Although he only had to face a player 49 places behind him on the ATP rankings, it seemed that the gap between Murray and his opponent in set 1 was not much. The runner-up of the tournament from the beginning played quite passively when struggling to fight back against their opponents.
Although he claimed an early break at the beginning of the set in the decisive game, when entering the tie-break, Murray was weaker and accepted defeat with a score of 6-7 (3-7).
But very soon after, the UK player regained his spirit to easily solve sets 2 and 3 with the same score of 6-2. Entering the decisive set 4, Murray could not control Klizan at his best as the Slovakian played more steadily and securely than ever.
The two players once again took each other to a brain-break tie-break. This time, Andy Murray did not let the first set scenario come back, instead, he played with determination and won 7-3 and closed the match.
Surpassing Martin Klizan with a score of 3-1, Murray continued his journey to conquer the highest position at Roland Garros. However, this journey promises to be full of thorns because the opponent waiting for him in round 3 is a "hard-working" tennis player " Juan Martin del Potro. Before that, Del Potro had a light victory over Nicolas Almagro 6-3, 3-6, 1-1 when the opponent gave up due to injury.
Another strong opponent for the championship title, Stan Wawrinka, also continued to win a ticket to the next round after defeating Alexandr Dolgopolov with the score of 6-4, 7-6 (7-5), 7-5. The biggest disappointment in the men's singles event was probably Thomas Berdych when the 13th seed unexpectedly conceded a goal against Karren Khachanov with a score of 5-7, 4-6, 4-6.
Meanwhile, the highly rated players in the women's singles also continue to show stable performance. Agnieszka Radwanska had an excellent comeback against Alison Van Uytvanck with a score of 6-7 (3-7), 6-2, 6-3 to register her name in round 3.
Similar to Radwanska, the No. 5 seed of the tournament, Elina Svitolina, also needed 3 sets to defeat Tsvetana Pironkova with a score of 3-6, 6-3, 6-2.
