On March 25, Beijing time, the first round of the ATP1000 Miami Masters began to compete, and the former world number one Murray played in the competition, and his opponent was Delbonnes, who was ranked 36th in the world. The two had one encounter in 2016 at Indian Wells, when Delbonnes narrowly beat Murray in three sets. Today's match Murray was even better, he dropped two straight sets to knock out his opponent.
The competition between the two sides in the first set was very fierce, and neither of them sent a break point to their opponents in their respective serves in the first 12 sets, and after their respective serves, the game entered the seventh. Murray scored four consecutive runs after 3-4 to win the first seven sets 7-4.
In the second set, Murray broke his opponent's serve as soon as he started, and then he saved the serve to make it 2-0. In the 5th set, Murray broke the opponent's serve again, and after a successful 6th set, Murray took a 5-1 lead. Delbones lost again in the 7th set, with Murray breaking and winning the second set 6-1.
In the end, in a match that took 1 hour and 33 minutes, Murray, who played with a wild card, defeated Delbones 7-6 (4)/6-1 to successfully enter the second round of the men's singles. Murray's opponent in the next round will be top seed Medvedev, and there will be a head-to-head showdown between the two Grand Slam champions.