Murray beats Cameron Norrie to reach China Open quarter nals

ANDY Murray reached his first sin les uarter final in a ear b beatin fello riton ameron orrie in the second round of the hina pen.

fter t o ti ht sets ta en on tie brea s, Murra raced throu h the decider to in after nearl three hours in ei in .

t is the first time he has on t o strai ht our sin les matches since hip resurfacin sur er in anuar .

Murra ill ne t face ustrian top seed ominic hiem or hina s han hi hen.

he three time rand lam champion, , ser ed for the first set at , but orrie bro e bac to force a tie brea , also then sa in three set points before he double faulted to hand Murra the opener.

ritish number three orrie, , sur ed into a lead in the second before Murra responded to ta e it to a tie brea onl to o do n .

Murra loudl admonished himself follo in errors and told his coachin team he as er poor” after the first set.

et the cot as mo in ell, loo in to ha e reco ered after his impressi e in o er Matteo errettini on uesda , and on and of points on his first and second ser e respecti el .

nd orrie had no ans er to Murra s po er and placement in the decider, the former orld number one brea in t ice to rap up ictor .

Murra ill no ha e a da off before pla in his last ei ht tie on rida .

is last our sin les uarter final appearance as a defeat b paniard ernando erdasco at the hen hen pen in eptember .