Murray faces Tomic in Barcelona Open
In the top half of the draw, Tomic set up a second-round encounter with world No 1 Murray by seeing off the maverick talents of Germany’s Dustin Brown.
A thrilling three-set contest saw both men find a string of winners, before Tomic clinched the win with a 7-5 4-6 6-2 triumph.
It means the Australian will face Murray for a fifth time having lost the four previous encounters without winning a set.
Murray accepted a wild card over the weekend after his early defeat in Monte Carlo and will face Tomic on Wednesday, on the courts where he made his professional debut more than 10 years ago.
He played and lost his first professional match as a 17-year-old at the tournament in 2005, losing to Jan Hernych, and he will hope to build on the success he had on the clay courts last year.
Murray won the Rome Masters having reached the final in Madrid and the semi-final in Monte Carlo in 2016 and he has work to do after his third-round defeat to Albert Ramos-Vinolas, a possible quarter-final opponent this week, in the Principality last week.
POSTED BY:OPUOMONI PRIYE
DATE:04/26/2017
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