Coming up shortly is the big one - LIVE coverage of Andy Murray's third round battle against Feliciano Lopez.

MURRAY 7-6(2) 6-4 6-2 LOPEZ. An impressive performance from the Scot. Although shaky in the earlier stages, he eventually cruised through the gears and his level rose accordingly to record another convincing victory and book his place in the second week of the Australian Open for the sixth consecutive year.

MURRAY 7-6(2) 6-4 5-2 LOPEZ. Another routine hold from Lopez, and Murray will serve for the match.

MURRAY 7-6(2) 6-4 5-1 LOPEZ. Murray slams down three aces in one service game and continues his single-minded march towards the "W", without so much as breaking step.

BEAK - MURRAY 7-6(2) 6-4 4-1 LOPEZ. Murray has stopped relying on his slice as much and the depths off his driven groundstrokes have proved the difference in this final set. He easily dissembles another Lopez service game by simply keeping a supreme length. U

MURRAY 7-6(2) 6-4 3-1 LOPEZ. More rasping first serves bring Murray yet another easy hold of serve. Cruising.

MURRAY 7-6(2) 6-4 2-1 LOPEZ. Lopez slams down some first serves to easily record his first hold of the set.

MURRAY 7-6(2) 6-4 2-0 LOPEZ. Murray throws down some first serves and rapidly consolidates his early break with a supesonic hold of his own.

BREAK - MURRAY 7-6(2) 6-4 1-0 LOPEZ. Much like in the second set, Murray nabs a break at the very beginning of the set. More questionable deicisions from the Spaniard, but the break was driven by a clinically perfect, measured dipping passing shot from Murray at 0-30

MURRAY 7-6(2) 6-4 LOPEZ. Murray moves up two sets to love.

MURRAY 7-6(2) 5-4 LOPEZ. Murray has dropped only seven points on serve thus far in this set thus far, and on reurn he has won only 8 points despite the break. Right on cue, two more completely dominant service games leave Murray serving for the second set at 5-4.

MURRAY 7-6(2) 4-3. LOPEZ. A similarly routine hold from Lopez keeps him tight enough to the fourth seed.

MURRAY 7-6(2) 4-2 LOPEZ. Murray easily consolidates his break with another serve-dominated, routine hold.

MURRAY 7-6(2) 3-2 LOPEZ. Another effortless serve-crushing, forehand-smashing service game from Lopez that only serves to make further mockery of the Spaniard's first offering in set two.

MURRAY 7-6(2) 3-1 LOPEZ. Up 40-0, Murray randomly attempts a Martina Hingis-esque unnecessarily cruel dropshot to lob combination that, unlike Hingis, spectacularly fails. It could have ended up haunting him, but he calmly finishes the game later and holds for 3-1.

MURRAY 7-6(2) 2-1 LOPEZ. A routine hold from Lopez gives him his first game of the set. Despite leading by a set and a break, Murray was positively fuming as he walked to his seat after missing a couple of returns.

BREAK - MURRAY 7-6(2) 1-0 LOPEZ After so diligently and successfully digging himself out of countless holes in the first set, Lopez produces a bizarrely reckless game to hand over the break wrapped in a nice bow. A completely unneccessary double fault proved the final nail in the coffin of that service game.

SET - MURRAY 7-6(2) LOPEZ. After edgily trading for much of the set, Murray finds his clutch in the tiebreak and briefly transcends with a series of brilliant shots – a delicate forehand dropshot followed by a devastating forehand winners then perfect anticipation meeting seamless movement. First set to Murray.

MURRAY 6-6 LOPEZ - A perfectly accurate illustration of Lopez's inconsistency in a string of consecutive points: a hopelessly mis-judged Murray return that landed 3 feet in the baseline, an ace, a service winner, a double fault, a terrible netted routine forehand and then a beauiful drop volley. In the end, Lopez takes the game and a tiebreak it is.

MURRAY 6-5 LOPEZ - After storming to a 40-0 lead with a contrasting mixture of big serving and carving slices, Lopez cuts the lead with a pair of brutal forehands but a tense rally forces out a Spanish error and gives Murray his 6th game of the set.

MURRAY 5-5 LOPEZ. A mixed bag from Lopez again, but he duly holds with relative ease.