{"id":12989,"date":"2024-01-30T04:05:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T04:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/andy-murray-beaten-in-montpellier-but-katie-boulter-wins-to-reach-linz-open-second-round\/"},"modified":"2024-01-30T04:05:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T04:05:10","slug":"andy-murray-beaten-in-montpellier-but-katie-boulter-wins-to-reach-linz-open-second-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/andy-murray-beaten-in-montpellier-but-katie-boulter-wins-to-reach-linz-open-second-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Murray beaten in Montpellier but Katie Boulter wins to reach Linz Open second round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-hmf8ql-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Andy Murray suffered a first-round exit at the Open Sud de France in Montpellier, but Katie Boulter won to reach the Linz Open second round.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Murray was beaten 2-6, 7-6 (7-5), 6-3 by France&#8217;s Benoit Paire. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 36-year-old, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/67978420\" class=\"ssrcss-co0e25-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">who was also beaten<\/a> in the first round at the Australian Open, has now won only one of his last eight matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">British number one Boulter cruised past Italian sixth seed Jasmine Paolini in straight sets in Austria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Murray looked to be rediscovering his form when he took the first set in just 38 minutes, but Paire hit back to take a much closer set on a tie-break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paire then had the better of the decider, eventually taking it 6-3 despite Murray saving four match points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Three-time Grand Slam champion Murray has now lost all three of his matches in 2024 and slipped to 49th in the world rankings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Scot has previously hinted he would think about retiring if he did not enjoy playing this year, having struggled for form in the closing stages of the 2023 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, Boulter needed just 76 minutes to wrap up a 6-2 6-2 victory against Paolini, saving all five break points she faced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 27-year-old will play Russian world number 42 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the last 16 in Austria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">British number two Jodie Burrage qualified for the main draw with a win over Germany&#8217;s Anna-Lena Friedsam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Burrage lost the first set but recovered to secure a 5-7 6-3 6-2 win in two hours 27 minutes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/68134548\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Murray suffered a first-round exit at the Open Sud de France in Montpellier, but Katie Boulter won to reach the Linz Open second round. Murray was beaten 2-6, 7-6 (7-5), 6-3 by France&#8217;s Benoit Paire. The 36-year-old, who was also beaten in the first round at the Australian Open, has now won only one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12991,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12989\/revisions\/12991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}