As so often, Andy Murray knew what he was talking about.

“I do feel there will be a lot of upsets,” Murray said just before the men’s tennis tour ended its five-month hiatus.

On a steamy Monday in Queens, he went out and proved himself right by upsetting the No. 5 seed Alexander Zverev, 6-3, 3-6, 7-5, in the second round of the Western & Southern Open in Mason, Ohio.

“It would have been a tough one to lose,” said the unseeded Murray, who surrendered a 4-1 third-set lead before Zverev’s shaky serve and Murray’s grit and talent finally made the difference.

In their only previous match, Murray’s breeze of a straight-set victory over Zverev was anything but a surprise. It came in the first round of the Australian Open in 2016 when Zverev was still a teenager and Murray, on his way to a knighthood and a No. 1 ranking, was still an uncontested member of the so-called Big Four, along with Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic.

Source: New York Times

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