Murray makes third round

British third seed Andy Murray New York - AFP British third seed Andy Murray reached the US Open third round on Wednesday with a 6-2, 6-1, 6-3 win over Ivan Dodig of Croatia. Murray will face either 30th seed Feliciano Lopez or Pablo Andujar, both Spanish, for a place in the last 16. World No. 1 Victoria Azarenka, this year’s Australian Open champion, reached the third round while defending champion Samantha Stosur and third seed Maria Sharapova, the reigning French Open champion, advanced with ease as well. Spanish fourth seed David Ferrer, Argentine seventh seed Juan Martin Del Potro and US ninth seed John Isner won their openers on the Flushing Meadows hard courts. The US Open has seen nine men’s comeback triumphs from two sets down in the first round, matching the record from 1989, including Serbian ninth seed Janko Tipsarevic’s 4-6, 3-6, 6-2, 6-3, 6-2 victory over Frenchman Guillaume Rufin. And Australian Lleyton Hewitt, the 2001 US Open champion, reached the second round by dispatching Germany’s Tobias Kamke 4-6, 6-2, 6-1, 6-4. Australian seventh seed Stosur took an hour to beat Romanian qualifier Edina Gallovits-Hall 6-3, 6-0.