Murray makes Round One exit in Montreal

World No 4 Andy murray blames sluggish start for Round One exit in Montreal

Murray makes Round One exit in Montreal

World No 4 Andy Murray blames sluggish start for Round One exit in Montreal

Murray, the World No 4, served five double faults in the second-round match, and his opponent, ranked 31 places below him, refused to allow the Scot to settle.

Andy Murray reacts after losing a point against Kevin Anderson of South
Africa during the Rogers Cup in Montreal, Canada yesterday. Pic/AFP

The 25-year-old Anderson played with an intensity and aggression that prevented Murray from finding any rhythm, and won in an hour and 10 minutes. Murray said: "It's just a really bad day. It's happened to me a couple times this year and also last year, as well.

"I just felt very slow. I couldn't get anything going. I started both sets really, really badly which doesn't help against someone that serves like Kevin."

"Today I couldn't get anything going. I started both sets really, really badly which doesn't help against someone that serves like Kevin.

"I was down a break early. I didn't get anything going at all."

Anderson told Sky Sports 4: "I knew I had to come in. I played some good points and I won the majority of those."

World No 1 Novak Djokovic was left frustrated when rain meant his match against Nikolay Davydenko had to be put back to Wednesday.

Play was suspended during American John Isner's match against Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis, with Isner leading 6-3 0-1.

Plenty of first-round matches were completed though, with 10th-seeded Frenchman Richard Gasquet a resounding 6-3 6-2 winner over Germany's Florian Mayer.

But Gasquet's countryman, ninth seed Gilles Simon, went out to another German. He lost 7-5 6-2 to Phillip Petzschner.

Another seed, number 11 Mikhail Youzhny from Russia, lost 3-6 6-3 7-6 (7-4) to France's Michael Llodra. Serbia's 12th seed Victor Troicki fell behind against American Michael Yani before pulling off a 2-6 6-3 6-1 victory.

There were also wins for American Michael Russell, Ukraine's Sergiy Stakhovsky, Serbian Janko Tipsarevic and, to the home crowd's delight, Canadian Vasek Pospisil. Their victims, respectively, were Spain's Albert Montanes, German Phillip Kohlschreiber, Colombian Alejandro Falla and Argentinian Juan Ignacio Chela.

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