CINCINNATI, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- American Mardy Fish sent Scotsman Andy Murray packing Friday in the quarterfinals of the $3 million Western & Southern Financial Group Masters.
Fish, a wild card player in this U.S. Open Series event on the hard courts of the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Cincinnati, bounced back from a 6-7 (7-9) first-set loss to the fourth-seeded Murray to take the second set 6-1 and then the deciding set 7-6 (7-5). Murray sought medical attention on his leg during the middle set.
Fish served up 13 aces and held serve throughout the nearly 3-hour match. The 28-year-old American is now 3-0 against Murray this year.
The other quarterfinal matches pit Andy Roddick against Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer against Nikolay Davydenko and Rafael Nadal against Marcos Baghdatis. UPI
