The third round of matches are now complete and the line up for the round of 16 is known. Of the 4 favorites to win Wimbledon, In the top half Roger Federer and in the bottom half Andy Murray have the toughest matches, whilst Andy Roddick and Rafael Nadal both have unseeded opponents.

Federer takes on the resurgent Jurgen Meltzer, in recent months, the talented Jurgen Melzer has produced some of his best tennis and has risen to a career high of 16 in the world. He reached a career best semi final at Roland Garros last month only losing to Rafael Nadal and along the way came back from two sets down to eliminate Novak Djokovic. If Federer  is not on the top of his game, then this one could well be another stonker!

Andy Roddick faces unseeded Yen-Hsun Lu and the winner of that match will play the winner of probably the match ofthe day between two of the best outside bets for the title. 3rd seed Novak Djokovic will take on former Wimbledon winner and former world number 1 Lleyton Hewitt.

In the bottom half of the draw Andy Murray will take on the winner of Queens this year and 18th seed Sam Querrey, see a Murray Querrey preview here. The winner of that match will definitely play a Frenchman as 32nd seed Julien Benneteau takes on 10th seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.

Meanwhile Rafael Nadal will face another Frenchman, Paul-Henri Mathieu and will play the winner of what should be another great match between 6th seed Robin Soderling and 9th seed David Ferrer. Soderling as so far negotiated his way through the first 3 rounds with consummate ease and is looking supremely good – Watch out the rest of the draw for this Swedish dark-horse!

Andy Murray cruised to victory over big serving American Sam Querrey in his opening match of the Cincinnati Masters.

Murray was playing his first match in Cincinnati after receiving a first round bye and the Scot showed some signs of “ring rust” as he got of to a slow start dropping a break early only to recover and win comfortably 7-6 6-1.

Sam Querrey had most the support behind and he delighted the American crowd early on by breaking Murray on the Brit’s opening service game to take a 3-0 lead. Murray was definitely struggling with a sluggish start but he began to find his serve with 2 aces securing his next service game from a tricky 30 all position.

6 foot 6 inches Querrey is one of the biggest servers on tour and had served 39 service winners which included 20 aces against Paul-Henri Mathieu in the first round. Murray though is no slouch on return and waited foe his chance on the home favorites serve. That chance came in the 7th game as Murray raced to to a 0-40 on Querrey’s serve. He needed two chances to get the break back, but the score was soon level at 4-4 and the match headed on course for a tie break.

Andy started the breaker well obtaining an immediate mini break and holding his two serves to take a 3-0 lead. He added another mini break to take a 4-1 advantage, before dropping one back to Querrey and the score was 5-2. Querrey though could not produce the serves he managed yesterday and lost another point on serve and Murray carved three set points. He only needed one.

The second set was cruise control for Murray and he raced to a 4-0 lead with new comfortable service breaks. He did drop his serve to Querrey, but the Scot broke again to win the set 6-1.

Although Murray was broken twice in this short match, he managed to serve 11 aces compared with 7 form Querrey, which is decent going considering Querrey service stats in his first round match on Monday.

I was feeling pretty uncomfortable on the court to start with. It is so fast here compared to last week and I was struggling to control the ball early on and getting a bit frustrated. But when I calmed down and played a few more games I started to play better and won comfortably in the end.

Murray will now face Richard Gasquet or Dmitry Tursunov in the third round tomorrow. Gasquet and Tursunov will play later on today, around 5pm local time (10pm UK time).

Andy Murray will begin his Cincinnati Masters challenge in his second round match with big serving American Sam Querrey.

Querrey is currently ranked 46 in the world, though is sitting at 36 in the ATP race, so is on the way up. The 20-year old from San Francisco is amongst a number of young Americans who have yet to live up to the expectations of the American fans, who are desperately seeking another potential grand slam winner.

The 6’6” American plays well on home soil, he made the semi finals in Indianapolis 2 weeks ago losing to eventual winner Giles Simon and his only title came in Las Vegas in March of this year. Querrey has also posted wins against Richard Gasquet and Nicolas Kiefer so far this year.

Murray and Querrey have met once before way back in 2006 in Newport, Rhode Island where a 19 year old Murray beat an 18 year old Querrey 7-5 6-2.

Andy Murray will be looking to go one step further than the semi finals of this masters event. The Scot has now reached four master semi finals, in 2007 he reached back to back semi finals in Miami and Indian Wells losing to Novak Djokovic on both occasions and he has reached the semis at the Toronto masters event, the Rogers cup twice, he lost to Ricahrd Gasquet in 2006 and last week to Rafael Nadal.

The bookmakers have Murray as odds on favorite to win. As usual Betfair has the best overall odds and are still offering their free £25 to new sign ups. Though Betfair are favouring Andy Murray to win, whilst Ladbrokes are offering the highest odds for a Andy Murray win,