Murray triumphs over Johansson to progress into third round in Toronto

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The world number nine and eighth seed, who was making his first singles appearance since losing in the quarter-final of Wimbledon to eventual champion Rafael Nadal, won the first set with a decisive break in the 10th game.

The 21-year-old from Dunblane struggled with his serve throughout, dropping his opening two service games in the second set, before demonstrating his now familiar resilience to triumph over the 1999 champion of this event in one hour 38 minutes.

Murray: Into round three

The Scot is now scheduled to meet Switzerland's Stanislas Wawrinka later today. Wawrinka, the world number 10, has won three out of five career meetings with Murray and was a 6-3 6-4 second-round winner over Russia's former world number one Marat Safin.

Murray was level at one-all in career meetings with world number 64 Johansson prior to the second round contest - he had received a bye in the opening round.

He had won the most recent encounter in Qatar earlier this year in straight sets en route to his fifth ATP Tour title, while the 33-year-old Swede won at Queen's in 2005.

Murray missed an opportunity to break in Johansson's opening service game as the first set went with serve until the sixth game.

The Swede, who reached a career-high ranking of seventh in 2002, capitalised on his first break-point chance but Murray immediately broke back.

Murray then held serve and broke Johansson for the second successive service game to clinch the first set.

The Scot's second serve continued to trouble him, with Johansson breaking in the opening game of the second set before holding serve.

Johansson then claimed a 3-0 lead with a further break, but relinquished full control of the set by allowing Murray to immediately break back.

Murray held serve for the first time in the set in the fifth game and his comeback was complete when he broke Johansson again in the sixth.

After each player held serve, Murray won another service game to go 5-4 up before breaking Johansson for a fifth time in the match to secure the triumph.