Thursday 2 July 2015 19:47, UK
After Andy Murray swept aside Robin Haase 6-1 6-1 6-4 to reach the third round at Wimbledon, we look at five talking points from the match.
Fully focused
There were times in Murray’s opening win against Mikhail Kukushkin when it looked like he let his level drop just as he seemed about to seize control of the contest.
That was certainly not the case against Haase as the 2013 champion maintained a consistently high level throughout the match.
His only slight blip was in the fourth game of the second set when he gave the Dutchman a break-point chance with a couple of below-par shots.
But he recovered quick enough to hold serve and then remained a level above Haase even as he started to throw more caution to the wind in the third set.
"That was the sort of match I was expecting at the end of the second and the third set where he was making it tough," said Murray.
"We were playing some longer rallies. He has good variety in his game so there were some fun points."
Breaking point
While Haase was inconsistent, Murray was clinical, particularly when faced with break-point chances.
After converting five of seven against Kukushkin in his opening match, the third seed won six of eight against Haase.
Such was the one-sided nature of the match that it might not have mattered if he had let some slip, but such ruthlessness will stand him in good stead for the tougher tests later in the tournament.
Murray was also clinical at the net, winning 15 of 17 points when he came up to volley.
Dutchman fails to deliver
Haase talked the talk beforehand but failed to back it up on Court One as he was well below the level required to even compete with Murray.
The Dutchman did improve in the third set as he threw caution to the wind but 27 unforced errors tell their own story.
He rarely looked like troubling Murray’s serve, failing to convert his one break point, and did not help his own efforts on serve with six double faults.
The world no 78 has beaten Stan Wawrinka, Feliciano Lopez and Ivo Karlovic this year so this was a disappointing display from the 28-year-old.
Serving stronger
Even though Murray breezed through the opening set in 20 minutes, his first-serve percentage was only 38%.
That improved in the second set to 66% as the Brit also managed to find his rhythm with four aces.
His second serve, which is one of the weaker areas of his game, was also improved.
He won all eight points behind it in the opening set and won 66% points on his second serve throughout the match.
If he can match those stats throughout the tournament it will serve him well.
Who's next?
Murray will meet his first seed of the tournament in round three in the form of Andreas Seppi who beat Croatian teenager Borna Coric on Thursday.
Still, the 25th-seeded Italian should not pose Murray too many problems.
The Brit has won their last six meetings without dropping a set and Seppi has never made it past the fourth round of a major.
However, he did manage to put a fine run together at the Gerry Weber Open in Halle where he reached the final, only to lose out to Roger Federer - the man he knocked out of the Australian Open earlier in the year.
