Andy Murray receovers from first-round slump to defeat Marco Chiudinelli in Dubai Duty Free Championships Against Berrer, Murray had kept thinking he was going to throw up, and the match came queasily close to getting away from him. Indeed he was the only man among the top eight seeds to lose a set in the opening round as he squeaked through 6-3, 4-6, 6-4. Today was a complete contrast. Murray was always in control, to the point where you might have thought he was a completely different player. The forehand, in particular, was finding its mark as regularly as Phil "The Power" Taylor's darts as he disposed of Chiudinelli 6-3, 6-4 in 82 minutes. That forehand tends to be the barometer of Murray's form and movement, because he can hit the double-fisted backhand in his sleep. When he is in sync, it has become a real weapon. But when he is uncomfortable, as he was against Berrer, he sprays it around like a punctured firehose. Chuidinelli, the Swiss No 3, is a steady player who has no particular strengths of note, although his consistency took him to the verge of the top 50 in 2010. He scored a surprising victory over Nikolay Davydenko, the former world No 3, in the first round here, but never looked likely to back it up here. Murray did not have to save a break point in the match. This performance backed up the comments from Ivan Lendl, made from an ATP Champions Tour event in Florida, in which Lendl said he had failed to see any evidence of a post-Australian Open slump from his new charge. "I did not observe any residual effects from the Australian Open other than positive ones," Lendl told the tournament's website. That's not to say that he's definitely going to go on a tear right now, no-one knows what's going to happen but I didn't notice any signs of him being down or anything like that. "What you have to look at is how Andy lost," Lendl added, when asked about the reverses of fortune that Murray suffered around this time in both 2011 and 2010. He played a tremendous match against Novak. He fought really hard, he showed a lot of guts, whereas last year he just got swiped off the court. If you do your best and give a great fight to your opponent you just go and shake your opponent's hand and say "Good luck next match," and you can feel good about it."