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Madrid - Andy Murray made the Madrid Open third round with a 6-4, 3-6, 6-0 win over Philipp Kohlschreiber in a match which ended at 3 o'clock on Thursday morning.
The second seeded Murray had already defeated his German opponent in three sets in the rain-delayed Munich Open final on Monday to register his first clay-court title.
His latest meeting with Kohlschreiber only got underway at just after 1 o'clock after a succession of marathon matches at the joint ATP-WTA tournament had thrown the schedule into chaos.
The Murray-Kohlschreiber clash was not the latest finish to an ATP World Tour tie.
That honour belongs to Benjamin Becker and Jiri Novak who completed a match at the 2006 Japan Open at 03:25.
Murray will have to recover quickly as he is due to face Spain's Marcel Granollers later on Thursday for a place in the quarter-finals.
However, Granollers may not be feeling particularly fresh as he needed three hours and 20 minutes to defeat French 13th seed Gael Monfils, 7-6 (8/6), 6-7 (7/9), 6-4.
Results from the fifth day of the ATP and WTA Madrid Open on Wednesday (x denotes seeded player):
Men
2nd rd
Nick Kyrgios (AUS) bt Roger Federer (SUI x1) 6-7 (2/7), 7-6 (7/5), 7-6 (14/12)
John Isner (USA x16) bt Thomaz Bellucci (BRA) 7-6 (7/5), 6-7 (11/13), 6-1
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA x12) bt Jack Sock (USA) 6-3, 1-6, 7-6 (7/4)
Tomas Berdych (CZE x6) bt Richard Gasquet (FRA) 7-6 (7/3), 7-5
Rafael Nadal (ESP x3) bt Steve Johnson (USA) 6-4, 6-3
Simone Bolelli (ITA) bt Luca Vanni (ITA) 4-6, 6-3, 6-2
Grigor Dimitrov (BUL x10) bt Fabio Fognini (ITA) 3-6, 6-2, 7-5
David Ferrer (ESP x7) bt Albert Ramos (ESP) 6-4, 6-0
Fernando Verdasco (ESP) bt Marin Cilic (CRO x9) 6-7 (5/7), 7-6 (7/5), 6-3
Roberto Bautista (ESP x14) bt Sam Querrey (USA) 7-5, 6-4
Kei Nishikori (JPN x4) bt David Goffin (BEL) 6-2, 4-6, 6-4
Leonardo Mayer (ARG) bt Feliciano Lopez (ESP x11) 7-6 (7/3), 7-6 (8/6)
Marcel Granollers (ESP) bt Gael Monfils (FRA x13) 7-6 (8/6), 6-7 (7/9), 6-4
Andy Murray (GBR x2) bt Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER) 6-4, 3-6, 6-0
Women
3rd rd
Serena Williams (USA x1) bt Victoria Azarenka (BLR) 7-6 (7/5), 3-6, 7-6 (7/1)
Carla Surez Navarro (ESP x10) bt Ana Ivanovic (SRB x7) 7-5, 1-6, 6-4
Petra Kvitova (CZE x4) bt Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) 6-1, 6-4
Irina Begu (ROM) bt Barbora Zhlavov Strcov (CZE) 6-4, 6-4
Caroline Wozniacki (DEN x5) bt Agnieszka Radwanska (POL x9) 6-3, 6-2
Maria Sharapova (RUS x3) bt Caroline Garcia (FRA) 6-2, 4-6, 7-5
Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS) bt Samantha Stosur (AUS) 5-7, 6-2, 7-6 (7/5)
Lucie Safarova (CZE x13) bt Roberta Vinci (ITA) 6-4, 6-7 (6/8), 6-0
