Miami cruise for Murray

Murray: Emphatic win

I hadn't started particularly well my first couple of matches but once I started well today I started to hit the ball much better.

Andy Murray
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Andy Murray powered his way into the quarter-final of the Sony Ericsson Open with a crushing 6-1 6-0 win over Viktor Troicki on Tuesday.

The world number four was in ominous form during the fourth-round match - blowing the unseeded Serbian away in just 58 minutes.

Murray will now face number eight seed Fernando Verdasco in the last eight as he looks to avenge his heartbreaking five-set defeat to the Spaniard in the quarter-final of the Australian Open at the start of the year.

Control

Murray rattled off the first five games to put himself firmly in control of the match and, despite seeing his Belgrade-born opponent hold in the sixth, the British number one went on to serve out for the set at the first time of asking.

There was an increasingly resigned look about Troicki as the tie continued and he showed no sign of the form that took him past world number 14 David Nalbandian in the first round in Miami.

A smash into the bottom of the net in the penultimate game summed up the match for the 23-year-old and Murray sealed the victory to love thanks to yet another netted return from his ailing opponent.

The statistics tell the story of a sorry day for Troicki, with just 33 per cent of his first serves going in and a winning ratio of just 28 per cent on his second serve, and Murray was clearly delighted to have progressed.

"I played well today I concentrated hard and my tactics were pretty much spot on. It's nice to get off the court quickly it was tough conditions today," Murray told Sky Sports 2.

"He didn't hit his first serve particularly well and that's his best weapon. I got off to a great start breaking him and then took confidence from that.

Roddick advances

"I hadn't started particularly well my first couple of matches but once I started well today I started to hit the ball much better. I used my short slice really, really well and he obviously struggled because I was in every one of his service games."

There was better news for Troicki's Serbian compatriot Novak Djokovic, though, as he advanced a 6-3 6-2 winner against Czech Tomas Berdych.

The world number three, who won the Miami title in 2007, will face French 10th seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga next in the quarter-finals.

Tsonga overcame a bout of illness before the match to eliminate his seventh-seeded compatriot Gilles Simon 6-7 (4-7) 6-3 6-2 and become the first Frenchman in a decade to reach the quarter-finals at Key Biscayne.

American number one Andy Roddick continued his fine form with an impressive 7-6 (7-2) 6-4 victory over ninth seed Gael Monfils in the fourth round.

A-Rod fired down four aces and 27 winners against the Frenchman and now awaits Roger Federer in the last eight after the world number two beat Taylor Dent in straight sets.

And Verdasco set up an appetising quarter-final showdown with Murray after brushing aside number 18 seed Radek Stepanek 6-2 6-2 on the Grandstand court.