Andy Murray records biggest win in 10 months with victory over Etcheverry at Miami Open

Sir Andy Murray has recorded his biggest win in more than 10 months after upsetting No. 29 seed Tomas Martin Etcheverry in the second round of the Miami Open on Saturday afternoon.

His 7-6 (0), 6-3 victory over the world No. 30 is his first win over a Top 30 player since defeating a No. 17-ranked Tommy Paul in the final of the Aix-en-Provence Challenger on May 7th of last year.

He’s now through to the third round of an ATP event for the first time since the Masters 1000 event in Canada last August.

Murray and Etcheverry actually began their second-round match on Friday, trading holds for six games until 3-all, when the rain started falling and proceedings were suspended for the night.

The two returned to the court on Saturday and after three more holds, Etcheverry brought up the first set point with Murray serving at 4-5, 30-40—but the three-time Grand Slam champion played one of the points of the match to save it, following up a pinpoint crosscourt forehand with a perfect drop shot and, after Etcheverry retrieved it, popping a backhand volley into the open court.

Murray held for 5-all, then Etcheverry held for 6-5, and then the former world No. 1 caught fire—he won the next 15 points in a row to hold at love for 6-all, storm through the tie-break at love and then hold at love again in the first game of the second set.

He eventually got the only break of the match to go up 4-2 in the second set and held from there until he crossed the finish line.

The Murray serve was the shot of the day, producing 10 aces to just one double fault—he also won an incredible 15 of 17 points at net and fought off all seven break points he faced in the match.

Awaiting Murray in the third round in Miami will be No. 60-ranked Czech Tomas Machac, who got his second-round win in on Friday before the rain began, stunning No. 6-ranked Andrey Rublev in straight sets, 6-4, 6-4, for the first Top 10 win of his career.

Murray and Machac have faced each other once before, just a few months ago in the first round of the indoor hard-court event in Marseille, in fact, with Machac emerging victorious, 7-5, 6-4.

Murray is a two-time champion in Miami in 2009 and 2013.