Andy Murraygot his 2016 Olympics account up and running with a victory on Sunday, defeatingViktor Troicki 6-3, 6-2 at the Olympic Tennis Centerin Rio de Janeiro.Great Britain's most promising tennis medal hopecruised to a straight-sets win over Serbia's Troicki and will next face Argentinian Juan Monaco in the second round.After a stuttered start at the Olympic Tennis Center in Barra da Tijuca, Murray found his feet and hit back with vengeance, failing to surrender a single break after his initially nervy beginning.Fellow Briton Kyle Edmund also booked a place in the second round after he defeated Australia's Jordan Thompson, and British Tennis made sure to celebrate their greatest star's triumph:Murray's match got off to a horror start. The Scot gave up his serve at the first time of asking, but he immediately replied with a break of his own to level the opening-set score at one game apiece.From there, the reigning Wimbledon champion smelled blood and won four of the next five games.Troicki's chances of pulling off an Olympic dream all of a sudden appeared out of reach.Despite his slow start, Murray was unforgiving and broke his Serbian foe at two of the next three opportunities, coming close to making it a hat-trick before Troicki saved break point in the fourth game.Following a short respite at 5-2 up, Murray battered Troicki without response to see out the first set, and the BBC's Russell Fuller noted it came in tricky conditions, too:It was Troicki's turn to serve at the beginning of the second set, but that proved to be just about the only instance in which he found himself in the ascendancy, serving with ease to go one game ahead.The following onslaught came without warning, as Murray proceeded to win the next five games in succession. The matchup became so one-sided, in fact, that Murray's attire was of more interest to tennis writer Dan King:The Scot scored a raft of shots he almost had no right to attemptthe kind of shots he was pulling off en route to this year's Wimbledon titleand it was with fervour and ease that he booked a place in the next round.Troicki saved some face by pulling another game back to reduce the deficit to three games, but it was only momentary, as Murray served out to win the second set 6-2 and claim the result.His next opponent, Monaco, throttled Mirza Basic of Bosnia and Herzegovina 6-2, 6-2 to book his place in the second round of the tournament on Saturday. That extra day's rest could come to weigh heavily in their Rio meeting.Murray and Monaco have met on five occasions, per the official ATP World Tour website. Murray won their most recent clash in 2014, and a repeat of that result looks plausible at the Games.
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