Andy Murray seals first straights sets win in 2023, Carlos Alcaraz sinks Thanasi Kokkinakis at Indian Wells

Andy Murray is through to the third round of Indian Wells after recording his first straights sets win in 2023 and his first since October 2022. The 35-year-old beat Moldova's Radu Albot 6-4 6-3 in in one hour and 42 minutes to set up a clash with fellow Brit Jack Draper in the next round who beat Dan Evans earlier in the day. Ad «I felt very nervous today.

I’m not sure exactly why,” Murray said in his on-court interview. ATP Indian Wells'Competing because they love the sport' — Murray's admiration for Gasquet, WawrinkaA DAY AGO »Obviously I’ve played a lot of tennis coming in, maybe I saw it was an opportunity for me. Maybe wasn’t as well prepared.

«I’d gone over my strategy and everything with my team to play Carreno Busta and then found out late last night the change of opponent. »We’d not played each other before, and maybe [I] thought it was a bit of an opportunity." “Had lots of break points again, wasn’t quite able to get them. It was quite tricky conditions at the beginning, very windy.

But I did well in the end to get through.” Murray was initially due to play Pablo Carreno Busta in the next round, but an elbow injury forced the Spaniard to make a late withdrawal and lucky loser Albot took his place. The former world No. 1 won 78 per cent of his first serve points and did not face a single break point en route to victory.

Murray also made just 18 unforced errors compared to Albot's 35. Raducanu into Indian Wells third round with win over Linette, Draper downs Evans Borg backs 'unbelievable' Djokovic for more success and expects Nadal to continue Top seed Carlos Alcaraz is also through to the third round after a comfortable 6-3 6-3 win over Thanasi Kokkinakis in one hour and 18 minutes. Alcaraz, who reached the