{"id":22597,"date":"2013-09-13T14:21:06","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T12:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/murray-eases-to-win-in-great-britain-davis-cup-opener\/"},"modified":"2013-09-13T14:21:06","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T12:21:06","slug":"murray-eases-to-win-in-great-britain-davis-cup-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/murray-eases-to-win-in-great-britain-davis-cup-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Murray eases to win in Great Britain Davis Cup opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=16614\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16614\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-16614 \" alt=\"Croatia's Borna Coric and Great Britain's Andy Murray shake hands. Photo: Andrew Boyers \/ Action Images\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/cd6e5_Andy-Murray-Borna-Coric-008.jpg\" width=\"414\" height=\"248\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Croatia\u2019s Borna Coric and Great Britain\u2019s Andy Murray shake hands. Photo: Andrew Boyers \/ Action Images<\/p>\n<p>Andy Murray gave Great Britain a winning start in their Davis Cup tie against Croatia with a 6-3 6-0 6-3 victory over 16-year-old Borna Coric.<\/p>\n<p>The teenager, who won the US Open boys\u2019 title, made the Wimbledon champion work hard for the first set \u2013 the second game contained a 57-shot rally.<\/p>\n<p>Murray broke Coric in the eighth game and then went on to win the next seven games, taking the second set 6-0.<\/p>\n<p>The Croat broke the Scot in the third, but Murray fought back to seal victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought the first five or six games were tough,\u201d said the 2012 US Open men\u2019s champion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to make the points long and challenging for him, physically. Maybe I was trying to play with too much spin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce I got the break, I won a few games in a row. <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/murrays-bad-court-attitude\/\" target=\"_blank\">I lost my concentration a bit at start of the third but saw it through<\/a>. It was OK \u2013 it could be better.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Sport<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more Andy Murray news,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/tag\/andy-murray\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more breaking sporting news and views, visit MySport24 on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MySport24\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mysport24?ref=hl\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/f2105_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Croatia\u2019s Borna Coric and Great Britain\u2019s Andy Murray shake hands. Photo: Andrew Boyers \/ Action Images Andy Murray gave Great Britain a winning start in their Davis Cup tie against Croatia with a 6-3 6-0 6-3 victory over 16-year-old Borna Coric. The teenager, who won the US Open boys\u2019 title, made the Wimbledon champion work [&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-22597","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\/22597","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=22597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}