Defending champion Andy Murray sealed his place in the quarter-finals of the Madrid Masters on Thursday with a 6-4, 6-2 win over 16th seed Gilles Simon.
Murray will face Thomas Berdych or David Ferrer in the last eight on Friday.”After the first six or seven games I really started to hit the ball well,” said Murray.
“I served well throughout the match. It was a good performance.”
Murray pounced on a series of Simon errors to seal the only break of the first set in the final game..
