{"id":56343,"date":"2023-04-27T14:06:21","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T18:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=56343"},"modified":"2023-04-27T14:06:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T18:06:21","slug":"andrea-vavassori-stuns-andy-murray-in-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2023\/04\/27\/andrea-vavassori-stuns-andy-murray-in-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrea Vavassori Stuns Andy Murray in Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrea Vavaossri of Italy registered the biggest win of his career by stunning Andy Murray of Great Britain 6-2 7-6 in the first round of the Madrid Open on Thursday. It was the first ever win in a Masters 1000 tournaments for the Italian, ranked 164th in the world, as he left the two-time champion surprised.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, it was yet another disappointment for the 35-year-old Brit, who is definitely in the twilight of his career.<\/p>\n<h2>How Andrea Vavassori beat Andy Murray in Madrid<\/h2>\n<h4>Andrea Vavassori dominated with his big serve in the first set:<\/h4>\n<p>Vavassori used his height (1.93 meters) to hit his first serve really well. Murray struggled to deal with the Italian&#8217;s first delivery and the latter had won 21 out of 23 points on his first serve at one stage.<\/p>\n<p>To make matters worse for him, Murray served really poorly in the first set and was broken twice to hand the Italian an early advantage.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"0jye6sHwTuZR4dEomJwGIQ\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1485803304\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'0jye6sHwTuZR4dEomJwGIQ',sig:'ymATeHWtB5feROo0mgav3jmp0Lkpsrb9sBRT74HpHZM=',w:'594px',h:'397px',items:'1485803304',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Murray bounced back well, but hit a few poor volleys:<\/h4>\n<p>Vavassori once again broke Murray in the second set to race to a 4-2 lead, but then the Brit staged a brief comeback by serving with a lot of firepower. He also directed a lot of traffic towards Vavassori&#8217;s backhand, which often proved to be the latter&#8217;s weakness.<\/p>\n<p>Vavassori responded with backhand slices, but that allowed Murray to gain an upper hand in a lot of rallies. The Brit broke back and the second set went into a tie-break.<\/p>\n<p>Vavassori started going around his backhand more often in the tie-break and hit a few stunning inside-in and inside-out forehand from seemingly awkward positions. He led 6-3, but Murray then managed to save three match points to level the score.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Brit made a few glaring mistakes by hitting a few volleys into the net to hand the Italian a victory. Vavassori hit 14 winners off his forehand alone in the match, as Murray committed 23 unforced errors in it.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrea Vavaossri of Italy registered the biggest win of his career by stunning Andy Murray of Great Britain 6-2 7-6 in the first round of the Madrid Open on Thursday. It was the first ever win in a Masters 1000 tournaments for the Italian, ranked 164th in the world, as he left the two-time champion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4311,"featured_media":56347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9771,16,15709],"class_list":["post-56343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp","tag-andrea-vavassori","tag-andy-murray","tag-atp-madrid-open"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}