Great Britain's Andy Murray has had a comfortable time so far in the US Open, but he got a rude awakening in his third round match against Paolo Lorenzi, avoiding a potential upset to win 7-6, 5-7, 6-2, 6-2 in a game that lasted three hours and 17 minutes.

The 29-year-old who has looked in commanding form in the past two games, struggled against the Italian making 47 errors in the first two sets before turning the match around with a change of tactics. Murray came into the encounter with a 24-1 win/loss record and admitted that it took him some time to get used to his opponents game.
"It took me a bit longer than I would have liked to sort of work things out. But it worked out, won, got through and I didn't play good. So I'm happy with that. He's ranked 40 in the world. He's pretty good. So I expected a tough match. I expected long rallies. I'm just disappointed with the amount of errors I made. I was quite impatient at times. That cost me in the first and second sets", Murray said at the post match press conference.

"When I slowed things down and waited for the right shot to go for, my unforced errors went down, the winners went up and the scoreboard started working in my favour."