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Andy Murray was content to have engineered a happy ending to another slightly tortuous journey in the Louis Armstrong Stadium.
The eighth seed looked to be strolling through to the fourth round of the US Open but contrived to lose the third set to Russian Andrey Kuznetsov before recovering to win 6-1 7-5 4-6 6-2.
There was not the same drama as there had been in round one, when he cramped against Robin Haase and might have lost, but it was still a concern that Murray did not press home his advantage against the world number 96.
“I expected him to play well,” said the Scot, who next meets a much more familiar opponent in Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
