Andy Murray cruised in to the Cincinnati Masters quarter finals with a convincing win against Russian Dmitry Tursunov.

The Scot broke the world number 34 four times in all wrapping up the match in quick time 6-3 6-3.

Andy Murray has now beaten Tursunov in all five of their matches, if he loses one more, Murray gets to keep the big Russian, though if Murray doesn’t beat Nadal next time they meet, Nadal owns Murray.

In hot and humid conditions, Murray controlled the match and Tursunov’s hard-hitting ground strokes were no match for the young Scot’s Craft. After the match Murray said,

It’s so hot, unbelievably humid, you get out of breath really quickly so I was happy to come through in two sets, I started to feel the ball better when I broke him early in the second. Against him it’s so important to stay solid because he can produce some huge shots, get on a roll, and I was lucky that I didn’t let him do that today. I changed the pace of the ball well and used the short slice and he didn’t like that very much.

Murray will now face the winner of Carlos Moya or Igor Andreev in the quarter finals tomorrow.

Andy Murray will be looking to continue his impressive hard court form against Russian Dmitry Tursunov later today when he again takes to court for his third round match in the Cincinnati masters. The match will be secodn on the grand stand court around 2pm local time (7pm UK time)

Murray dispatched American Sam Querrey yesterday in impressive style and will have his sights set firmly on the later stages of this masters after reaching the semi finals of last weeks Toronto masters. Dmitry Tursunov upset 10th seed Richard Gasquet who crumbled in the match after losing a first set tie break, the Russian won 7-6 6-0.

Murray will enter the match in confident mood having won all 4 of the pairs previous matches. They met twice in 2006 first on grass at Nottingham Murray easing to victory 6-4 6-3, then in LA, their only meeting on hard courts, Murray again winning comfortably 6-2 7-5.

They also met once last year, this time on the carpet of the St. Petersburg open, Tursunov this time did manage to take a set of the Scot, though eventually losing 3-6 7-6(2) 6-4.

Then to complete the set of wins against Dmitry Tursunov on all surfaces, Murray beat the Russian on the red clay of Hamburg earlier this year 6-4 6-1. An impressive win considering its Murray’s least favorite surface.

With Murray’s impressive recent form he is once again odds on favorite with bookmakers.