Murray Wins on First Singles Outing Since Wimbledon Defeat

Andy Murray advanced to the third round of the Rogers Cup with a straight sets victory over Sweden's Thomas Johansson in Toronto. The world No9, who as eight seed received a bye into the second round, was making his first singles appearance since losing in the quarter-final of Wimbledon to eventual champion Rafael Nadal, and won the first set with a decisive break in the 10th game.

The British No1 struggled with his serve throughout, dropping his opening two service games in the second set, before demonstrating his resilience to triumph over the 1999 Canadian Masters champion in one hour 38 minutes.

Murray missed an opportunity to break in world No64 Johansson's opening service game as the first set went with serve until the sixth game. The Swede, who reached a career-high ranking of seventh in 2002, converted his first break point but Murray immediately broke back. Murray then held serve and broke Johansson for the second successive service game to clinch the first set.

The Scot's second serve continued to trouble him, with Johansson breaking in the opening game of the second set before holding serve. Johansson then claimed a 3-0 lead with a further break, but relinquished control of the set by allowing Murray to break back. Murray held serve for the first time in the set in the fifth game and his comeback was complete when he broke Johansson again in the sixth. After each player held serve, Murray won another service game to go 5-4 up before breaking Johansson for a fifth time in the match to secure his third-round berth.

The 21-year-old Scot is scheduled to meet Switzerland's Stanislas Wawrinka later today. Wawrinka, one place behind Murray in the ATP world rankings, has won three out of five career meetings with Murray and was a 6-3, 6-4 second-round winner over Russia's Marat Safin.