adrian Mannarino
• Fabian Marozsan vs. Holger Rune
• Jiri Lehecka vs. Alexei Popyrin
• Daniel Altmaier vs. Jan-Lennard Struff
• Alex De Minaur vs. SoonWoo Kwon
• Laslo Djere vs. Karen Khachanov
• Grigor Dimitrov vs. Alejandro Tabilo
• Gael Monfils vs. Jordan Thompson
• Carlos Alcaraz vs. Roberto Carballes Baena
• Francisco Cerundolo vs. Sebastian Ofner
• Daniel Evans vs. Christopher Eubanks
• Lorenzo Musetti vs. Roman Safiullin
• Alexander Shevchenko vs. Hubert Hurkacz
• Alexander Zverev vs. Felix Auger-Aliassime
• Sebastian Korda vs. Roberto Bautista Agut
• Cameron Norrie vs. Flavio Cobolli
• Marton Fucsovics vs. Daniil Medvedev: saturday
• Alexander Bublik vs. Matteo Arnaldi: saturday
• Casper Ruud vs. Luca Van Assche: saturday
• Andrea Vavassori vs. Jannik Sinner: saturday
• Juncheng Shang vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina: saturday
• Denis Shapovalov beat Stefanos Tsitsipas (10): 6-2, 6-4
• Thiago Seyboth Wild (Q) beat Taylor Fritz (12): 6-3, 6-4
• Dominik Koepfer beat Sebastian Baez (18): 6-3, 6-2
• Christopher O’Connell beat Frances Tiafoe (21): 7-5, 7-6 (5)
• Tallon Griekspoor (25) beat Alex Michelsen: 7-6 (5), 6-7 (7), 6-4
• Nicolas Jarry vs. Jack Draper: saturday
• Martin Damm (WC) beat Tommy Paul (13): 4-6, 2-1 ret.
• Ugo Humbert (14) beat Botic van de Zandschulp: 6-4, 6-3
• Tomas Machac beat Andrey Rublev (5): 6-4, 6-4