Dan Evans loses to third seed Stan Wawrinka in five sets
Evans had match point in fourth set tie-break
But he lost 6-4 3-6 7-6 (8-6) 6-7 (8-10) 2-6
Evans was seeking to make it four Britons in fourth round
Andy Murray beat Paolo Lorenzi 7-6 (7-4) 5-7 6-2 6-3
Konta and Edmund already into last 16 at Flushing Meadows
*Murray 5-5 Lorenzi
Andy Murray snaps his heels together, stands up straight and finally gets his game ship-shape and orderly.
Paolo Lorenzi meanwhile crumbles like a croissant,
We are back on serve.
Paul Newman
Tennis correspondent for the Independent on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra
I think every point Lorenzi won came from Murray errors in that game. The balls were only just going out but he's just not timing it right.
Murray has to get on his game quickly and find the balance between keeping the ball in play and hitting winners. He maybe needs to build the rally a little bit more before going for the big shot.
Image source, Getty ImagesMurray 4-5 *Lorenzi
Andy Murray has coughed up 17 unforced errors so far in this set. That is more than he clocks up in most early-round matches in their entirety.
And now they are starting to eat into the scoreboard.
The Scot is lucky not to be facing two break points as he drifts short at 15-30 down.
But Lorenzi forces one on the next point. And takes it!
Cat meet pigeons.
If Lorenzi holds serve next, the first set is his.
*Murray 4-4 Lorenzi
Anything you can do...
Paolo Lorenzi breezes though a service game to love.
We keep waiting for his game to hit the rims. So far though there is no sign of the air coming out of his tyres.
Image source, ReutersDel Potro 7-6 6-2 Ferrer
Over on Court Louis Armstrong, Juan Martin del Potro's cannon of a forehand is shelling the David Ferrer baseline.
The Argentine is two sets to the good and locked on for the fourth round.
Murray 4-3 *Lorenzi
Andy Murray knocks off the first hold to love.
I think Paolo Lorenzi was taking that game as a well-earned breather after working his lungs like bellows to save the break in the last.
*Murray 3-3 Lorenzi
Paolo Lorenzi keeps dodging the bullets and comes on the offensive himself with a sublime mid-court half-volley pick-up winner to seal the game.
He is playing beautifully. Murray less so.
Image source, APMurray 3-2 *Lorenzi
Fans of nineties console games will remember the point in Mortal Kombat when your opponent was wobbling dazed and you would be implored to "Finish Him!" with some sort of involuntary organ extraction of the like.
This game has been a bit like that.
Andy Murray had Paolo Lorenzi at his mercy for what felt like 15 shots in the second rally before finally nailing his man and moving 0-30 up.
He allows Lorenzi to wriggle back to 30-30. Now 30-40 and the first break point of the match.
Surely this time? No, Lorenzi takes us to deuce with a wilting little drop shot.
FINISH HIM!
Image source, ReutersMurray 3-2 Lorenzi*
Better from Andy Murray as he clips the cutest of drop-shots across court and well out of reach.
Paolo Lorenzi did not even bother getting out of the starting blocks for that one.
Moving the 34-year-old up and down court - as well as side to side - might be the way for Murray to dissolve Lorenzi's resolve quickest.
Image source, Getty Images*Murray 2-2 Lorenzi
Image source, APPaolo Lorenzi is not playing the part of patsy.
The Italian stabs a delicious wire-skimming backhand down the line for a clean winner to keep pace on the scoreboard.
Lucky that this match is not being staged in a city with a large ex-pat Italian population or this crowd could turn against Murray quickly.
Oh.
Murray 2-1 Lorenzi*
The atmosphere is as flat as a week-old soda in Arthur Ashe and there is a danger of Andy Murray living down to the occasion.
He hands over the opening point with a double fault and, alert the authorities, his first serve has gone missing in action.
It lands just twice as the Scot struggles over the line to 30.
He has a few sharp words for himself as he heads back to his stool. Not as pointy as some of the invective that Ivan Lendl will have if he continues like this.
Image source, Reuters*Murray 1-1 Lorenzi
Paolo Lorenzi comes to the party in some style.
He bops down an ace to close out his opening service game to love.
Andy Murray perhaps just using that one as a sighter. Certainly he was not chomping at the bit to get into rallies there.
Murray 1-0 Lorenzi*
Image source, Getty ImagesAndy Murray chisels and chips his way through the opening service game, taking it to the loss of just one point.
Solid execution from one of tennis's blue-chip players.
Paolo Lorenzi by the way is sporting tartan shorts and sleeves.
Mind games from the underdog.
*Murray 0-0 Lorenzi
Image source, EPAAndy Murray to tee us off with the fresh fuzz.
Paolo Lorenzi, who prevailed in five against Giles Simon last time out, to receive and try and shake some live into his 34-year-old legs.
Andy Murray makes his way to the court, casually fist-bumping a couple of young fans on his way.
Paolo Lorenzi is already there. The 34-year-old looks like a young Steve Buscemi for me.
"Kinda funny looking" as they said in Fargo.
Have a compare and contrast.
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BBC Radio 5 live sports extra
Kyle Edmund has been talking to BBC Sport tennis correspondent Russell Fuller ahead of his fourth-round match against world number one Novak Djokovic.
"Playing Djokovic will be a great experience and I am really looking forward to it," said the British number four.
"When I played him in Miami this season it was tough because he retrieves a lot of balls, he's quick around the court, is tough to break down and he makes you play an extra ball.
"He beat me in straight sets - 6-3 6-3 - but I had some success. I will look to play aggressively as that's what I always do."
Image source, Getty ImagesAndy Murray has been out on the practice courts already today, sporting a Thriller in Manilla t-shirt commemorating that epic fight between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier.
He has some words for Eurosport on the British showing in New York.
"It has been great. Dan Evans and Kyle Edmund had a really good couple of wins - against Zverev and Isner - in the last couple of days," he said.
"Jo Konta is playing really well and is in the fourth round where she is expected to be now. I hope that everyone can keep it up."
Image source, Getty ImagesTheir careers have not exactly taken divergent directions since then, but Murray's rise has been steeper, faster and into the very stratosphere.
Lorenzi became the oldest ever first-time champion on the ATP with victory at the Kitzbuhel event a fortnight ago. That took him into the top 40 for the first time in his career.
Murray is the second-best player in the world according to the rankings, the best in the world on form. Five years younger than Lorenzi, he has 39 of those ATP titles along with three Grand Slam crowns.
Lorenzi has played only 25 Grand Slam main draw matches and won only four.
Never mind an uphill task, this is like tackling an overhang with a hangover for the Italian.
Image source, Getty ImagesIt was in the second round of qualifying for the US Open before the ATP start to tot up the wins and losses for its records.
Murray, a callow 19-year-old, pummeled Lorenzi 6-3 6-2.
“When we finished the match, I told him he was playing really good. Then you could not know how great he would be, but I had an idea,” the Italian recalled this week., external
"He beat me easy so it’s better if I don’t remember that day.”
Image source, Getty ImagesThe official stats show that Andy Murray has met Paolo Lorenzi only once before, when the Scot - big of hair, long of bead - recovered from a set down to win 2-6 6-0 6-2 in Adelaide back in 2006.
However, below the radar, their paths crossed in the Big Apple a year before.