Murray relishing ‘big challenge’ against Medvedev in Miami

Murray is looking forward to facing Daniil Medvedev in the second round of the Miami Open today after advancing past Federico Delbonis in straight sets on Thursday.

The Scot battled to take the opening set in a tie-breaker before running away with the second in a 7-6 (4), 6-1 victory.

Neither player was able to gain an early advantage in a first set which did not feature a single break point.

The tie-breaker then carried on in a similar vein until Murray was able to take a 6-4 advantage on an unforced error from Delbonis, which the Argentinian followed up with a double fault.

The three-time grand slam champion went up an immediate break in the second and never looked like losing from there as his win set up a meetandy ing with the Australian Open runner-up.

Speaking after the match, Murray said he was relishing the clash with Medvedev.

"Obviously a tough match," he said. "He's played extremely well on the hard courts the last few seasons. He deserves to be right up there at the top of the game.

"It'll be a big challenge for me, it'll be a great test. I've got a big training block after this tournament, and it'll be a really good test for where my game's at and things I need to work on as well against him. So I'm looking forward to that."

Meanwhile, Cameron Norrie touted Jack Draper as a top-10 player of the future after withstanding a strong challenge from his young compatriot to reach the third round in miami.

Draper, 20, has won three titles on the second-tier Challenger Tour this season to leap into the top 150 and he made it 11 victories in a row against veteran Gilles Simon in round one to claim a first Masters tournament victory. That set up an intriguing clash with British No 1 Norrie, who is on course to break into the top 10 for the first time after this tournament, and the 26-year-old battled to a 7-6 (5), 6-4 victory.

Speaking to Amazon Prime Video, Norrie said of Draper: "I'm excited to see how he's going to do in the future.

"I think if he can play week in, week out he's going to have a very, very good career and I'm sure he can get easily top 10 for me."