Having just faced Karen Khachanov - the 53rd ranked player in the world, Murray took the initiative. Set 1 was not too dramatic as the world No. 1 was a stable player, especially mentioning Murray's 100% passing efficiency. The result came in the 6th game when Murray won a break from the opponent and kept the advantage until the end of the set with a score of 6-3.
Set 2 was somewhat more dramatic than set 1 when the two players broke each other's breaks and temporarily tied at a score of 3-3. However, after that, thanks to making fewer mistakes, the English tennis player broke another serve game by Khachanov to get a 6-4 victory.
The development of set 3 is similar to set 2. The defending runner-up of the tournament immediately won a break in the first game. However, the Russian was able to erase the previous advantage in the eighth game to tie the score at 4-4 before Murray regained control of the game with two consecutive wins to end the set at 6-4.
With a 3-0 victory, Andy Murray entered the quarter-finals of Roland Garros. The next opponent he will have to overcome is the pride of Asia - Kei Nishikori. The Japanese tennis player needed 4 sets to defeat Fernando Verdasco with the scores of 0-6, 6-4, 6-4 and 6-0.
In the women's singles event, Simona Halep continued to show brilliant performance when easily crushing Suarez Navarro after 2 sets with the same score of 6-1 to win a place in the quarter-finals. Her opponent will be Elina Svitolina as the Ukrainian tennis player had an excellent comeback against Petra Matic with a score of 4-6, 6-3, 7-5.
