Murray takes 3 hours to get past the first round of "Dubai Tennis"
It took British tennis star Andy Murray nearly three hours to overcome the first round obstacle at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, after his difficult victory over Australian world number 158 Christopher O'Connell in two sets in one set (6-7, 6-3, 7-5). In a match that brought them together on the opening day of the 30th edition of the championship, which is currently being held at the “Dubai Duty Free” stadiums in the Garhoud area of Dubai, with a total prize money of approximately $1.83 million.
Murray, crowned in Dubai in the 2017 edition, suffered during the first set of meeting his Australian rival, especially after Christopher managed to maintain his serve and go with the group to the break-in game, which managed to settle his result (7-4) and snatched the group win by (7-6). ) with a time of one hour, before the second set witnessed the awakening of the Briton, who managed to break his opponent's serve on two occasions and decided the set by 6-3 in 40 minutes.
And the equalizer returned to impose itself in the third and decisive set, before the eleventh game witnessed Murray's success again in breaking Christopher's serve, and then settled the twelfth game, which led him to win the set by (7-5) in an hour and four minutes.
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