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5/4/11 8:57 PM | Ricky Dimon
Andy Murray bagels Gilles Simon in the third set on Wednesday to reach the Madrid third round. Murray will go up against Thomaz Bellucci for a spot in the quarterfinals.
Andy Murray mirrored David Ferrer's round-two performance and bounced back from a second-set hiccup to deliver a flawless third set, beating Gilles Simon 6-4, 3-6, 6-0 in the second round of the Mutua Madrid Open. Murray needed two hours and 23 minutes to set up a meeting with Thomaz Bellucci.
The fourth-ranked Scot had already been dominating the head-to-head series with Simon 5-1 and he cruised 6-3, 6-3 last month in Monte-Carlo. For a while it looked like this one would be similarly routine. Murray donated his own serve once in the first set, but he made up for it with two breaks of his own before closing things out at 5-4.
Simon, though, recovered in the second and made it competitive. The 20th-ranked Frenchman picked up the pace on serve and seized his second break of the day at 3-3. That was all Simon needed to force a third, which he secured with a routine service hold at 5-3.
Just as Ferrer had righted the ship for a 7-5, 0-6, 6-0 victory over Adrian Mannarino, Murray also completely turned the tide. Madrid's No. 4 seed did not lose a single game in the third, although it was not quite as lopsided as the score suggests. Murray had to save multiple break points at 2-0 and 4-0 (five in total) before his fifth break of the evening finished off Simon in style.
Simon wrapped up his effort with four aces and two double-faults while saving 10 of 15 break points. Murray fired seven aces and thwarted eight of 10 break-point chances.
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