World number three Andy Murray stretched his unbeaten run to 18 games by beating Andy Roddick 6-2, 6-2 at Bercy Arena to qualify for the last eight of the Paris Masters.
Murray had spoken of the importance of “getting inside” Roddick’s mighty serve and he broke the American in the opening game, before securing a second break with a stinging cross-court forehand to go 5-2 up.
A similar stroke brought him the set and Roddick wilted in the second set, smashing his racquet into the ground at one stage, as his opponent closed out a straightforward 62-minute victory.
Murray, the second seed, will face either Czech fifth seed Tomas Berdych or 11th-seeded Serbian Janko Tipsarevic for a place in the last four.
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