May 27th, 2009 by Peter Bevan

Andy Murray won his second round match against Potito Starace at the Rolland Garros French Open, but it was far from a straight forward victory.

Andy Murray survived a four set battle, winning 6-3, 2-6, 7-5, 6-4 in two hours and 40 minutes. It took one break of serve in the fifth game for Andy Murray to win the first set, but in the second set Potito Starace took advantage of Andy Murray’s unforced errors and finally found his serving rhythm to win the second set convincingly.

In the third set, Potito Starace kept up the pace and was 5-1 up, but failed to be clinical with his dominance and could not win his set points at 5-2 and at 5-4. Andy Murray recovered to win six games in a row to win the third set.

Andy Murray’s momentum continued, winning break point at 4-4 before eventually winning the fourth set 6-4.

The third round opponent for Andy Murray is Janko Tipsarevic, who is going to need to recover from his 6-7 (9-11) 6-4 7-6 (7-4) 6-3 second round win against 28th seed Feliciano Lopez from earlier today, which lasted for almost four hours.

Other second round winners from today at the French Open include number seven seed Gilles Simon and number eight seed Fernando Verdasco.

The next Grand Slam tournament after the French Open is the 2009 Wimbledon tennis championships. British tennis fans can catch their favourite players in action at Wimbledon, which takes place from June 22.

Then the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals will be held in November at the London O2 Arena where only the top eight players will compete to become champion in this end-of-season tournament.

Wimbledon tickets and tickets for the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals are available to compare at tixdaq.com.