Piers Newbery
BBC Sport at Roland Garros

"It's been a pretty classic Murray performance so far, slowly but surely breaking down one of the game's big hitters. He's also done a good job of slowing down the hurry-up style of Kyrgios on serve, taking a towel each time just to make the Aussie have to pause for an extra second or two.

"Kyrgios has had quite a few injuries in his short career and with the grass-court season approaching, it will be interesting to see how invested he is in turning this match around."

Nick Kyrgios is patched up and back on court.

Murray to serve for the second set. And it would be difficult to envisage Kyrgios tunnelling his way back from two sets adrift.

Some shots just sound different off the racquet don't they?

Murray deftly slides away a forehand angle and it sounds like he had the silencer slipped over the top of his bat.

The break chance at 30-40 and Kyrgios surrenders rather meekly, swatting into the net.

And now Kyrgios is getting a bit of treatment on his wrist at the changeover. And his elbow...

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Piers Newbery
BBC Sport at Roland Garros

"Apart from the posh seats down the front, where jewellery is rattled, Lenglen is pretty much full now and lapping up the antics of Kyrgios in particular.

"Murray might appear to be a bit dour in comparison, decked out in black as opposed to luminous pink/orange and restricting his chatter to the standard self-admonishment, but the tennis is pretty special. The lob-backhand combination to break serve was the match of anything his opponent has come up with today."

The longest game of the match so far as the clock ticks on. But it is not heading much further.

Nick Kyrgios blocks a return long and then is left flailing at thin air by a ripped first serve up the tee. Murray was due one of those. He has been missing with a lot of his first darts off the baseline oche.

Andy Murray faces an awkward 15-30 and he is being given the runaround by some vicious Nick Kyrgios forehands.

Once those blockbuster shots get into a rally, they tend to overrun it like a virus. Murray succumbs and faces two break points.

A huge let-off. Kyrgios cuffs the ball long as he lines up an apparently simple winner. Murray was all but back on his chair. That is the lucky dip of Krygios's game though - you are going to get some booby prizes amid the nuggets.

Deuce. Another leaping, eye-watering forehand, another break point. Murray to the net to save. On we go.

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Nick Kyrgios breaks out the hot-dog again after Andy Murray chases and scampers to keep in the point, but this time it is over-cooked.

Murray with a break point at 30-40. Saved by an absolute whopper of a forehand out wide.

Another chance for the Scot from deuce and it is his chance to uncork some vintage groundstrokes. A crunching backhand down the line. There is a little doubt as to whether it has caught the line, but Kyrgios sportingly acknowledges that it is in after inspecting the whitewash, saving the umpire a job.

Andy Murray finds the angle to unlock the Nick Kyrgios defences, the Australian off balance on the final point after being forced to chase out wide.

A solid hold.

Mike Dickson
Daily Mail tennis correspondent on BBC Sport website

"Talking to a few players and coaches, they feel the condition of the courts is making the ball bounce considerably lower than previous tournaments. That plays into the hands of Novak Djokovic and it's not a good thing for Rafa Nadal."

That Nick Kyrgios showreel is going to be feature length pretty soon.

One delicious pick-up half-volley off his shoelaces takes all the sting out of a Murray return and plops over for a lovely winner.

A hold to love.

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Andy Murray falls off a backhand as the depth of a Nick Kyrgios return catches him by surprise. That takes us to deuce.

Kyrgios's baseline hitting is industrial grade stuff, but Murray's is the more accurate and tends to deny the Australian a solid base to get away his most powerful strokes.

That is a misjudgement from Murray though. A drop-shot as overcooked as the unwanted barbeque burger is run down by Kyrgios and slapped away.

A bit of cat and mouse on the final point and Murray delays and delays on a mid-court ball, trying to smoke out which way Kyrgios is going to gamble. It does the trick as the Scot plonks the ball into the open court.

Piers Newbery
BBC Sport at Roland Garros

"'I hate this place,' says Kyrgios towards his box after a call goes against him.

"It looked out from directly in line, but it was tight. Cue two brilliant winners and a killer drop shot. More chunter with the umpire, a bit of ball kid interaction. Murray could be moonwalking down the other end and nobody would notice."

Laser-like.

Nick Kyrgios absolutely flattens a forehand and then a backhand to make a sticky 0-30 a more comfortable 30-30.

Then a tickle of a drop-shot shows that he can do feather duster as well as cudgel.

Even Murray is impressed. "Good shot," he says almost instinctively as one of those groundstrokes streaks past him.

Annabel Croft
Former British number one on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra

"One of most entertaining sets of tennis I've seen at Rolland Garros this week. There was some fantastic court play, but Murray is just too solid. Kyrgios is going to have to take any half chances and there were one or two there."

Some first sets stats for you and Nick Kyrgios is serving very decently indeed.

He is landing with 74% of first serves. Andy Murray can only muster 54%.

Which he does in a twinkle. A hold to love, with the serve popping and kicking like a break-dance troupe.

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Nick Kyrgios is making a decent bid to get into your "most entertaining player" top 10

Amid the profanities, swaggering and costume tweaks, there are some absolute gems. One perfect read of Murray's intentions means he is able to play the most casual winning reply to the Scot's angled drop-shot.

Murray will have to serve out for the set.

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