Murray survives scare in Japan Open

World number four Andy Murray suffered a major scare before finally beating a dogged Marcos Baghdatis to reach the second round of the Japan Open on Wednesday in Tokyo.The 24-year-old Briton, fresh from victory at the Thailand Open last week, needed a tough two hours and 33 minutes to see off the big-serving Cypriot 7-6 (7/4), 2-6, 6-4.That was very tough and long. I did a lot of running, especially in the first two sets, said Murray, after only his second win over Baghdatis in five meetings.He said it was difficult to adjust after organisers were forced to close the roof on centre court because of persistent rain.In the second round Murray will take on American Alex Bogomolov Jr, who defeated Jarkko Nieminen of Finland on Tuesday.Meanwhile, Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia, who defeated Baghdatis in the Malaysian Open final, failed to keep the momentum, losing to Dmitry Tursunov of Russia 7-6 (8/6), 6-7 (3/7), 7-5 in just over three hours.In second round action, American fourth seed Mardy Fish whipped Ernests Gulbis of Latvia 6-2, 6-4 to reach the quarter-finals, while Australian Bernard Tomic downed Japans Tatsuma Ito 6-7 (4/7), 6-1, 7-5.Fifth seed Radek Stepanek of the Czech Republic was the 7-5, 6-7 (5/7), 6-1 winner over Marco Chiudinelli of Switzerland.