Surging Spaniard Juan Carlos Ferrero will have revenge in mind after reaching a third-round showdown with Scotland's world number three Andy Murray at the ATP Montreal Masters yesterday.

Former world number one and Roland Garros champion Ferrero, his career again taking flight at age 29, will face Murray for the third time since June and will hope to reverse his fortunes after two defeats.

BACK IN FORM: Juan Carlos Ferrero. PIC/AFP

Ferrero felled French 13th seed Gael Monfils 6-3, 7-6 (9/7) to notch his 30th victory of the season.

But the Spaniard lost to Murray at Queen's Club and a fortnight later in the Wimbledon quarter-finals.

"Playing Murray means that I'm playing well," said Ferrero. "It's going to be very tough. but I want this win.

He's very experienced in these kind of matches but I learned some things at the match at Wimbledon, so I will try to get better in the next one."

The fate of Murray's run towards the number two ATP ranking could be in the hands of the veteran. Murray needs to surpass the performance this week of Rafael Nadal to take over the second spot behind Switzerland's Roger Federer from the four-time French Open winner.

Other important results
Fernando Verdasco bt Leonardo Mayer 6-1, 6-1, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga bt Rainer Schuettler 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, Juan Martin Del Potro bt Jan Hernych 6-2, 7-5, Mikhail Youzhny bt John Isner 6-7 (8/10), 6-1, 6-3, Andy Roddick bt Igor Andreev 6-1, 7-6 (7/3), Gilles Simon bt Alejandro Falla 4-6, 6-2, 6-2, Stanislas Wawrinka bt Andrey Golubev 7-5, 6-4