Rio Olympics 2016: Andy Murray stages superb comeback against Fabio Fognini to keep his Olympic dream alive
ANDY MURRAY is in the quarter finals but his match against Fabio Fognini was far from a breeze.
Murray was on the ropes, losing eight games in a row to fall 3-0 behind in the deciding set in windy conditions.
Fognini was blown away in the first set but played some brilliant tennis afterThe final set was a marathon but Murray eventually came out on top
But the defending champion found a way to win yet again, blowing Fognini away with a six-game streak of his own.
Murray was cruising into the last eight at a set and a break up.
Murray looked assured in the early stages
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But Fognini, having been terrible in the opening set, had one of his typical switch-flicks as Murray began to mistime the ball badly in the wind..
The Scot stopped the rot by holding serve, saved a game point which would have given Fognini a 4-1 lead and then roared like a hurricane into a quarter final against the USA’s Steve Johnson.
Meanwhile, there was disappointment for Johanna Konta as she was smashed 1-6 2-6 by Angelique Kerber.
Second-seed Kerber, from Germany, completed the rout in just over an hour.
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