'Old boy' Murray pushes into Nottingham last eight

'Old boy' Andy Murray insists he is feeling fresh and ready for more matches after making it seven wins on the trot with a second round victory at the LTA's Rothesay Open Nottingham on Thursday night. Murray, riding a six match win streak after his triumph at the Lexus Surbiton Trophy and an opening round victory in Nottingham, faced little trouble as he dispatched world No.127 Huge Grenier 6-3 7-5 to set up a quarter-final meeting against eighth seed Dominic Stricker on Friday.

Ad The two-time Wimbledon champion has dropped just one set on grass courts so far this summer and will be a hot favourite against Swiss star Stricker, a 20-year-old former junior prodigy who beat Britain's Ryan Peniston 6-4 6-2 in the second round. TennisJodie Burrage shocks third seed in NottinghamAN HOUR AGO And although Murray prepares for an eighth match inside two weeks, the 36-year-old is ready to push on across the weekend despite the fitness issues that have dogged him in recent years.

«I feel like I moved well there. The matches haven't been too long, the final in Surbiton was quite a quick one and then the first round here as well, so I'm recovering well,» he said.

«It's been a lot of matches for me, and I'm an old boy now so it takes me a little bit longer to recover but I'm feeling good. »I love competing obviously.

At times I get frustrated but for me that's always been part of competing. I want to do my best and when I'm not doing that I obviously get frustrated with myself, but it was a really nice atmosphere today and hopefully that will keep progressing as we go along." Today's match against Grenier proved a different proposition for Murray than his first round win versus Joris De Loore, with the Frenchman having more grass