{"id":17398,"date":"2013-01-17T12:12:55","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T10:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/murray-cool-in-aussie-heat\/"},"modified":"2013-01-17T12:12:55","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T10:12:55","slug":"murray-cool-in-aussie-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/murray-cool-in-aussie-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"Murray cool in Aussie heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Murray did little more than he had to in reaching the third round of the Australian Open with a workmanlike 6-2, 6-3, 6-4 win in an hour and 41 minutes over the outclassed young Portuguese Joao Sousa in heat that would have tested a camel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the past five years I\u2019ve prepared for this tournament in Miami, where it\u2019s very hot, so I was ready for this heat,\u201d Murray said.<\/p>\n<p>He served to a high level, with 14 aces and 80% success on his first serve. His second serve brought him a respectable 66% return but his work at the net was flawless as he volleyed nine clear winners from as many visits. He couldn\u2019t ask for much more.<\/p>\n<p>The Scot\u2019s next match is a first-time encounter with the 22-year-old Lithuanian Ricardas Berankis, whose earlier straight sets win over the 25th seed Florian Mayer in marginally cooler conditions was something of a minor surprise.<\/p>\n<p>Although Murray knows him well \u2013 \u201cI practised with him a couple of weeks ago\u201d \u2013 they have never met competitively. So another foray into uncharted waters for Murray, against the son of a taxi driver and post office worker from Vilnius. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/sport\/2013\/jan\/17\/australian-open-2013-andy-murray\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Murray did little more than he had to in reaching the third round of the Australian Open with a workmanlike 6-2, 6-3, 6-4 win in an hour and 41 minutes over the outclassed young Portuguese Joao Sousa in heat that would have tested a camel. \u201cFor the past five years I\u2019ve prepared for this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-17398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}