Stat of the Day: Andy Murray now has the 5th-most hard-court wins for a man in the Open Era

Two days ago, Andy Murray won a three-hour, 12-minute marathon against Tomas Martin Etcheverry in the first round of Indian Wells, 6-7 (5), 6-1, 6-4, to improve to 7-0 in deciding sets this year.

And with his 6-4, 6-3 second-round victory over Radu Albot on Saturday, Murray keeps the stats coming—two of them, in fact.

Firstly, his victory over the Moldovan was the 491st hard-court win of his career, which moves him up to No. 5 for most hard-court wins for a man in the Open Era, passing Jimmy Connors’ 490.

TOP 5 MOST HARD-COURT WINS IN OPEN ERA (men, tour-level):
783: Roger Federer
670: Novak Djokovic
592: Andre Agassi
516: Rafael Nadal
491: Andy Murray
(490: Jimmy Connors)

Secondly, it was also the 725th win of his career across all surfaces, which moves him up to No. 15 for most career wins for a man in the Open Era, surpassing Manuel Orantes’ 724.

TOP 15 MOST CAREER WINS IN OPEN ERA (men, tour-level):
1,274: Jimmy Connors
1,251: Roger Federer
1,068: Ivan Lendl
1,068: Rafael Nadal
1,046: Novak Djokovic
951: Guillermo Vilas
908: Ilie Nastase
883: John McEnroe
870: Andre Agassi
801: Stefan Edberg
799: Arthur Ashe
779: Stan Smith
762: Pete Sampras
734: David Ferrer
725: Andy Murray
(724: Manuel Orantes)

Murray was originally scheduled to play No. 15 seed Pablo Carreno Busta on Saturday, but the Spaniard withdrew from the tournament with an elbow injury and was replaced by lucky loser Albot—the late switch was one of a few reasons Murray didn’t feel quite at his best.

“I felt very nervous today, not sure exactly why,” he said. “Obviously I’ve played a lot of tennis coming in. Maybe I saw it as an opportunity for me, and maybe wasn’t as well-prepared—I’d gone over my strategy and everything with my team to play Carreno Busta, and then found out late last night about the change of opponent.

“We’d not played each other before, and yeah, maybe saw it as a bit of an opportunity. I had lots of break points again, wasn’t quite able to get them. It was tricky conditions in the beginning too, quite windy.

“But yeah, I did quite well to get through.”

Awaiting Murray in the third round is an all-British match-up against Jack Draper, who won an all-British second-round match-up against No. 24 seed Dan Evans earlier in the day, 6-4, 6-2.

Murray and Draper, ranked No. 55 and No. 56, respectively, will be playing each other on the tour for the first time.