Murray progress continues

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It sets up a meeting with either Nikolay Davydenko or Dmitry Tursunov as the Scot looks to reach his second successive final in Doha having been runner-up to Ivan Ljubicic 12 months ago.

Every game in the first set went with serve, although Murray had to come back from love-30 down to rescue his first trip to the baseline.

The Scot's first break point did not come until he got advantage in the seventh but he was not able to finish the job and Johansson recovered.

A service game to love lifted Britain's number one in the next and the pair played out the set to a tie-break.

Murray struck early by winning the first point off his Swedish opponent's serve and from there on was never behind, eventually winning the tie-break 7-4 in 61 minutes.

That seemed to give him the impetus he needed and Murray closed out the match in a further 21 minutes as Johansson collapsed.

The Swede was broken for the first time in the second game of the next set as Murray claimed a 2-0 lead and from that point it was downhill all the way as two further breaks saw the 20-year-old British star race to victory.