Andy Murray through to second round

Briton Andy Murray has won comfortably over Spaniard Feliciano Lopez in Monte Carlo.

The 14th seed reached the second round of the tournament with a convincing 7-6 6-4 win.

He meets Italy's Filippo Volandri, who defeated Frenchman Nicolas Mahut 6-2 6-3, and faces a possible third-round encounter with world number three Novak Djokovic.

Murray, who won the Doha and Marseille tournaments earlier this year, played solid tennis throughout to outclass Lopez, whom he had already beaten in Washington two years ago on a hard surface.

Lopez saved a set point to force a tiebreak, which he lost 7-5 despite shrugging off two more set points. Murray cut loose in the second set, breaking his opponent in the first and seventh games.

Murray dropped serve in the eighth game but clinched victory on his second match point when Lopez netted a forehand in a half-empty centre court.

Meanwhile, on court two, Spaniard Carlos Moya, who won the French Open ten years ago, slumped to a 6-3 1-6 6-3 defeat at the hands of unheralded Sam Querrey of the United States.

The Spanish tenth seed was wiped out in one hour and 37 minutes by the 20-year-old Querrey, who won the Las Vegas tournament earlier this year.

His compatriot Juan Carlos Ferrero recovered from a shaky start to see off Frenchman Michael Llodra 6-7 6-1 6-1.

The former French Open champion, who won the tournament in 2002 and 2003, will battle it out for a third-round spot against either Finn Jarkko Nieminen or France's Marc Gicquel.

Big serving Robin Soderling of Sweden wasted three match points in the second set before overcoming Czech Radek Stepanek 6-4 6-7 6-3.

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