Murray demolishes Troicki

Andy Murray effortlessly brushed aside a nervy Viktor Troicki, to win his third-round match in straight sets in just over 90 minutes. Murray won 6-2, 6-3, 6-4, setting up a fourth-round match tomorrow against Stanislas Wawrinka, Switzerland’s No 2 and world No 18.

As Murray broke for the first time at 3-2 the Serb crumbled, losing seven games in a row. At one point he responded with a great yelp. Despite the threat of thunderstorms in the Wimbledon area during the match, the rain never came and Centre Court's new roof stayed open, leaving Troicki to howl into the wind.

Following yesterday's third round, the men's last 16 matches on Monday will include: Hewitt v Stepanek, Berdych v Roddick, Murray v Wawrinka, Ferrero v Simon, Andreev v Haas, Sela v Djokovic, Verdasco v Ivo Karlovic and Soderling v Federer.

WHAT THEY ARE SAYING:Barry Flatman, the Sunday Times: "The difference in class was obvious from the first point. Most of Troicki’s game is based on a heavy serve, summoned out of a muscular but hardly aesthetic action. Standing, at 6ft 4in, an inch taller than Murray, his initial plan was to bludgeon some spirit out of the Scot but that soon proved a futile exercise. Such was the quality of Murray’s game that he failed to make only five returns in the first two sets."

Mark Hodgkinson, Sunday Telegraph: "They could have played this outdoors, indoors, in any sort of weather conditions, and Murray would still have obliterated Troicki, as the 22-year-old was in that sort of mood, making the most of his opponent’s poor start, poor middle and poor end to the match."

Euan Ferguson, in the Observer: "Murray provokes in this audience many things, not all good: but one very good one is hope. There's a qualitative difference in mood here from the Henman years: no plethora of flags and teddy bears and misery. No Saltires, even: only, at 6.10, when the Scot finally appeared as clouds seriously began to lour, did the first union flag appear, complete with the odd lettering "Andy - show us your guns!" Instead, this new British hope provokes exactly that: hope. A quieter, less mad, more steely kind of hope." ·