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Andy Murray eased into the quarter-finals of the Valencia Open yesterday with a 6-2, 6-4 win over Italian Fabio Fognini.
Murray had looked far from convincing on serve in disposing of Jurgen Melzer on Wednesday, but didn’t even face a break point as he set up a last-eight clash with South Africa’s Kevin Anderson.
The two-time Grand Slam champion had won only one of his previous three previous meetings with Fognini, including a defeat in the deciding rubber of the Davis Cup tie between Britain and Italy earlier this year.
However, the Scot raced into a 4-0 lead in the first set and even had a set point at 5-1 before serving it out 6-2.
Just one break was enough in the second set as Murray upped his intensity in the fifth game to break to 15.
Anderson had an easy route into the quarters as his scheduled opponent Martin Klizan withdrew, as did sixth seed Roberto Bautista Agut to hand Brazilian Thomaz Belluci a place in the last eight.
Home favourite Pablo Andujar continued where he left off in beating second seed Tomas Berdych on Wednesday with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Serbian Dusan Lajovic to set up a quarter-final meeting with compatriot Tommy Robredo.
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