Another set rolled through after five minutes, and Tony paddled spastically for a monster, getting his short board into the top of the wave.

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Five minutes later Bentley was again involved when Benni McCarthy half-volleyed high and wide after another enticing cross that Mortem Gamst Pedersen did well to control.

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Murray appeared to have broken the Argentine's resistance when he recovered the deficit in game five but Del Potro hit straight back to break again and sealed the set after 90 minutes with another blistering forehand winner.

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