Andy Murray overcame a first-set wobble to keep alive his hopes of a fourth Queen’s Club title with a 3-6 7-6 (2) 6-4 quarter-final victory over Luxembourg giant-killer Gilles Muller at the Aegon Championships today.
A day after Muller felled 2014 champion Grigor Dimitrov, the big-serving left hander looked to be on the verge of another shock as he overwhelmed the British top seed in the first set with some bullet-like serving before the pair went toe-to-toe in the second.
However, a misfired smash that flew wide in the tiebreak appeared to take the fight out of Muller and Murray levelled the contest to the delight of the cheering crowd at the pre-Wimbledon grasscourt event.
The Scot gave the partisan fans plenty more to cheer about when he broke Muller in the opening game of the third set and made sure he did not relinquish his advantage.
Muller saved Murray’s first match point with an ace but in the next game the 2013 Wimbledon champion brought up his second match point with a running crosscourt winner.
An unreturnable serve finished off the job and set up a semi-final date with American John Isner or Serb Viktor Troicki.
The other semi-final will feature Frenchman Gilles Simon against South African Kevin Anderson.
Simon knocked out Canadian third seed Milos Raonic 4-6 6-3 7-5 while Anderson beat Spaniard Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 7-6 (7) 7-5.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald