Easy for Murray in Montreal

Andy Murray cruised to a 6-4 6-2 win over Jeremy Chardy in the second round of the Rogers Cup in Montreal today in his first match since losing to Andy Roddick in the Wimbledon semi-finals.

The world number three wrapped up victory in his first meeting with the Frenchman in one hour 34 minutes to set up a third-round match with Juan Carlos Ferrero or Gael Monfils.

Service breaks in the opening games of each set paved the way for the Scot, who could move up to second in the rankings, ahead of Raphael Nadal, if the Spaniard loses tomorrow and Murray makes the last four.

Ferrero recorded a thumping win over Lleyton Hewitt in the first round, brushing aside the Australian 6-1 6-4.

Eighth seed Nikolay Davydenko won his second-round match against Paul-Henri Mathieu in straight sets, but did not have things all his own way as he was taken to two tie-breaks.

The Russian ground out a 7-6 (7/4) 7-6 (7/2) win in two hours four minutes.

Elsewhere in round one, Victor Hanescu beat Jurgen Melzer 6-4 6-3, 15th seed Tommy Robredo beat Alex Bogomolov Jr 6-4 6-2 and John Isner defeated Jesse Levine 6-3 6-4.