Andy Murray achieved a remarkable result by knocking the fourth seed Alexander Zverev out of the Qatar Open, forcing his way into the quarter-finals in Doha.
The 35-year-old Scot produced a performance of customary grit to edge past Zverev 7-6 (5), 2-6, 7-5 in a gruelling contest lasting more than three hours.
His reward is a last-eight match against French qualifier Alexandre Müller on Thursday. Speaking on court, Murray said: “Obviously I would like to win the matches quicker, but Alex is a top player, he’s a great competitor.
He always fights right to the end – it’s one of his biggest strengths – so even once I got that tight first set, he kept going for it, and in the third set I was really hanging on. “He was creating more of the chances and was the better player for large parts of that.