'Clown' Kyrgios fails to get the better of disciplined Murray

John McEnroe criticises the erratic Australian as Andy Murray keeps his cool in the biggest match of the US Open first round

Nick Kyrgios
(Image credit: Clive Brunskill)

Andy Murray overcame tennis bogeyman Nick Kyrgios in the biggest match of the US Open first round, disposing of the Australian in four sets, eventually winning 7-5, 6-3, 4-6, 6-1 in front of a sell-out crowd at Flushing Meadow.

The match lived up to the hype, says Kevin Mitchell of The Guardian. It was billed as a public examination of Kyrgios's "tender psyche", and there had not been a "single dull second" in the match before the Australian inexplicably disintegrated in the fourth set, having just won the third.

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