When is andy murray playing ferrer

Photograph: Epa. It was ugly, tense and thrilling — as with nearly every match between Andy Murray and David Ferrer — and for the 13th time the Scot prevailed, exhausted after three hours and 19 minutes on Rod Laver Arena, relieved to be in the semi-finals of the Australian Open.

Murray won , , , but might have wrapped it up in three had he not faltered in the tie-break. A turning point arrived when organisers closed the roof near the beginning of the third set, which pleased Murray and seriously upset Ferrer. I like playing indoors. I grew up in Scotland. He double-faulted for deuce but held for and the player who has taken him to four sets in each of their four grand slam encounters looked more vulnerable than at any time in the tournament.

Ferrer always comes well prepared, though. He fights so hard in every single match. And now they were joined in battle for the 19th time, Murray a winner 12 already, three in slams.

There was no immediate evidence of it, and Ferrer fashioned a break point at the first time of asking in the second set, Murray making it easy for him with his second double-fault. When Ferrer won an all-out hitting battle for after 10 minutes, the match took on a slightly different complexion.

Murray needed to mix up the pace and style of the exchanges if Ferrer was not to settle into a familiar grinding rhythm at the back of the court.

Murray messed up a break point that would have put him within sight of a two-set lead, and Ferrer held to extend the fight. Murray needed an ace to save the set, and another to hold for , the most timely rediscovery of his serve. There was further distraction and woe at the start of the third, when Murray complained about the lingering TV image on the big screen during play. He now had two opponents: himself and Ferrer. But then he got a break — literally: shortly after forcing Ferrer to net a routine backhand for , Murray turned to see tournament director Craig Tiley walk on to announce the roof would be closed because of advancing thunder and lightning.

There were away for only nine minutes, pretty much cutting the match into two halves. The roof was on and the ball would bounce lower and slower, slightly favouring Murray, who learned his early tennis indoor on hardcourts in Scotland, but he had to save break point again after his fifth and sixth double-faults.

He looked suitably hot and bothered; at least the air-conditioning had clicked in to cool the arena under the roof. Soon enough, Ferrer, whose game was slowly unravelling, gifted him the set when he misjudged a charge and netted. The struggle was now mostly his. The rallies are often quite long, so you can get into a rhythm against him. So that was good. After dropping his serve to love in the opening game the Spaniard capitalised on a string of unforced errors by Wawrinka, whose frustration was evident when he twice threw his racket as he dropped serve in the eighth game of the first set.

With that in mind the Scot was happy to report that he had come through his latest change of playing surface without any physical problems. For the last four weeks he has been alternating between hard courts and clay — the latter will be the playing surface in Ghent — and has avoided the back problems he has experienced in such circumstances in the past.

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