Andy Murray sneaks past Philipp Kohlschreiber and into fourth round of French Open
ANDY MURRAY sneaked past Philipp Kohlschreiber in five sets to advance to the fourth round of the French Open today.
Murray and Kohlschreiber returned to Court Suzanne Lenglen this afternoon after bad light had forced them to abandon play at 7-7 in the fifth set yesterday.
And it took Murray a further 40 minutes to seal a 3-6 6-3 6-3 4-6 12-10 victory and a date with Spaniard Fernando Verdasco.
The Scot revealed he had only been able to sleep for five hours, saying: "Last night was extremely tough. I did a lot of running, I was up a break in every set.
"Considering the circumstances I think we both played some good points.
"We were both pretty nervous. I didn't sleep much. I kept waking up.
We were both pretty nervous. I didn't sleep much. I kept waking up.
"I was ready to play at 4 or 5 in the morning. It's not easy coming back at 7-7 in the fifth set."
It was new territory for the Wimbledon champion, who had never been past 6-6 in a non-tie-break set before, while there were many indications on Friday that not all was well physically.
Murray seemed to be troubled by his left hamstring, pulling up alarmingly at one point, and called the trainer in the fifth set to have both thighs massaged.
He seemed to be moving fine on the resumption, though, and eventually overcame the stubborn Kohlschreiber to advance.