Andy Murray out of Us Open after straight sets loss

Andy Murray crashed out of the US Open yesterday after Stanislas Wawrinka beat him in straight sets.

The Scot was powerless as Stanislas Wawrinka produced a spectacular performance to win their quarter-final match.

Murray never quite got to grips with the blustery conditions in New York and had to fight on as Wawrinka recorded an emphatic 6-4 6-3 6-2 success to reach his first-ever grand slam semi-final.

Having edged a hard-fought first set, the Swiss star pulled away and did not face a single break-point on his way to a place in the last four as Murray cut an increasingly frustrated and abject figure. 

The defeat was Murray’s worst at a grand slam since being beaten by the same player in the third round at Flushing Meadows three years ago.

Murray has come back from two sets to love down seven times in his career, but this never looked like being an eighth.

Wawrinka had got better and better, allowing Murray very few free points on his serve and having an answer for everything off the ground.

The Scot was certainly not helping himself with some uncharacteristically poor errors, and it was more of the same in the third game of the third set as a double-fault handed Wawrinka another break.

Having made twice as many unforced errors as winners, the game was all but up for Murray when Wawrinka drilled another forehand winner to break again for 5-2.

That left the ninth seed serving for the match, and a smash brought up a first match point, which he took when Murray netted a forehand after two hours and 15 minutes.