Murray puts Beijing behind him

Andy Murray cruised into the US Open second round declaring his Olympic disaster is water under the bridge.

The British number one had seen the form that had taken him to his first Masters title in Cincinnati in July desert him in Beijing. There, he was sent crashing out of the Olympic tennis men's singles by world number 77, Lu Yen-Hsun of Taiwan, in the first round.

However, in the US Open the sixth seed never looked like losing his grip on his opening match of the last Grand Slam of the year. A 6-3 6-4 6-0 defeat of Argentina's Sergio Roitman set up a second-round tie with Michael Llodra of France.

Murray said: "I'm feeling really confident just now regardless of what happened in Beijing.

"I feel I'm hitting the ball well. I feel mentally strong and physically I'm not tired so I want to do well here and today was a good start."

Murray did admit to first-round jitters as he returned to competitive action for the first time since that Olympic defeat.

He said: "I think before you get out on the court there is always maybe more nerves in the first round. Maybe by the second, third, fourth rounds, you get used to the court.

"No one wants to go out in the first round but actually, once you get onto the court and you play sort of four, five, six games, you get more comfortable and you relax a little bit."

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