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Erste Bank Open: Andy Murray - a Viennese in spirit

Andy Murray plays today in the second round of the Erste Bank Open 2021 against Carlos Alcaraz (from 5:30 p.m. live on TV and livestream on ServusTV and in our match tracker). The Briton has won every match he has played in Vienna so far.

by Jens Huiber
last edit: Oct 27, 2021, 09:52 am

Andy Murray - so far an unsolved mystery for his opponents in Vienna
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Andy Murray - so far an unsolved mystery for his opponents in Vienna

First of all we want to leave the church in the village. Even if the village is as enormous as Vienna. If Andy Murray were given the choice of which city he would like to work in, the choice would still be London. Because of the convenient and private circumstances. But anyone who heard Murray rave about the Austrian capital at the press conference late on Monday evening after his success against Hubert Hurkacz, feels that Andy Murray is a Viennese in spirit.

Architecture and cuisine are now a matter of taste, after all, everyone likes their own style. The fact that the three-time Grand Slam champion has not lost a match in the city hall certainly contributes to the happiness of the three-time Grand Slam champion. In the first triumph in 2014, Murray completed four successful games as well as two years later in the second coup. The Scot only got into trouble twice: In the final against David Ferrer seven years ago - and on Monday against Hurkacz, who had already been ahead with a break in the third set.

Murray starts season with a Challenger

The win against the Poles was Murray's first against a top ten man after the injury break. However, there weren't too many chances to do so, as Murray also noted in his PK. In the current season, which Andy Murray started with a Challenger in Biella, exactly five: in Rotterdam against Andrey Rublev (then number 8), in the Queen's Club in London against Matteo Berrettini (9), at the US Open against Stefanos Tsitsipas (3), in San Diego againstCasper Ruud (10) and most recently in Indian Wells against Alexander Zverev (4).

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Experts have no doubt that Murray's second-round opponent in Vienna will also be a member of the top ten in the not too distant future: Carlos Alcaraz, at only 18 years of age, has everything that makes a champion. The 34-year-old demonstrated in Indian Wells, where he defeated Alcaraz in three sets, that an old fox like Murray still has a chance.

But the surroundings also speak for the old master: The center court in the town hall is one of the most beautiful on the tour. And the success of Alcaraz against Murray's compatriot Daniel Evans in round one was ultimately also a first for the young Spaniard. Advantage Murray, huh?

Here are all of Andy Murray's matches at the Erste Bank Open

Year / lapopponentresult
2014, round of 16 Vasek Pospisil 6: 4, 6: 4
2104, quarter-finals Jan-Lennard Struff 6: 2, 7: 5
2014, semi-finals Viktor Troicki 6: 4, 6: 3
2014, final David Ferrer 5: 7, 6: 4, 7: 5
2016, round one Martin Klizan 6: 3, 6: 7 (5), 6: 0
2016, round of 16 Gilles Simon 4: 6, 6: 2, 6: 2
2016, quarter-finals John Isner 6: 1, 6: 3
2016, semi-finals David Ferrer Where
2016, final Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6: 3, 7: 6 (6)
2021, round one Hubert Hurkacz 6: 4, 6: 7 (6), 6: 3

Here the single tableau in Vienna

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by Jens Huiber

Wednesday
Oct 27, 2021, 09:55 am
last edit: Oct 27, 2021, 09:52 am