Murray, Nadal reach third round at Wimbledon

London July 6 (IANS) Defending champion Andy Murray and 10-time French Open winner Rafael Nadal both moved to the third at Wimbledon with a straight-sets wins here on Wednesday.

World No 1 Murray took only an hour and 36 minutes to beat Germany s Dustin Brown 6-3 6-2 6-2 while Nadal who from 2012 to 2015 was defeated by players ranked respectively by No 100 No 135 No 144 and No 102 beat American Donald Young 6-4 6-2 7-5 to reach the last 32 for merely the second time since he was runner-up to Novak Djokovic here in 2011 Xinhua reported.

Until right at the end of the match the last three games when I did not serve particularly well the rest of the match I served well Murray said.

I was getting a lot of free points there. I served a lot bigger than I did in the first round which was good he was not able to attack my second serve like he tries to do. So that was positive.

I moved pretty well too. Against guys that play a lot of drop shots and come forward you need to move well and I did that.

Nadal will next play the No 30 seed Karen Khachanov in the third round while Murray takes on Fabio Fognini of Italy.

I think I m doing the right things but I do not know how deep I can go in the draw said Nadal who will once again become world No. 1 if he reaches the final here.

Seventh seed Marin Cilic beat German Florian Mayer 7-6 (3) 7-6 (5) 7-5; Japan s ninth seed Kei Nishikori fought off hard challenges to defeat Sergiy Stakhovsky 6-4 6-7 (7) 6-1 7-6 (6).

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