Murray back in business
Andy Murray won his first hard court match in more than a year when he came back from a set down to beat American Mackenzie McDonald in the Washington Open first round.
The Dunblane ace, playing only his fourth match since hip surgery in January, came through 3-6 6-4 7-5, converting his seventh match point to win.
He now plays Kyle Edmond in the second round having lost to the British No.1 at Eastbourne recently.
“I’ll have to play much better if I want to win that match,”Murray said afterwards.“It will help having one more match under my belt.”
He was broken in two of his first three service games on the way to losing the opening set in 40 minutes against World No.80 McDonald.
In the second set, Murray, whose own world ranking has dropped to 832, broke in the ninth game to take a 5-4 lead and served out to take the match to a decider.
He was then 5-4 up and serving for the match in the third set but McDonald saved five match points then converted his second break point to draw level at 5-5.
But Murray immediately broke back before serving out to win.
Brother Jamie is playing in the doubles in Washington with Bruno Soares. The No.4 seeds had a first round victory over Karen Khachanov (Russia) and Lucas Pouille (France), winning 6-4 5-7 10-7.