Double whammy for Murray

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The 20-year-old Scot reported nothing more than a stiff back but he will hope there are no lasting effects as he is due to play Finland's Jarkko Nieminen in the singles on Wednesday.

Having flown in from his victory at the St Petersburg Open, Murray was travelling from the airport to his hotel with coach Brad Gilbert on Monday when his car was involved in a shunt.

Murray said: "I'd never been in a car crash before. There was the driver, me and Brad.

"There was a lot of traffic. The driver did nothing wrong. He just broke and somebody, driving at around 20km/h (about 12mph), bumped into the back of the car. There was a pretty loud bang."

Murray will look to keep alive his bid to reach the Masters Cup on Wednesday against Nieminen.

He will need to reach the quarter-finals and out-perform Tommy Haas, Tommy Robredo and James Blake, who are all ahead of him in the race for the Masters Cup, to book his place in the end-of-season finale in Shanghai.

Earlier today the Murray brothers were knocked out of the first round of the doubles after a 6-1 2-6 11-9 defeat to Jordon Kerr and Andre Sa.

The British duo were well off the pace from the outset, with a woeful first serve success rate of just 40% contributing to their problems.

However, they improved that aspect of their game in the second set and battled back to level things up, only to lose the third set tie-break.