Murray digs in to beat Bjorkman

Andy Murray came from a set down to overcome Tour veteran Jonas Bjorkman in five sets and move into the third round of the US Open.

The British number one, seeded 19th at Flushing Meadows, took three hours, 37 minutes to beat the 35-year-old Swede 5-7, 6-3, 6-1, 4-6, 6-1 on the Grandstand court.

Having lost the first set on his first dropped service game, Murray hit back with some great tennis in the next two sets to take the match by the scruff of the neck.

He had lost the first two games of the second set before switching gears and going on a run that saw him win six of the next seven games.

Murray lost a point at deuce in the fifth game of the set before shouting an obscenity for which he received a warning from umpire Pascal Maria of France.

But it did not distract Murray from winning the set with some great shot-making that continued into the third set.

But the Scot seemed to switch off in the fourth set.

The 19th seed managed to break Bjorkman against the run of play in the opening game of the fifth set and then again in the fifth game to take a 4-1 lead, breaking the Swede a final time to take the match.

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