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The right elbow injury prompted Murray to withdraw from last month's Miami Open and he also missed Britain's recent quarterfinal loss to France in the Davis Cup. The world No. 2 committed many unforced errors, and had needed to win three consecutive games to make a comeback from a 4-5 deficit in the third set to seal victory.

"It was a tough first match", Murray told Sky Sports.

Three-time Grand Slam victor Wawrinka never found his touch or range and conceded match point when his backhand pass - normally one of the best shots in men's tennis - clipped the net and went out. "We'll see the shots that I chose and what I would do differently", said Murray.

He was broken in the first game of his first round clash with Luxembourg's Gilles Muller but the Scottish top seed recovered to win 7-5, 7-5 at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin.

Murray took his time to come to grips with the clay surface, winning his first clay title in Munich in 2015, 10 years into his professional career. "It was very tiring for me, the first clay of the season". Albert Ramos, who defeated Andy Murray on Thursday, will face Marin Cilic, who is playing much better than he did in the first quarter of the season.

"When you're coming back from not really serving for a few weeks, it's I think pretty normal to show some rust", he said. That s only going to get better. The Croatian reached the last eight after beating No 9 Tomas Berdych 6-2 7-6 (0).

Wednesday's later matches saw world No.11 Grigor Dimitrov, the eighth seed, suffer an unexpected 4-6 6-3 6-2 defeat at the hands of German qualifier Jan-Lennard Struff.


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