Andy Murray, his serve clicking like a clock, hit a peak of perfection to hand the Australian teenager Thanasi Kokkinakis a mercifully quick three-set hiding in the opening match of the Davis Cup semi-final here on Friday afternoon.
After a fairly competitive first set, it turned into a rout almost on the scale of the triple-bagle thrashing the Scot gave the Luxembourg part-timer Laurent Bram when he returned to Davis Cup action in Glasgow four years ago.
Kokkinakis, No72 in the world, is some way removed from Bram in ability, achievement and ambition, but Murray made him look like a novice, winning 6- 3, 6-0, 6-3 to give Great Britain an ideal start ahead of Dan Evans’s match against Bernard Tomic.
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