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      <title>Best of British: Murray, Raducanu advance at Indian Wells
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Indian Wells. Former world number one Andy Murray and US Open champion Emma Raducanu got the ball rolling for Britain at Indian Wells on Friday with straight-sets Stadium Court victories.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Murray, a three-time Grand Slam champion now ranked 88th in the world and playing on a wildcard invitation, rallied after a dismal first set to beat Japanese qualifier Taro Daniel 1-6, 6-2, 6-4 in the first round of the prestigious WTA and ATP Masters event.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Raducanu, seeded 11th, reached the women's third round with a 6-1, 3-6, 6-1 victory over France's Caroline Garcia.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Murray notched his second win in three matches this year against Daniel -- and also claimed the 700th ATP match win of his career.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;"Reaching that number is a really, really good achievement," said Murray, who is one of just four active players to hit the milestone after Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;"It has not been easy getting there," he added, noting that he had reached 600 match wins in 2016 before his victory rate was slowed in large part by injury.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;"Five and a half years to get the last hundred, so it has taken a while," he said.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In the early going it didn't look like a landmark day for Murray, who dropped the first set in just 28 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Unable to convert two early break points, Murray would eventually be broken at love four times before bearing down in the third set to seal the win.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;"Taro played really, really well in the first set," Murray said. "Certainly early in the second set I started to play better. I got up a break early and that relaxed me a bit."&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Murray powered to a 5-0 lead in the second set on the way to forcing the decider, then was broken in the opening game.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;He leveled the set at 3-3, then saved a break point in a tense ninth game before breaking Daniel on his third match point.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;It was another smidgen of revenge against the 106th-ranked Japanese player, who stunned Murray in the second round of the Australian Open before Murray turned the tables in the first round at Doha.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Raducanu got off to a strong start in a match she didn't expect to be playing when a hip injury forced her out of a match in Guadalajara two weeks ago.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;"It's a bit of a bonus for me," said Raducanu, who was hindered by a blisters at the Australian Open and was playing just her fifth match of 2022.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;She got off to a smooth start, opening a 3-0 lead on the way to pocketing the first set in 26 minutes and breaking Garcia in the opening game of the second.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But former world number four Garcia clawed back, winning five straight games to take the set before Raducanu regrouped to cruise through the third.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;"She plays extremely powerful and fast," Raducanu said. "As soon as I let up, she climbed on top of it straightaway. I knew I had to make some adjustments in the third set.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;"I'm really happy I was able to work that out in the match."&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Swiatek, Halep advance&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In other women's action, third-seeded Iga Swiatek of Poland and former world number one Simona Halep battled to three-set victories to reach the third round.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Swiatek, the world number four who is the highest seed in the top half of the draw after the late withdrawals of world number one Ashleigh Barty and No. 2 Barbora Krejcikova, dropped the opening set to Ukraine's Anhelina Kalinina but lost just one game over the next two sets to triumph 5-7, 6-0, 6-1.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;"I think at the beginning, I was too focused on the conditions. I was a little bit distracted by what was going on with the wind," said Swiatek, who is coming off a title in Doha last month. "I'm pretty glad that I came back and I solved my problems and I could find my rhythm."&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Swiatek, who led the first set 3-1 and 4-2 before Kalinina reeled off six games to pocket the set, said she didn't have to change much.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;"I just knew I was taking a little bit too much risk in the first set because it was super-windy," she said.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Halep, who lifted the Indian Wells trophy in 2015, defeated Ekaterina Alexandrova 6-2, 4-6, 6-2.&lt;/p&gt;
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      <content:encoded xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p><strong>Indian Wells. Former world number one Andy Murray and US Open champion Emma Raducanu got the ball rolling for Britain at Indian Wells on Friday with straight-sets Stadium Court victories.</strong></p>

<p>Murray, a three-time Grand Slam champion now ranked 88th in the world and playing on a wildcard invitation, rallied after a dismal first set to beat Japanese qualifier Taro Daniel 1-6, 6-2, 6-4 in the first round of the prestigious WTA and ATP Masters event.</p>

<p>Raducanu, seeded 11th, reached the women's third round with a 6-1, 3-6, 6-1 victory over France's Caroline Garcia.</p>

<p>Murray notched his second win in three matches this year against Daniel -- and also claimed the 700th ATP match win of his career.</p>

<p>"Reaching that number is a really, really good achievement," said Murray, who is one of just four active players to hit the milestone after Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic.</p>

<p>"It has not been easy getting there," he added, noting that he had reached 600 match wins in 2016 before his victory rate was slowed in large part by injury.</p>

<p>"Five and a half years to get the last hundred, so it has taken a while," he said.</p>

<p>In the early going it didn't look like a landmark day for Murray, who dropped the first set in just 28 minutes.</p>

<p>Unable to convert two early break points, Murray would eventually be broken at love four times before bearing down in the third set to seal the win.</p>

<p>"Taro played really, really well in the first set," Murray said. "Certainly early in the second set I started to play better. I got up a break early and that relaxed me a bit."</p>

<p>Murray powered to a 5-0 lead in the second set on the way to forcing the decider, then was broken in the opening game.</p>

<p>He leveled the set at 3-3, then saved a break point in a tense ninth game before breaking Daniel on his third match point.</p>

<p>It was another smidgen of revenge against the 106th-ranked Japanese player, who stunned Murray in the second round of the Australian Open before Murray turned the tables in the first round at Doha.</p>

<p>Raducanu got off to a strong start in a match she didn't expect to be playing when a hip injury forced her out of a match in Guadalajara two weeks ago.</p>

<p>"It's a bit of a bonus for me," said Raducanu, who was hindered by a blisters at the Australian Open and was playing just her fifth match of 2022.</p>

<p>She got off to a smooth start, opening a 3-0 lead on the way to pocketing the first set in 26 minutes and breaking Garcia in the opening game of the second.</p>

<p>But former world number four Garcia clawed back, winning five straight games to take the set before Raducanu regrouped to cruise through the third.</p>

<p>"She plays extremely powerful and fast," Raducanu said. "As soon as I let up, she climbed on top of it straightaway. I knew I had to make some adjustments in the third set.</p>

<p>"I'm really happy I was able to work that out in the match."</p>

<p><strong>Swiatek, Halep advance</strong></p>

<p>In other women's action, third-seeded Iga Swiatek of Poland and former world number one Simona Halep battled to three-set victories to reach the third round.</p>

<p>Swiatek, the world number four who is the highest seed in the top half of the draw after the late withdrawals of world number one Ashleigh Barty and No. 2 Barbora Krejcikova, dropped the opening set to Ukraine's Anhelina Kalinina but lost just one game over the next two sets to triumph 5-7, 6-0, 6-1.</p>

<p>"I think at the beginning, I was too focused on the conditions. I was a little bit distracted by what was going on with the wind," said Swiatek, who is coming off a title in Doha last month. "I'm pretty glad that I came back and I solved my problems and I could find my rhythm."</p>

<p>Swiatek, who led the first set 3-1 and 4-2 before Kalinina reeled off six games to pocket the set, said she didn't have to change much.</p>

<p>"I just knew I was taking a little bit too much risk in the first set because it was super-windy," she said.</p>

<p>Halep, who lifted the Indian Wells trophy in 2015, defeated Ekaterina Alexandrova 6-2, 4-6, 6-2.</p>
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