Murray downs Shapovalov in Dubai for 500th hard-court win
Andy Murray won against Denis Shapovalov 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-3 on Monday afternoon. He’ll play the winner of the match between wildcard Gael Monfils and No 5 seed Ugo Humbert in the next round
Andy Murray moved into the second round of the Dubai Open by beating Canadian Denis Shapovalov 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-3 at the Aviation Club Tennis Centre on Monday afternoon.
Murray, ranked No 67, will face the winner of the match between wildcard Gael Monfils and No 5 seed Ugo Humbert next.
It’s just his second win of the year but his 500th win on Tour, putting him in a select group alongside Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Andre Agassi and Rafael Nadal to achieve the feat.
“Yeah, it’s not bad,” Murray said. “Obviously hard courts has been a great surface for me over the years and 500 is a lot of matches. I’m very proud of that. The list…there’s not many players who have done that. Great to get to 500 before I’m done.”
Dubai ATP 500, other first-round results (Aviation Club Tennis Centre, hard, USD 2.941.785, most recent results first):
- Sumit Nagal vs. Lorenzo Sonego
- Daniil Medvedev vs. Alexander Shevchenko
- Jakub Mensik vs. Borna Coric
- Alexei Popyrin vs. Karen Khachanov
- Lorenzo Musetti vs. Arthur Cazaux
- Maximilian Marterer vs. Christopher O’Connell
- Jiri Lehecka vs. Marton Fucsovics
- Gael Monfils vs. Ugo Humbert
- Fabian Marozsan vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
- Hubert Hurkacz vs. Jan-Lennard Struff
- Tallon Griekspoor vs. Abdullah Shelbayh
- Zhizhen Zhang vs. Andrey Rublev
- Alexander Bublik vs. Tomas Machac: monday
- Botic van de Zandschulp beat Adrian Mannarino (6): 7-6 (3), 7-5
- Sebastian Korda beat Pavel Kotov: 6-0, 6-2