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		</div><p>Andy Murray admits he had to win ugly to reach the US Open last 16 after the British number one battled past Italy’s Paolo Lorenzi.</p>
<p>Murray was far from his best in Arthur Ashe Stadium but he dug deep to win 7-6 (7/4) 5-7 6-2 6-3 and book a fourth-round meeting with Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov.</p>
<p>The Scot has still only dropped one set so far this year at Flushing Meadows, but he made 63 unforced errors against Lorenzi – three times as many as he committed in either of his opening rounds.</p>
<p>After a poor second set, however, Murray tightened up in the third and fourth, pulling away from the Italian to seal a routine victory.</p>
<p>“It took me a little bit longer than I would have liked to work things out but I won, got through, and I didn’t play good so I’m happy with that,” Murray said.</p>
<p>“He’s ranked 40 in the world. He’s pretty good, so I expected a tough match. I expected long rallies.</p>
<p>“I’m just disappointed with the amount of errors I made. I was quite impatient at times. That cost me in the first and second sets.</p>
<p>“When I was more patient and waited for the right balls to go for I played much, much better and dictated more of the points. I wasn’t going for too much.”</p>
<p>Lorenzi had won only two grand slam matches in his whole career before this tournament, but the 34-year-old claimed his first ATP title in July and had knocked out France’s Gilles Simon on Thursday.</p>
<p>“Maybe it’s a matter of confidence,” Murray said.<br />
“When you win an ATP title at that age, maybe you realise, ‘I’m much better than I thought’. Sometimes that can happen as well.”</p>
<p>Britain now has three players – Murray, Kyle Edmund and Johanna Konta – in the last 16 of a grand slam for the first time since 1964 when Michael Sangster, Graham Stilwell and Roger Taylor made it through in Australia.</p>
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