24 February,2009 10:27 AM IST | | AFP
Andy Murray, who injured an ankle while winning the Rotterdam tournament the week before last, appeared to have injured it again while reaching the second round of the Dubai Open in an oddly ironic finish. It was an ankle injury which brought the match to end just two points from a conventional finish though it was not Murray who quit with the problem, but his opponent Sergiy Stakhovsky. In the end, the score read 6-7 (3/7), 6-3, 5-3, retired.
The Ukrainian had treatment on his left ankle at 5-4 in the first set and before the penultimate game when he walked to the net and shook hands at love-30 in the last game.
Meanwhile, Leander Paes and partner Lukas Dlouhy lost in a tough three-setter to Ivo Karlovic and Simone Bolelli in the first round. After losing the first set, Paes and Dlouhy came back strongly but eventually lost 4-6, 6-2, 10-8.
